Buy Low and Sell High: Simple but Not Easy
Buy low, sell high…maybe the most obvious axiom in investing. It seems so obvious, yet in practice, most investors have difficulty buying the worst-performing assets or selling the best-performing assets.
Buy low, sell high…maybe the most obvious axiom in investing. It seems so obvious, yet in practice, most investors have difficulty buying the worst-performing assets or selling the best-performing assets.
“Diversify your portfolio!” implored the well-meaning investment advisor. Over the years, you have likely heard this phrase many times and from many sources, including me. ‘Diversification’ has been drilled into
A decline in stock prices during a bout of market volatility often elicits the comment that “this is a buying opportunity because markets always bounce back”. From a historical perspective,
On the 40th anniversary[1] of the launch of the First Index Investment Trust (now the Vanguard 500 Index Fund), it is interesting to note how the original premise of index
A recent study conducted by Dimensional Fund Advisors assessed the performance of actively managed mutual funds by comparing fund performance to the performance predicted by the Fama/French five factor model.
A well-written recent New York Times article seeks to elucidate the causes of investor (mis)behavior through recent research into behavioral finance. In the article, the author, Gary Belsky, details five
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