Stock market valuations are at historical highs and we are more than nine years into the current bull market. It stands to reason that the bull market won’t continue indefinitely.
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.
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