Don’t you wish you would have purchased gold early in 2009? Remember? The global credit crisis? The “world is going to hell in a handbasket” scenario? Many speculators rushed to buy gold, and the price shot up, and up some more. The airwaves were jammed with talking heads reporting record profits from investing in gold, and there were advertisements a… Read more →
Category: Investing
And what about “The Taper”?
Things were going along pretty well this year, until Fed chairman Bernanke indicated that he might “taper” the bond buying stimulus, causing market makers and hedge fund managers to decide to take profits. As a result, most investment assets lost value. Read more →
Investment newsletter scam.
Why do people think investing is easy? For a variety of reasons investors sometimes draw incorrect conclusions regarding investment strategies. In many cases it is difficult, or impossible to know if an apparently successful method was, in fact the cause of the successful, or unsuccessful outcome. Appearances can be deceiving. Consider the hypothetical case of the fraudulent investment newsletter writer. … Read more →
Investor behavior.
A study done by Dalbar, Inc., a financial services research firm, found that most investors who move in and out of their investments have a much lower long-term total return than those who employ a buy and hold strategy. The study, entitled the Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavior, examines real investor returns from January, 1984 to December, 2000. Read more →