Strategies & Info
The Cost of Not Staying Invested
I received some wonderful statistics from Dimensional Fund Advisors which helps demonstrate the importance of “sitting on one’s hands”. Specifically, the annualized compound return of the S&P/TSX Composite Index from January 1st, 1980 until December 31st, 2007 was 10.53%. This is a pretty healthy rate of return and remember this is over 28 years, nearly [...]
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Misstatements In The Market
There are many misstatements about the markets that slip under the radar. Here are two prime examples:
“Wall street is in a selling mood as stocks move down today.”
Since there must be someone willing to buy the stocks that get sold, this doesn’t make much sense. What mood were the buyers in? Really all you can [...]
