The impact of missing just a few of the market’s best days can be profound. There’s no proven way to time the market—targeting the best days or movin...
The first two decades of the 21st century have reinforced important lessons for long-term investors. Holding a broadly diversified portfolio can help...
Compared to actively managed funds that seek to “beat” the market by engaging in now-outdated speculative strategies, a more solid solution for sensib...
Market indexes and market index mechanics, you read about them all the time. In Part III of this series, we take a closer look at market index mechan...
Checking an index point at any given time is like dipping your toe in the water to see how the ocean is doing. You may have good reasons to do that to...
Market volatility can be nerve-racking for investors. Reacting emotionally and changing long-term investment strategies in response to short-term decl...
Wall Street strategists and the media are complicit in fueling the myth that the financial markets are predictable - despite overwhelming evidence to...
The lure of getting in at the right time or avoiding the next downturn may tempt even disciplined, long-term investors. The reality of successfully ti...
The US stock market has delivered an average annual return of around 10% since 1926. But short-term results may vary, and in any given period stock re...
A quick online search for “Dow rallies 500 points” yields a cascade of news stories with similar titles, as does a similar search for “Dow drops 500 p...
Sometimes the best, most rigorously developed financial advice is so obvious, it’s become cliché. And yet, investors often end up abandoning this same...