There are generally two schools of thought about how to choose stocks that may be worth investing in. Value investors generally buy stocks that appear to be bargains relative to the company’s intrinsic worth. Growth investors prefer companies that are growing quickly, and are less concerned with undervalued companies than with finding companies and industries […]
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Past Performance is Not an Indication of Future Results
“While results vary from asset class to asset class and from time period to time period, experience suggests that for predicting future values, historical data appear to be quite useful with respect to standard deviations (risk), reasonably useful for correlations, and virtually useless for expected returns.” —WILLIAM F. SHARPE, 1990 Nobel Prize winner in […]
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Is There a Gender-gap in Investing?
There is a plethora of research suggesting that, at least at the individual level, women may be better investors than men. For example, a major financial institution looked at over 8 million client accounts and found that women outperformed men by 0.4%, while another popular study, conducted by Warwick Business School found an even greater […]
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Lump Sum vs. Dollar Cost Averaging: Which is Better?
Some people go swimming by diving into the pool; others prefer to edge into the water gradually, especially if the water’s cold. A decision about putting money into an investment can be somewhat similar. Is it best to invest your money all at once, putting a lump sum into something you believe will do well? […]