Sentences with phrase «average retail investor»

Most of the current problems exist in exotic parts of the bond market; average retail investors don't have much exposure to the problems there, but only less - experienced institutional investors.

In general, average retail investors reach for yield at the wrong time, and Wall Street is more than happy to facilitate that through structured notes and other high yielding investments where the risk is greater than the excess yield.

4) Average retail investors don't understand regulated investments well enough to invest in them.

How will the average retail investor react when he discovers that he is now underwater by about two percent, after buying the unstoppable S&P 500 just a month ago?

If you're an average retail investor just looking for some low - cost index funds, you don't need to spend your day glued to the stock ticker.

If Wall Street can't even pick a side on a stock like Tesla, how is the average retail investor supposed to determine which direction the stock is headed?

In fact, the average retail investor doesn't even need to touch Tesla stock at all.

It is dominated by more professional players and institutions, making it a bit more complicated for the average retail investor.

Needless to say, the average retail investor will not be looking at those share classes, but they are not the target audience anyway.

I strongly believe that the average retail investor is being under - serviced by the financial industry.

If you're a new investor who's still learning the ropes, this is not the place for you: you'll be much better served by a broker like Scottrade, whose focus is the average retail investor.

If I had to suggest two attitudinal adjustments for the average retail investor, I would encourage patience and a little courage.

Unfortunately, the average retail investor usually figures out that their bonds are a bad investment after the market has already rallied, he says.

But the bottom line is that for the average retail investor a bond mutual fund or ETF is a better way to go: You get diversification and easy execution at a cheap price.

Though the potential for loss is greater, these funds have professional managers who are more likely than the average retail investor to generate substantial profits by buying and selling cutting - edge stocks and risky debt securities.

This is why momentum investing is more prevalent with institutional investors rather than the average retail investor.

Dalbar research shows that over the past 30 years ended 2015, the S&P 500 index produced an annual return of 10.4 %, while the average retail investor earned only 3.7 %.

The investment fees extracted by the financial securities industry from the average retail investor are grossly excessive.

For the average retail investor investing in ETFs, the bonds are liquidi enough that pricing of NAVs is fairly clean.

I think for the average retail investor they see that they can actually buy into a stock now because of the split and the media helps encourage that ideal.

In the case of CFDs, leverage quickly results in losing control over market developments and makes it all but impossible for an average retail investor to anticipate the likelihood of losses and, consequently, chances of success, BaFin's draft project read.

Further, while we would in no way espouse this model as an optimal framework, not least of which because the stock / bond diversification framework ignores the myriad opportunities available from other markets and asset classes, this simple portfolio outperformed the average retail investor by 8 % per year over the same period (See Dalbar, 2011).

«The average retail investor is better off using Canadian - listed ETFs so they're not getting burned by currency spreads,» says Alan Fustey, portfolio manager at Index Wealth Management in Winnipeg.

However, given that investors are limited to investing in a small number of funds, the outperformance figures better represent replicable performance by the average retail investor.

Add in the conversion covenants associated with the bonds and we can see why converts usually don't make it to the average retail investor's portfolio.

Furthermore, knowledgeable and efficient foreign exchange trading occurs at dollar volumes that are far out of reach of the average retail investor.

It's not an exciting stock (well actually they are units); not much in the way of corporate communication, some complicated restructuring going on (BNS Holdings» assets sold to Steel Excel, both SPLP holdings) for tax reasons that probably don't mean much to the average retail investor.

In general with stock ETFs that trade very liquid markets this has historically not been much of an issue, as the creation / redemption mechanism on these types of assets is pretty robust: it's consequences on typical spread is much more important for the average retail investor.

At first I was thinking that this CAPE is pretty cool stuff — and I still do, but I'm also wondering, «what does the average retail investor do with this?»

All investors can be victims of their emotions, but none suffer worse than the average retail investor.

The average retail investor pays about 0.90 % in bid - offer spread on municipal and 0.64 % on corporate bonds, according to S&P 1.

TrakInvest was built to empower the average retail investor with «crowdsourced» sentiment tools to create a level playing field removing the information asymmetry that has plagued them for so many years.

TrakInvest began as Bobby's vision during his private equity days when he saw the existence of information asymmetry driven by the fact that the institutional investor had superior information and analytical tools at their disposal vis - a-vis the average retail investor.

The ETN provider is approved by the Swedish FSA (Finansinspektionen), and average retail investors can purchase the ETNs which are listed and sold on Nasdaq Nordic in Stockholm.