But I'm an absolute believer that the risks in real estate for
buy and hold investors doing it the right way (cash flow instead of appreciation) are as safe as any other investment around..
Not exact matches
So for
buy -
and -
hold investors, these findings are particularly encouraging: Get your rest, ignore the temptation to trade
and you can
do just fine.
Schwab Equity Ratings
and the general
buy /
hold / sell guidance are not personal recommendations for any particular
investor or client
and do not take into account the financial, investment or other objectives or needs of,
and may not be suitable for, any particular
investor or client.
Of course, there are always exceptions, but on a
buy -
and -
hold basis, they don't appear as attractive to me for the average
investor that doesn't have a high level of knowledge about macroeconomics
and usage trends of metals versus inventory levels, for example.
To back up his case that a «know - nothing»
investor can
do fine with
buy and hold, Buffett cites a farm he acquired in the 1980s,
and also an investment he made in a New York apartment block in the early»90s.
You don't have to be a
buy -
and -
hold investor to benefit from a deeper look at the stocks you trade.
With a 23.8 % tax being applied every time you switch investments, you must overcome this capital - cutting that the
buy -
and -
hold investor does not have to endure.
If stocks enter into a new bear market in 2015, it would obviously bad news for traditional «
buy and hold»
investors who must hope
and pray that stocks continue on an upward trajectory forever (hint: they don't).
Also, if a mutual fund is constantly
buying and selling shares, the
investor will face a lot of short - term capital gains, which will hurt them on their taxes.As
investors, we want to stick to
buy and hold strategies... so we would hope our mutual funds
do the same.
They don't want to see the political frictions that we have seen develop in recent years as the result of the continued promotion of
Buy -
and -
Hold for 36 years after we learned that there is precisely zero chance that it could ever produce good long - term results for even a single
investor.
If you are a committed, disciplined
buy -
and -
hold investor with no sensitivity to cyclical market fluctuations (even those as large as the 50 % losses of 2000 - 2002
and 2007 - 2009),
and you fully recognize the depth of cyclical risks that regularly accompanies that strategy, I don't encourage a deviation from that discipline based on my analysis of market risk.
So what
does a price to peak earnings multiple above 19 mean for a
buy and hold investor?
Though I certainly wouldn't advise it as a strategy,
investors would have historically outperformed the S&P 500 with much less risk than a
buy -
and -
hold simply by selling stocks when the S&P reached 19 times earnings
and staying in T - bills until the P / E reverted to 15, even if it took years to
do so.
So, why
do investors feel so bad when they
buy a net - net
and it is «dead money» in the sense it only returns 8 % to 10 % a year over the 5 or more years while they
hold the stock?
And while I think both stocks have the potential to
do well for
investors, it's my view that the untapped potential of Venmo makes PayPal
Holdings the better
buy today.
Because of Cisco's fast - growing dividend
and reasonable valuation, I think long - term
investors could
do well
buying at today's market price,
holding for the long - term,
and reinvesting dividends along the way.
With a 23.8 % tax being applied every time you switch investments, you must overcome this capital - cutting that the
buy -
and -
hold investor does not have to endure.
Because of CVS's fast - growing dividend
and reasonable valuation, I think long - term
investors could
do well
buying at today's market price,
holding for the long - term,
and reinvesting dividends along the way.
I didn't lose nearly as much as a
buy -
and -
hold investor would have.
You
do not need to be a «
buy and hold»
investor, but active management should relate to risk control rather than market timing.
Nearly half a century of working with
investors has taught me this: Many people who try
buy and hold succeed, while most of those who try timing (particularly those who
do it themselves) fail.
If you
buy a bond
and hold onto it until it matures, which many
investors do, rising rates won't have any effect on the income you receive.
It validates the concept of a «crowded trade,» one that offered high returns in the past, may presently offer low returns to a «
buy and hold»
investor, but will deliver negative returns in the near future, because the holders of the trade are relying on the trade to deliver positive returns in the short run,
and will bail if it doesn't happen.
Even if a trader
does not meet Interactive Brokers» minimum trading requirement, the monthly fee is so low that it is possible that a
buy and hold investor could benefit from the de minimis trade fees.
Very few
investors have the discipline to
buy and hold stocks to the same degree they
do so with index ETFs or mutual funds either.
One of the things that I like about analytically valid SWR research is that it helps the middle - class
investor seeking to follow a
Buy -
and -
Hold strategy to
do so.
It doesn't make sense to be a
buy and hold investor in this type of market.
If those shareholders are true
buy -
and -
hold investors — which is the right way to
do it — that is the only expense they will pay to own a stock for years to come.
But
investors willing to
do a little research on their own should eschew
buying the ETFs
and should instead use their
holdings as a convenient stock screener.
«For
buy -
and -
hold investors, it seems not only unfair but foolish to pay 20 — 30 % more for a liquidity premium that you don't intend to use.»
Those who have listened
and taken heed to his advice have
done well in the wild markets over the past four years, while
buy and hold investors have ridden the proverbial price roller coaster to zero returns or worse.
As such, I think long - term
investors will likely
do well
buying at today's market price,
holding for the long - term,
and reinvesting dividends along the way (either selectively or automatically).
If the ETF disclosed its
holdings frequently enough so that arbitrage could take place, there'd be no reason to
buy the ETF: smart
investors would simply let the fund manager
do all of the research
and then wait for the disclosure of his or her best ideas.
Long - term
buy -
and -
hold investors tend to analyze in the same or highly similar ways as
do control
investors, distress
investors, credit analysts
and first
and second stage venture capitalists.
Exchange - traded funds (ETFs) are one of Wall Street's best innovations: They allow individual
investors to
buy and hold a whole portfolio of stocks or bonds,
and pay very low expenses to
do so.
What
did a
buy -
and -
hold investor get owning SPY?
The
buy -
and -
hold investor almost always
does better; the only exception that may exist are value
investors who have learned to resist price trends, painful as that may be.
Their cash management account features that will appeal to
buy -
and -
hold investors who value service over commission
and do not plan to frequently trade.
I find all of this concerning because you sound like a reasonably well - versed,
buy -
and -
hold stock
investor doing the majority of the
buy -
and - sell research yourself.
We're
buy -
and -
hold investors and I'm the one whose always telling our adviser what to
do.
The
buy and hold strategy is something that new bond
investors are advised to
do and in case you
buy the bonds when the interest rates are high, the
buy and hold strategy can prove more profitable than any other bond investment strategy.
Having said that, I
do believe these are all quality acquisitions,
and that these stocks could be good baseline stocks for anyone's dividend growth portfolio, provided you are a long - term, «
buy and hold»
investor.
Because of Nike's fast - growing dividend
and reasonable valuation, I think long - term
investors could
do well
buying at today's market price,
holding for the long - term,
and reinvesting dividends along the way.
If an
investor buys stock ABC at 4.50 / share
and holds the stock while it dips to 4.25 / share,
and if the stock
did not pay a dividend, then the
investor has experienced a negative return on the stock.
To be a successful
investor, you don't just «
buy and hold,» you «
buy and watch closely.»
The disciplined
buy -
and -
hold investors would have pretty much tracked the fund return over the different time frames (I'm simplifying a bit here) but among the performance chasers there would have been
investors who
did better than the fund returns
and investors who also earned far less.
These are not
do - or - die decisions,
and ultimately most of us are long - term
buy and hold investors.
What I like about
buy -
and -
hold is that it tends to match what the average
investor can
do.
Yet many of his followers portray Bogle as believing that it is not necessary for
investors to change their stock allocations in response to big price changes (
and Bogle has
done little to change the impression thereby created that he believes that
Buy -
and -
Hold Investing can work for long - term
investors).
The active traders make no money
and neither
do the
investors who
buy and hold.