While the idea of diversification sounds simple and rudimentary, middle
class investors fail to pool their funds accordingly.
Not exact matches
A number of institutional
investors who entered the asset
class this decade have become disenchanted and are abandoning venture capital as they have
failed to achieve the spectacular returns of the 1990s.
In such environments,
investors myopically focus on the last one, three, and / or five years of market returns and are disappointed when anything — diversified portfolios, different asset
classes, contrarian strategies, etc. —
fail to outperform «the market.»
Meridian Small Cap Growth (MSAGX) Small growth stocks have been described as «a
failed asset
class» because of the inability of most professional
investors to control the sector's downside well enough to benefit from its upside.
Investors seem to be programmed by nature to
fail at investing, pouring money into last year's hot stock, industry or asset
class.
As millions of middle -
class people suffer
failed retirements, more and more
investors will lose confidence not only in the investment research that has long been discredited but in all investment research.
A: ETFs are now available for just about every niche sector and exotic asset
class, so it shouldn't be surprising when some of these
fail to attract
investor dollars.
However, it
fails to describe how we need to change the investing advice promoted to middle -
class investors to escape this crisis (this...
An
investor group called Sunlot Holdings is seeking to revive the
failed Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has made a deal with the claimants in two
class action lawsuits on a proposed settlement.
I was the lead lawyer for the state against Arthur Andersen, the accounting giant, for the
failed audits of the Baptist Foundation of Arizona, where there were 11,000
investors who lost their retirements, and we were able to return $ 217 million to the victims, mostly working -
class and senior citizens.