Sentences with phrase «hot fund»

This is in part due to the unfortunate habit of private investors to jump onto an investment bandwagon and buy into hot funds at the top of the market.

I especially like the discussion of avoiding the impact of hot fund flows.

Index investor +15 %; sector fund and hot fund investor — 54 %.

The best quote comes from Ken French when discussing the constant need for newspapers and magazines to celebrate hot fund managers: «Put me on the cover and you're not selling anything.»

Of course, you could also get lucky and buy the next hot fund right before it explodes.

For example, if ABC Fund had decent returns for five years, then started getting dismal returns, it would be replaced by XYZ Fund - the current hot fund.

Neil Murphy says that high costs and bad decisions — things like chasing hot funds or panicking during market crashes — doom most investors to subpar returns.

Bogle's conclusion says it all: Index investor +15 %; sector fund and hot fund investor — 54 %.

It was a year of increasing investment, strong exit markets, attractive returns and hot fund - raising activity.

Never chase the part of the market that was last year's hot part or last year's hot fund.

To see what I mean, consider this: If you had invested in the hottest fund of 1987, it would have been Oppenheimer 90 - 10, which gained 93.5 %.

In my opinion, Carhart's research counsels skepticism toward those studies that claim you could have beaten the market over time by investing in the hottest funds of the previous year.

The investigators have people buying the hottest funds when their prices reach a peak.

Not unlike the hot stove — hot funds are just as dangerous.

Keep in mind that hot funds (and stocks) are not likely to stay hot and there's a good chance that it took on extra risk to get the eye - popping return.

Rodgers says to beware of other types of money managers showing you «simulated» returns from a selection of hot funds.

The 69 % difference is between the index investor at +15 % and the hot fund investor at — 54 %.

The regret you feel from chasing a hot fund or stock becomes even more painful when you hear strangers boasting about their successes — on television, online, at the next party you go to.

I'm just guessing here but I think one of the biggest mistakes investors make is chasing hot funds / etfs.

Mutual fund investors who think they can make money by chasing the hottest fund are panning the same overworked streams.

So instead of dwelling on past mistakes — failing to get an earlier jump on saving, buying into a hot fund just before it hit the wall, whatever — celebrate the things you did right: signing up for your 401 (k), performing a retirement check - up, refinancing your mortgage to take advantage of lower interest rates.

In other words, over the long - term, the hot fund will end up with returns that are about average.

Yet sector fund investors, similar to the hot fund investors I described earlier, poured billions of dollars in the funds as they soared, and their annual return averaged — 12.1 %, a cumulative loss of 54 % of their capital, too.

This is because they usually just use it to steer money into the subaccount managers that are on a temporary hot streak (AKA «chasing hot funds,» so you'll always be buying high and selling low).