Sentences with phrase «investors than the pain»

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Many investors felt this pain after the 2008 market crash, though those who remained invested at the 2008/2009 lows have more than made their money back in the years since — the S&P 500 Index is up 171 percent since the beginning of 2009.

But more than anyone, Mr. Schäuble has come to embody the consensus that has helped shape European economic policy for years: that the path to sustained economic recovery for financially troubled countries is to slash spending, raise taxes when necessary and win back the trust of bond markets and other investors by displaying commitment to fiscal prudence — even if that process imposes deep economic pain as it plays out.

Throughout the turnaround, Banducci has been at pains to keep investor expectations in check, but his aggressive push on price and services has worked faster than most would have thought.

But the important thing is to how to overcome this pain, and emerge as a better investor than before.

One of the key tenets of behavioral finance is loss aversion theory — the idea that investors feel the pain of losses much more acutely than they feel the pleasure derived from gains.

On the S&P 500 chart, such timing maneuvers — while ultimately counterproductive from a pure profit standpoint (because the investor is buying in at about a 12 % higher price than where he or she sold)-- could almost be understood, given they would have spared an investor the emotional pain of the bear market.

Investors are more sensitive to losses than they are to investment gains, which leads them to sell holdings prematurely in an attempt to stem the emotional pain of a temporary financial loss.

That means our hypothetical investor with average annual returns of 15 % with a portfolio volatility of only 10 %, if he looks at his portfolio daily, will still feel far more pain than gratification.

Falling inflation and steady growth have meant that periods of economic turmoil have been shorter than expected, causing less pain to investors.

The number one reason why investors aren't able to stick to an investing strategy through thick and thin is that psychologically speaking, the pain you feel from losses are much more than the joy you feel from gains [6].

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