Bitcoin (BTC) has minted many millionaires overnight list in the past, since it has
outperformed most asset classes.
It's likely going to
outperform most asset classes over the next few years, so I wouldn't suggest turning your back on it just yet.
Not exact matches
This younger crowd also seems the
most pessimistic: only 13 % said they expected stocks to
outperform other
asset classes in 2013, and 59 % said they were planning to make their investments more conservative this year.
Going forward, the situation is uncertain, and it's at times like this, when no one really knows which
asset classes will
outperform or lag, that diversification makes the
most sense.
It means that
most market participants are making an active «bet» that the commodity - driven Canadian market will
outperform all other global markets and
asset classes by a substantial margin.
One of the lumpers» counter-arguments to slicing and dicing is that it is betting that small - cap and value stocks will
outperform the total stock market in the future, and that
most of the excess returns for the small - cap and value
asset classes were generated during a few relatively short periods in the past.
There seems to be a reasonable argument for gold as an
asset class, but I have to agree with tedk81 and Buffett — a sound value strategy is likely to
outperform gold over
most reasonable time periods, especially those that start with gold at a multi-year high.
Index funds are a strong choice for any
asset class as they minimize costs while
outperform most of their competitive active funds.
Bitcoin is probably the
most popular cryptocurrency on the market as the coin has
outperformed every other
asset class.