Not exact matches
The 2013
Best of the Hot List features articles about the difficulty of trying to time the market consistently, why the simplest approach to investing is often the best, and how the market is always a «stock - pickers» mar
Best of the Hot List features articles about the difficulty of trying to
time the market consistently, why the simplest approach to investing is often the
best, and how the market is always a «stock - pickers» mar
best, and how the market is always a «
stock -
pickers» market.
Of course, his big victory merely demonstrated something that has been documented
time and again over the past forty - plus years, which is that investors are usually
better off if they just buy «index» funds and steer clear of «expert»
stock pickers.
These are some of the «
best»
stock pickers in the world — they have effectively limitless
time, resources, and likely access to private information that we'll never have.
But I've been
good industry and
stock picker over
time, and I don't care about volatility so much.
In real terms,
stock performance over
time can be mostly explained by inflation rates alone, even if you regard yourself as a particularly
good stock picker.
In 2008, he was named # 1
Stock Picker for U.S. Media by the Financial
Times and was second in the Wall Street Journal's
Best on...
Stock pickers may spend a little
time here and there reading over some company's financial documents and comparing a few P / E ratios, but they will always be amateurs at
best.
The bottom - line is that even the
best stock pickers tend to lag the market over
time.