They require a level of analysis and research that's beyond
what most individual investors are willing or capable of doing.
Not exact matches
And if I'm an
individual investor that can't devote every waking hour to looking for mis - pricing,
what are the chances that I'm going to do better than
most of these professionals?
For years now, growing interest rate spreads between countries have been the main focus of professional
investors, but
what most individual traders do not know is that the absolute value of interest rates is not
what's important -
what really matters are the expectations of where interest rates are headed in the future.
Unfortunately,
most individual investors and even
most professional money managers don't have the time or inclination to do the kind of legwork required to get the goods on
what is really happening inside a company.
While
most media outlets only cover the popular investment theories of the day, TSI Network goes beyond the headlines to get to the heart of
what really affects you — the
individual investor.
When asked
what keeps
most individual investors from succeeding he had a simple answer: «The primary cause of failure is that they pay too much attention to
what the stock market is doing currently.»
What you're supposed to do is determine a mix of viable asset classes that fits an
individual investor's life, and then either fund it with something very diversified like mutual funds, ETFs, or index funds (the CFA program likes index funds, as
most advisers can't even pick open - ended mutual funds, or ETFs, well enough to beat an index fund).
While large - scale professional
investors may swing back and forth between favoring domestic or foreign stocks, the question for
most individual investors is
what role, if any, international stocks should play in a long - term investment strategy.