Not exact matches
So,
why do
investors feel so bad when they
buy a net - net
and it is «dead money» in the sense it only returns 8 % to 10 % a year over the 5 or more years while they
hold the stock?
That's
why Buy -
and -
Hold can never work for the long - term
investor.
Drawing on his own varied experience as an economist, financial adviser,
and successful
investor, Malkiel shows
why, despite recent advice to the country from so - called experts in the wake of the financial crisis, an individual who
buys over time
and holds a low - cost internationally diversified index of securities is still likely to exceed the performance of portfolio carefully picked by professionals using sophisticated analytical techniques.
I'm going to explain
why a
buy and hold strategy is useful for some
investors and a good strategy at certain periods of time.
Buy -
and -
Hold ignores the effects of
investor emotions (this is
why Buy -
and - Holders don't adjust their allocations in response to valuation swings, which are caused by emotion swings).
We know about an investing strategy that beats
Buy -
and -
Hold in 102 out of 110 time - periods, an investing strategy that permits us to obtain far higher returns at dramatically less risk, an investing strategy that permits us all to retire years sooner
and that would bring us out of this economic crisis if we could share it with millions of middle - class
investors (if people could switch to an investment strategy that would put their retirement plans back on track, they would feel free to start spending again
and businesses could start hiring again),
and our first reaction is to come up with convoluted arguments as to
why the best thing to do is to AVOID learning more about it
and to AVOID getting the word out to the millions of middle - class people whose lives we have destroyed with our promotion of
Buy -
and -
Hold.
I believe that the reason
why this concern evidences itself so often is that the popularity of
buy -
and -
hold causes many
investors to
hold it to a lower standard than alternative strategies.
Proof Two is that even many big - name
Buy -
and -
Hold advocates on occasion present a compelling case for Valuation - Informed Indexing
and a compelling case for
why Buy -
and -
Hold can never work for the long - term
investor.
But
why read articles like, «Ten Undervalued Large Cap Stocks with Growth Potential,» «Nine Stocks to
Buy and Hold Forever,» «Eight Stocks that are Taking Off, Don't Miss Out,» «Seven Hidden Gens Among Small Caps,» «Six Stocks for Income
and Growth,» «Five Energy Stocks that are Poised to Surge,» Four Titanic Stocks that Every
Investor Should Own,» «Three Turnaround Stocks with Potential for Large Capital Gains,» «Two Stocks with Breakthrough Technologies,»
and «The One Stock that You Should Own for the Next Decade.»
Why is it that it is only in recent years that large numbers of
investors have begun to wonder if
Buy -
and -
Hold is dead?
We're taking a look at how to diversify your cryptocurrency portfolio;
why it's important
and how some savvy
investors in the past few years have created value not by
buying bitcoin
and sitting on it, but by actively using it
and taking advantage of opportunities to
buy,
hold and trade in altcoins.
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