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The famous professors at Yale have proven that asset allocation accounts for 90% of a portfolio’s return and that stock picking and market timing account for less than 10%. So what a great time to look at how different asset allocations are faring in this market! In 2008 it turns out that asset allocation decisions have [...]
By MARK HULBERT Published: March 9, 2008 in the New York Times INVESTORS collectively spend around $100 billion a year trying to beat the stock market. That’s the finding of a rigorous effort to measure the total costs of Americans’ efforts to surpass the returns they would have received by simply holding a stock index [...]
Analysts often use colorful images to explain how the markets work … or why a particular index or asset class is “behaving” in a certain way. We’ll hear references to the “Goldilocks” economy, a Santa Claus rally, tigers and tea leaves, bubbles and roller-coasters. A single adjective in a Fed speech may dominate headlines and [...]
Winning Funds Share Traits, But the Trick Is Finding Them By JACLYNE BADAL December 3, 2007; Page R1 Today’s article in the Wall Street Journal attempts to help mutual fund investors determine what characteristics a mutual fund had before it began an 8 year streak of beating the S&P. “We started by identifying a group of mutual [...]
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