Chart of the Month – Feb 2022
Category: Investing » Market History
Market declines are never enjoyable in the moment. But these kinds of intra-year pull backs are normal when looking at market history.
Still Searching for the One?
Category: Investing » Market History
You do not need to pick the next big winner in order to have a successful investment experience. As a matter of fact, behaving as if this were possible is an almost certain way to have a terrible investment experience. What are the hallmarks of a more successful approach?
Inflation Aware Investing
Category: Investing » Market History
You know the old saying, “What goes up must come down.” Currently everything seems to be going up at the same time.
10 Obstacles to Investing – and How to Overcome Them
Category: Investing » Market History
In the following article David draws on his years of experience talking with investors and academics alike to address some common hesitations all investors face from time to time.
My Top 9 + 1 from Morgan Housel’s The Psychology of Money
Category: Investing » Market History
Morgan Housel, author of The Psychology of Money, spent some time with us last month. Here are my takeaways.
Equilibrium Markets in the Time of COVID
Category: Investing » Market History
Over the years, Foster Group has utilized a number of mutual funds and exchange traded funds managed by Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA). DFA was founded in 1981 on the idea of making academic investment research and empirically based portfolio management accessible to investors. In this article, Professor Kenneth French describes how markets responded to the events surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.
What’s Your Best Buy: Firm Foundation or Castle In the Air?
If an investor could discover the true worth of a company, a piece of real estate or even an idea, where “true worth” equated to the future value or price that others would pay, success would be almost certain to follow. Those opportunities that were priced significantly lower than the future value would be automatic buys. The one’s with higher prices today than the future price would be ones to avoid. If only it were that simple!
Are You Afraid of (Market) Heights?
Category: Investing » Market History
Investors have been experiencing some fear of heights recently. Many stocks and stock markets are at or near all-time highs. So, here’s the question investors need to ask themselves today, ”Do you think that stock markets 26 years from now will be higher or lower than they are currently, even if today is an all-time high?”
Cryptocurrency: Not for the Faint of Heart
Category: Investing » Market History
Will cryptocurrency replace the $20 bill in your pocket? Will the decentralization/digitization of currency end up solving anything? Will it be of long-term value? Or will it end up being only a place for speculators to try and capitalize on the sentiment of others? Anyone wanting to allocate to cryptocurrency should understand the inherent uncertainty and volatility of this relatively new digital commodity.
Stock Markets Are Positive This Year?
Category: Investing » Market History
As this year exemplifies, stock markets have the tendency to do things we would never expect.
The Biggest Risk to Investors Remaining in 2020?
Category: Investing » Market History
Aside from COVID-19, what represents the biggest risk for investors in the second half of what is turning out to be a historic 2020?
Elections and Your Money Q&A
Category: Investing » Market History
Since we were unable to answer all of the questions asked during the live webinar, we'd like to share some of the questions and answers in written form.
Diversification: Preparing for the Next Surprise
Category: Investing » Market History
Probably only one thing is certain: The world is still full of surprises yet to be revealed. Is your portfolio diversified in preparation for the next one?
What I Think About When Working From Home
Category: Investing » Market History
In the blink of an eye, it seems, our lives have taken a major turn, because of a sneaky, harmful, invisible germ. The concept of uncertainty is real and palpable.
Do Simple Better
Category: Investing » Market History
A focus on the fundamentals is not just good advice for the sports world. It applies to many areas of our lives and certainly our finances.
Coronavirus Worries Drive Economic Uncertainty and Stock Market Declines
Category: Investing » Market History
Investment markets around the world have been declining sharply this week in response to the Coronavirus outbreak.
How Elections Affect the Market
Category: Investing » Market History
A bit of history helps bring some perspective to trying to read too much into the influence of elections on stock markets.
Recent Market Volatility: Coronavirus Worries Are Only Part of the Story
Category: Investing » Market History
In addition to the coronavirus, other sources of investor uncertainty include global economic growth, the UK finalizing their Brexit negotiations, trade negotiations between Europe and the US, President TrumpÆs impeachment and ongoing Senate trial, and 20
Satisfying Your Tastes and Preferences for Investing and Dining
If you were asked to describe what you liked about your favorite food, where would you start? If you were asked to describe what you would like in your investment portfolio, what would you emphasize?
Being a Counterintuitive Investor – Do Stock Markets Follow GDP?
Category: Investing » Market History
It turns out GDP growth rates and stock market performance are not highly correlated in the way we would expect.
High Profit vs Low Profit: The Returns Are In!
If higher returns are offered to riskier investments, why is it that companies with higher profits generate better returns? Aren�t these companies less risky?