Overview There are meticulous stock pickers, rapid-fire day traders and automatic buy-and-holders — representing just a few of the many different types of investors. There are even investing styles associated with various asset classes. For example, value stocks tend to trade at a low price relative to their fundamentals (i.e., dividends, earnings and sales), leaving…
What Can We Gain From All This Pain?
A Rough Start to 2016 The first three weeks of the New Year delivered investors an 11% draw-down in the S&P 500, and many are justifiably concerned that stocks could continue to fall even further. Draw-downs often strain the emotions of long-term investors because the fluctuations in equity prices tends to amplify loss aversion. As…
“May You Live in Interesting Times”
Interesting Times Indeed The title is reputed to be a legendary Chinese curse, and it is often used in English-speaking countries during times of disorder and despair. Despite the intended irony of using a Chinese proverb during a period when China is to blame for much investor angst, it’s safe to say that everyday investors…
FANG
What is the FANG? You may have seen this acronym floating around over the past 6 months. It stands for Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, & Google. These 4 companies had a great 2015 for their shareholders. Each of them has a niche that they dominate and in 2015 they were all rewarded heavily for their positions….