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Year of the Yo-Yo
In 2011, the S. & P. 500 finished the year where it started. (To be precise, it fell 0.003 per cent.) But it was anything but a placid year in the stock market. Instead, there was extraordinary tumult throughout 2011, with a series of sharp rallies and brutal selloffs, the biggest of which sent the market down seventeen per cent in a couple of weeks. Even on a daily basis, stocks were startlingly volatile: the Dow Jones Industrial Average moved more than a hundred...
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Posted January 23, 2012 @ 6:53pm
Three behaviors that can affect your investment performance
Investors who are believers in the so-called efficient market hypothesis were shaken up yet again when the markets didn’t factor in all available information during the heady days of subprime lending. Indeed, they have had to cede some ground to behavioral economists who point to the role of bias in financial decisions.
The efficient market hypothesis essentially says that investors cannot beat the markets over time since stock prices are based on all available information. The...
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Posted January 3, 2012 @ 5:04pm
Why ‘I Don’t Know’ Is Often Your Best Money Answer
December 19, 2011, 1:00 pm By CARL RICHARDS. source: The New York TIMES
Of all the phrases in the financial planning world, “I don’t know” may well be the most powerful.
There are other phrases like “it depends” that are similar, but underlying them all is the fact that we are trying to make...
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Posted December 21, 2011 @ 10:13pm
Five things Wall Street doesn’t want you to know
Dec 10, 2011 – 9:00 AM ET | Last Updated: Dec 12, 2011 11:27 AM ET
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Posted December 12, 2011 @ 11:11pm
Can the Pros Time the Market?
Posted by Dan Bortolotti at mail@canadiancouchpotato.com.
November 28, 2011
I never meant to make you cry
And though I know I shouldn’t call
It just reminds us of the cost
Of everything we’ve lost
Bad timing, that’s all
– Bad Timing, Blue Rodeo
One of the...
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Posted November 28, 2011 @ 5:28pm
Stay calm in the sea of volatility
Stay the course and remain calm. That’s the message from the Portfolio Management Association of Canada’s membership on how to best cope with current market volatility and global economic troubles.
The association recently polled its members—approximately 105 investment management firms representing more than $800 billion in assets under management—on the issues and challenges and opportunities they’re facing as an...
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Posted November 23, 2011 @ 5:37pm
Worried about Europe? Lessons from Canada's 'basket case'
Nov 21, 2011 – 8:58 AM ET
By Randall Palmer and Louise Egan
OTTAWA — Finance officials bit their nails and nervously watched the clock. There were 30 minutes left in a bond auction aimed at funding...
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Posted November 22, 2011 @ 6:12pm
Can we get some service here?
By Dan Bortolotti | From MoneySense Magazine, November 2011
I recently got a call from a fellow journalist—I’ll call her Natalie—who wanted a second opinion on her investments. Natalie had been happy with...
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Posted November 16, 2011 @ 10:01pm
Investors flee the market, miss big gains
Investors flee the market, miss big gains
By Larry Swedroe
(MoneyWatch)
We've already seen investors miss the greatest bull market of the past 70 years due to panic selling from the... Read More/Post Comment (0) NEW YORK TIMES By DANIEL KAHNEMAN Oct 19, 2011 Many decades ago I spent what seemed like a great deal of time under a scorching sun, watching groups of... Read More/Post Comment (1)
Posted November 15, 2011 @ 6:28pmDon't Blink! The Hazards of Confidence
Posted November 14, 2011 @ 5:34pm