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Wealth Creation in the US Stock Markets comes from a Tiny Portion of Stocks – can you the 4%?

Wealth Creation in the US Stock Market Movies like the Wolf of Wallstreet glamorize the normal dealings of investment firms and active managers. They paint them as wildly successful entrepreneurs and sometimes even horrible scam artists, or a combination of the two. However, the reality is a bit different. It’s Read more…

By informedfinancials_ewdd8s, 5 days ago
Academic Research

Are stocks a good investment for the long run? Evidence from a broad sample of developed markets

Stocks for the long run is almost always a good idea, or is it?                 It’s generally a good bet that being in stocks will provide inflation beating returns. A lot of papers have studied this phenomenon in the past and concluded that this. For example, Vanguard has looked at Read more…

By informedfinancials_ewdd8s, 4 weeks ago
Personal Finance

The Shortest Summary of a Random Walk Down Wall Street on the Internet

The shortest summary of A Random Walk Down Wall Street:                 TLDR: “Market prices are so efficient that normal investors are better off buying and holding index funds than attempting to buy and sell individual stocks or actively managed funds.” A somewhat longer summary: A random walk is accepting that Read more…

By informedfinancials_ewdd8s, 51 years51 years ago
Personal Finance

Home Country Bias in investing

Most investors tend to exhibit certain trends when they invest and one of the most observable ones is home country bias. Home country bias is when an investor is over exposed to domestic equities in their investment portfolios. Let’s look at how this happens, the pros, cons, and how to Read more…

By informedfinancials_ewdd8s, 51 years51 years ago
Personal Finance

Recommended financial services:

These are a many investment and financial services out there. This is a list of various products we use and endorse. Further, we’ll make notes on ones we have heard of which have high reviews and good products as well. Is there a service here that you love but don’t Read more…

By informedfinancials_ewdd8s, 51 years51 years ago
Personal Finance

Best and easiest funds for the most diversification

Across this website, I’ve urged people to use diversification in their asset allocations, explained why diversification is a free lunch, and why you should have international diversification. But fortunately, there’s a few really easy ways to get all the diversification you could need in your investment portfolio as there’s a Read more…

By informedfinancials_ewdd8s, 51 years51 years ago
Personal Finance

How do you determine your asset allocation?

Asset allocation is perhaps one of the most important concepts investors and financially savvy people can know. You should be asking yourself, two questions. One, how old you are? Two, what your risk tolerance is? And you should be asking yourself these questions when you first create a portfolio for Read more…

By informedfinancials_ewdd8s, 51 years51 years ago
Personal Finance

The three fund or two fund portfolio – which is better?

The two easiest and most commonly recommended portfolios for investors and newbies are the two and three fund portfolios. These are among the lowest cost and simplest broad market portfolios that you could own. The two-fund portfolio is by far the easiest (it could even be one fund depending upon Read more…

By informedfinancials_ewdd8s, 51 years51 years ago
Personal Finance

The Last Free Lunch in Investing – Diversification

Diversification is a powerful thing in investing. The main idea behind it is simply that, you don’t put all your eggs into one basket. So, if one of the baskets has a hole, it doesn’t screw up your retirement plan. In the same vein but slightly more technical, diversification is Read more…

By informedfinancials_ewdd8s, 51 years51 years ago
High Risk Strategy

The High-Risk Strategy:

At its core, this High-Risk Strategy is a risk-parity strategy. Both funds in this strategy use a 3x leveraged ETF[1]. A leveraged ETF is a fund that uses financial derivatives and debt to amplify the returns of an underlying index. — Investopedia.com For a 3x ETF, if the underlying index Read more…

By informedfinancials_ewdd8s, 51 years51 years ago
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