Individual investors collectively are viewed as “dumb money” by much of the investment community. The polite way of expressing that harsh assessment is to say that individual investors are viewed as a contrarian indicator. A contrarian indicator is one which ...

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Exchange traded funds have become popular with investors as the less expensive siblings of traditional mutual funds but, like mutual funds, the full cost to the investor is not so obvious. Investors who want to know the full cost need ...

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In the investment world, bad ideas are never in short supply. You might say that there is always a bull market in bad ideas being peddled to the investing public. To take just one example, consider the continuing profusion of ...

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Investors are being warned to be wary of bonds because the effect of rising interest rates will be to crush bond prices. The warning is well founded — up to a point. Rising rates will push bond prices down, but ...

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  The costs of investing are a major reason so many actively managed mutual funds tend to underperform against their relevant benchmark. Many investors and, frankly, many investment advisors aren’t aware that when it comes to costs there is more ...

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