Comments on: How investors lost money: evidence from mutual fund flows

By: Fiduciary Adviser

Fiduciary Adviser — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:39:37 +0000

Investors respond to fear and greed, instead of following a carefully analyzed strategy that includes a defensive and offensive component. Buying and holding has neither of those.

By: Fund Returns vs. Investor Returns | Subramoney

Fund Returns vs. Investor Returns | Subramoney — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 22:52:25 +0000

[...] http://investment-fiduciary.com/2009/07/30/how-investors-lost-money-evidence-from-mutual-fund-flows/ [...]

By: Stir-Frying Chinese Stocks « The Investment Fiduciary

Stir-Frying Chinese Stocks « The Investment Fiduciary — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:37:06 +0000

[...] investors’ tendency to hurt themselves knows no national border. The Chinese hurt themselves like their U.S. counterparts, by trying to [...]

By: Low Savings, Bad Investments « The Baseline Scenario

Low Savings, Bad Investments « The Baseline Scenario — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:31:20 +0000

[...] from 0.9 to 2.2 percentage points, depending on fund volatility. (It can be much higher — over 10 percentage points — for other types of [...]

By: Why You Should Avoid Listening to Too Much Investment Noise - CBS MoneyWatch.com

Why You Should Avoid Listening to Too Much Investment Noise - CBS MoneyWatch.com — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:06:29 +0000

[...] cause you to take counterproductive actions. The proof of that comes from studies showing that the returns earned by investors are well below the returns of the very funds in which they invest — a result caused by reacting to information that is nothing more than [...]