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Jan 17, 20231 min read
Quarterly Market Review Q4 2022
Regular blog readers will be familiar with our usual Quarterly Market Review report. Please enjoy the Q4 2022 QMR by clicking HERE or by...
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Dec 14, 20221 min read
Key Lessons for Investors from 2022 - Part II
As we have seen in our previous post, the media and polled experts have a habit to make assumptions about the future. But as we outlined,...
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Dec 13, 20222 min read
Key Lessons for Investors from 2022: The year in the News and Market Returns
As 2022 – a truly eventful year in equity and bond markets - nears its close, analysts are being asked about their expectations for 2023....
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Oct 6, 20221 min read
Q3 2022 market review: When it rains, it pours!
Ouch! What a quarter! While the current generation of investors has gotten used to downward equity volatility, the double-whammy of...
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Jul 7, 20221 min read
Mr. Market strikes back!
Ouch, what a quarter! Mr. Market really dished out a painful kick to the teeth of investors in Q2 2022. Investors’ resolve might have...
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Jun 14, 20223 min read
Do you really need to be worried about the current bear market?
A lot of ink has been spilled in the past 24 hours ever since US equity markets and global equity markets have officially entered bear...
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Apr 12, 20221 min read
Q1 2022 market review
Evidence -based, low-cost index investing, disciplined investing, market review
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Apr 4, 20221 min read
First-quarter 2022 index returns
My dear blog readers, Increased interest by existing readers regarding the index returns of the past quarter lead us to a quick update of...
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Oct 9, 20211 min read
Q3 2021 market review
It should come as no surprise to our readers that global equity markets entered a period of directionless market volatility in this past...
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Jul 9, 20211 min read
Another very strong quarter – Q2 2021 market review
Almost all asset classes globally continued their upward trend in the past quarter, with soybeans as a niche commodity being the only...
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Jul 8, 20211 min read
The equity run-up continues – Q1 2021 market review
Equities continued their meteoric rise in Q1 2021, while medium-term and long-term bonds had losses in Q1 2021 (short-duration bonds eked...
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Marc
Jun 10, 20213 min read
Long-term benefits of Stock Investing: Why you need to have equities in your portfolio
There is no denying: stock markets are indeed volatile, and your daily newsfeed about what equity markets were up to over the past 24...
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Marc
May 31, 20211 min read
What an amazing year 2020!
With the Covid-19-induced equity market crisis of March 2020 firmly in our rearview mirrors, it is high time that we perform our usual...
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May 31, 20211 min read
My apologies
My dear blog readers, First of all, my sincerest apologies for the very long radio silence from my end. Unfortunately, Covid and a couple...
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Marc
Oct 15, 20201 min read
Q3 2020 market review
Dear blog reader, you, as a long-term investor, certainly enjoyed the meteoric recovery in Q2 2020 and the recovery continuation of Q3...
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Jul 9, 20201 min read
What a fantastic quarter – Q2 2020 market review
What a fantastic meteoric upward trajectory in equity markets lies behind us in Q2 2020! You, as a reader of this blog, certainly are a...
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Jun 8, 20203 min read
How to deal with uncertainty
How to deal with uncertainty in investing.
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May 29, 20205 min read
Are you puzzled by the divergence between buoyant stocks and the current sinking economy?
Don’t you find it puzzling when one bleak economic report after the other emerges in the press on a nearly constant basis, only to be...
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Apr 19, 20201 min read
What a brutal quarter - Q1 2020 market review
Quarterly Market Review
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Mar 21, 20206 min read
How your portfolio will survive the Covid-19 equity market crash
How evidence-based, low-cost index fund investing will see your portfolio through the Covid-19 market crisis. What you should do now.
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