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Feb 16, 20203 min read
Market Review for the Past Decade (Part 2)
Decade review covering 2010-2019
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Jan 12, 20203 min read
Market Review for the Past Decade (Part 1)
January 2020 Imagine you had a time machine and you were able to go back 10 years. You decide to travel back to early January 2010 and...
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Jan 11, 20201 min read
Market Review 2019: What a benign year for investors!
Do you still remember early January 2019, after jittery investors and media talking-heads had been frightened by the volatility spikes...
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Jan 10, 20201 min read
Q4 2019 market review
First off: Happy New Year to all the readers of my blog! I am sure that most investors will have enjoyed the equity market performance in...
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Oct 9, 20191 min read
Q3 2019 market review
An almost flat Q3 2019 lies behind us, but while the starting and end point of the quarter were almost flat, there was a little bit of...
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Oct 4, 20193 min read
Fear vs Rationality: Becoming a better investor (Part 2)
So you have made a firm commitment to become a better investor and to not be ruled by FOMO, greed and fear anymore (see previous post)?...
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Aug 15, 20192 min read
Fear vs Rationality: The key to investor success (Part 1)
The stock market awakens a dangerous emotion in all of us: Fear. It is sitting dormant in most investors, awaiting an excuse to wake up...
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Jul 29, 20191 min read
Q2 2019 market review
Most investors will have enjoyed the performance of most markets during the second quarter of 2019. As usual, the reader is reminded that...
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Apr 11, 20191 min read
Q1 2019 market review
Most of investors will have sighed a deep sigh of relief after Q1 2019 offered a very solid performance and after the Q4 2018 downward...
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Apr 9, 20194 min read
Déjà Vu All Over Again
Investment fads are nothing new. When selecting strategies for their portfolios, investors are often tempted to seek out the latest and...
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Jan 27, 20191 min read
2018: The year volatility struck back
2018 has been quite a year with all sorts of political drama and with a fourth quarter performance which might have rattled the resolve...
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Jan 8, 20191 min read
Ouch, what a quarter!
Are you feeling stung by the markets? Well, it turns out that - while the past quarter certainly tested the resolve and the stomach of...
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Jan 3, 20194 min read
Why Should You Diversify?
As we enter the new year 2019, and with US stocks having outperformed non-US stocks in recent years albeit the most recent market tremors...
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Dec 13, 20181 min read
Worried about Stock Market Volatility? Read this....
After a spike in volatility in Q1 2018, markets had been benign until the beginning of October 2018. But investors' collective nerves...
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Oct 8, 20181 min read
Q3 2018 market review
Please enjoy reading our quarterly global market review by clicking the icon below. #quarterlymarketreview
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Oct 8, 20181 min read
The Psychology of Investing: Investor Happiness, Perceptions and Expectations
Have you ever wondered what makes you as an investor truly happy? Do you believe it is always the mantra of "maximize portfolio gains"...
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Jul 11, 20181 min read
Q2 2018 market review
The second quarter of 2018 might have rattled your confidence as an investor. Increased levels of equity volatility have entered the...
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Jul 10, 20184 min read
Where has the Value Premium gone?
From 1928–2017 the value premium [1] in the US had a positive annualized return of approximately 3.5%. [2] In seven of the last 10...
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Apr 14, 20181 min read
Tuning out the noise: The benefits of a disciplined investment approach
Academic research has unearthed time and again that a disciplined investment approach is the key to investor success. How do you instill...
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