Market meltdown and investor behavior. Evidence-based, low-cost index fund investing. Avoidance of emotional biases.

Decade review covering 2010-2019

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...

Do you still remember early January 2019, after jittery investors and media talking-heads had been frightened by the volatility spikes...

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...

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...

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)?...

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...

Most investors will have enjoyed the performance of most markets during the second quarter of 2019. As usual, the reader is reminded that...

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...

Investment fads are nothing new. When selecting strategies for their portfolios, investors are often tempted to seek out the latest and...

2018 has been quite a year with all sorts of political drama and with a fourth quarter performance which might have rattled the resolve...

Are you feeling stung by the markets? Well, it turns out that - while the past quarter certainly tested the resolve and the stomach of...

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...

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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Have you ever wondered what makes you as an investor truly happy? Do you believe it is always the mantra of "maximize portfolio gains"...

The second quarter of 2018 might have rattled your confidence as an investor. Increased levels of equity volatility have entered the...

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...

Academic research has unearthed time and again that a disciplined investment approach is the key to investor success. How do you instill...