US equity markets have been more volatile in the past few weeks. Investors are worried about a variety of factors such as growing debt, rising bond yields, China, excessive valuations and of course the most important of all – inflation. It is widely accepted that stocks are the best asset class to own to beat …
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Investing for the long-term is the best investment strategy as the stock market traditionally goes higher over the long-term but tends to be volatile in the short-term. Over the many decades from 1926 thru 2020, S&P 500 has had many bull markets than bear markets. In fact, many bull markets were longer than bear markets. …
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One of the smart ways to diversify globally is to invest in multiple countries. With this approach it is possible to capture the top returns from one equity market and reduce the impact from a poor or worse returns from another market. Just like the return of various individual companies, the equity returns of individual …
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I have written many time before on the futility of market timing. Since markets tend to go to extreme levels on both the upside and downside trying to get in and out at tops and bottoms will lead to worse outcomes. The wise strategy is to simply stay in the market regardless of volatility and …
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The S&P 500 closed at 4,458 on Friday. The index is up over 20% as of last Friday’s close and has reached 54 records so far this year. The P/E ratio stands at over 34, well above the historic levels at around 20. At current levels, US stocks are expensive indeed. However that does not …
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