INVEST SYSTEMATICALLY (Investing Principles) Already do it automatically in 401k plans Avoids market timing and emotional investing Invest equal amounts of money at regular intervals Buy more shares in down market and fewer shares in up markets Watch the related WEALTHTRACK Episode.
INVEST SYSTEMATICALLY
FIRST THINGS FIRST: WHAT’S YOUR FINANCIAL PLAN?
Studies show women aren’t as interested in money and investing as men. Big mistake. With longer life expectancy and today’s high divorce rate, up to nine out of 10 women will be solely responsible for their finances at some point in their lives.
Andrew Lo – Financial Innovation
ANDREW LO: FINANCIAL INNOVATION
Why do investors make stupid mistakes? Why do individuals consistently underperform the very funds they invest in? Are there strategies investors can follow to avoid self-destructive behavior? Those are some of the weighty questions Financial Thought Leader Andrew Lo is trying to answer from two vantage points, one as a professor of Finance at MIT and Director of its Laboratory for Financial Engineering, the other as strategist and fund manager at his firm AlphaSimplex Group. This week’s conversation will start with his most recent research project at MIT, titled “Artificial Stupidity”!
Charles Royce: Changing Markets
CHARLES ROYCE: CHANGING MARKETS
In a WEALTHTRACK exclusive, Great Investor, Charles “Chuck” Royce, warns us not to read too much into recent super-sized stock returns, particularly off the 2009 market lows. He predicts quality companies will once again lead over speculative ones and active managers to overtake passive index strategies. This small cap pioneer, for one, has been doing that for decades