This article originally appeared in the May 2014 issue of the AAII Journal. One of the biggest risks to investors’ net worth is the portfolio decisions they make. Failing to adhere to an appropriate long-term strategy has a significant damaging impact on wealth. Since wealth is generated from the compounding of returns, actions that severely…
This article originally appeared in the July 2014 issue of the AAII Journal. It may come as a surprise to those who have placed their nest eggs in an S&P 500 index fund, or an actively managed version thereof, that they are actually making a decision to exclude a significant portion of the equity universe. Academic…
This article originally appeared in the May 2014 issue of the AAII Journal. The secret to investing successfully is no secret; many investors have heard it already. The problem is that too many investors still do not practice it. Simply put, if you invest over a period of time, properly diversify across a variety of asset classes…
This excerpt is from “Keynes’s Way to Wealth,” by John F. Wasik and originally appeared in the March 2014 issue of the AAII Journal. If you are not an AAII member and want to gain access to all the benefits of membership, simply take a risk-free 30-day Trial AAII Membership and start becoming an effective manager of your own…
This article originally appeared in the August 2014 issue of the AAII Journal. Jeremy Siegel is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the senior investment strategy advisor to WisdomTree Investments and the author of the best-selling book, “Stocks for the Long Run” (fifth edition, McGraw-Hill, 2014). He spoke to about the importance of maintaining a significant allocation…
This article originally appeared in the September 2014 issue of the AAII Journal. There is a large body of research showing that investors depend on emotions and anecdotal information when making decisions. You are no doubt aware of this and are familiar with the resulting cognitive investment errors. There have been numerous articles dealing with how investors can…
This article originally appeared in the September 2014 issue of the AAII Journal. William “Bill” Sharpe is the STANCO 25 Professor of Finance, Emeritus, at Stanford University, recipient of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences and a co-founder of Financial Engines Inc. He also authors the Retirement Income Scenarios blog (RetirementIncomeScenarios.blogspot.com). He spoke to AAII…
This article originally appeared in the September 2014 issue of the AAII Journal. You’ve spent a lifetime investing and planning for your retirement. Utilizing intelligent cash flow strategies during your retirement will help you enjoy it. What factors do you need to take into account? the need for real, not nominal, cash flow (i.e., an…
This article originally appeared in the July 2015 issue of the AAII Journal. Contrary to what many believe, significantly increasing the proxies voted by informed individual investors would appreciably improve the corporate governance landscape. Why not just sell shares of poorly governed corporations? Selling the “bad” stocks may help with individual investments in the short-term, but…
This article originally appeared in the May 2015 issue of the AAII Journal. It’s a fact that the order in which you experience positive and negative returns significantly impacts how your portfolio performs. The big uncertainty is what actual sequence of returns you will experience in the future. It is impossible to predict how the markets will perform…
