http://netvouz.com/infor626/tag/average?feed=rss infor626's bookmarks tagged "average" on Netvouz http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/wp/always-completely-diversify-your-investment-portfolio-42.htm Complete portfolio diversification is always a better idea. On average, the securities markets will not pay you to hold any skewed subset of the overall infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.29/is-the-average-individual-investor-portfolio-well-diversified.html Is the average individual investor portfolio well diversified? - Personal Investment Management > Investment Asset Diversification Articles -- Reducing Your Portfolio Risk - Financial Articles, No, the average investor is not at all well diversified. Instead of investing in broadly diversified index funds or across a large number of individual securities, many individual investors concentrate investments in a very small number of equities. This lack of diversification causes most individual investors to underperform a passive market return, while they suffer greater price volatility. infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.8/what-have-average-investment-asset-class-risk-premiums-been-over-long-periods.html What have average investment asset class risk premiums been over long periods? - Personal Investment Management > Investment Returns and Securities Market Risk Premiums Articles - Financial Articles, Over the past two hundred years, real or non inflationary equity market returns have averaged just under 7%. During the 19th century, cash and bond returns “were king” and additional equity risk returns were relatively small. In the 20th century and particularly during the second half of that century, investors were much more richly rewarded for carrying the risks associated with equity investments. infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT