http://netvouz.com/infor626/tag/stock?feed=rss infor626's bookmarks tagged "stock" on Netvouz http://www.bestnoloadmutualfund.com/avoid-actively-managed-mutual-funds-6.htm big mutual fund portfolio, actively managed mutual fund performance, large mutual funds, passively managed index funds, no load index funds, stock and bond mutual fund, actively managed mutual funds, net investment performance, large actively managed mutual funds, active mutual funds, passively managed index, actively managed mutual fund infor626 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:26:34 GMT http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.40/chance-creates-the-illusion-that-investors-can-beat-the-stock-market.html Chance creates the illusion that investors can beat the stock market - Personal Investment Management > Investment Luck versus Investing Skill Articles - Financial Articles, “Market efficiency” makes it very difficult for individual investors to “beat the market.” Left to their own decisions, individual investors perform so poorly that on average their investment returns lag behind the returns that one would expect from a completely random stock selection process. The average professional trader does somewhat better than amateurs do and, in part, probably does so at the expense of the amateurs. On average, any actual performance advantage delivered by professionals is significantly less than the average fees they charge for their services. infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT http://www.chx.com/ infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT http://www.thedigeratilife.com/blog/index.php/2008/01/03/why-most-investors-dont-make-money-in-the-stock-market/ What I've read recently seems to support my own observations: that most people aren't doing too well with their stock ... infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT http://www.sls.lib.il.us/reference/por/features/99/stock.html infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.37/how-do-changes-in-common-stock-price-volatility-affect-portfolio-diversification.html How do changes in common stock price volatility affect portfolio diversification? - Personal Investment Management > Investment Asset Diversification Articles -- Reducing Your Portfolio Risk - Financial Articles, Company level price risk has risen significantly in recent years, and price movement correlations between individual stocks have declined. This means investors must hold significantly more stocks to achieve diversification. Furthermore, volatility tends to jump well above average at the bottom of market cycles. Investors should understand these peaks in volatility and not just focus on the average volatility across market cycles. infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.13/how-do-return-expectations-of-investors-compare-to-historical-stock-returns-and-risk-premiums.html How do return expectations of investors compare to historical stock returns and risk premiums? - Personal Investment Management > Investment Returns and Securities Market Risk Premiums Articles - Financial Articles, At the peak of the market bubble, many stock market participants had extremely high return expectations. The consensus of investment science is that the long term equity risk premium is 4% to 5%. In the wake of an extended and brutal post bubble bear market, investor return expectations in the second half of 2004 were much diminished. However, their expectations were still over twice as high as the long term historical equity risk premium. infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.38/how-does-the-size-of-the-common-stock-risk-premium-affect-portfolio-diversification.html How does the size of the common stock risk premium affect portfolio diversification? - Personal Investment Management > Investment Asset Diversification Articles -- Reducing Your Portfolio Risk - Financial Articles, Diversification depends upon the expected equity premium and the correlation of price movements between individual stocks in the market. Depending on the size of the equity risk premium, non diversified individual investors could unwittingly give up their entire expected equity premium. This is an extraordinarily unproductive risk to take. infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.23/how-investment-securities-are-valued-snapshots-in-time.html How investment securities are valued -- snapshots in time - Personal Investment Management > How Stock and Bond Markets Value Investment Securities - Financial Articles, Every securities market transaction requires a buyer and seller with differing viewpoints. Differences between investors in their assessments of the intrinsic value and risk of securities allow markets to operate. infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/wp/how-unstable-have-stock-market-returns-been-over-time-231.htm Common stock equity market returns have varied widely in the past. The common stock equity risk premium has averaged about 4.1% from 1872 to 2000. The equity infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT