Should you invest in the stock market? The answer to this question seems fairly obvious: Over the past ninety years, stocks have returned, on average, 10 percent per year, far outpacing bonds (about 5 percent) and cash (less than 3 percent). So, why am I asking if you should invest in stocks? The [...]
Numbers worth your attention
A while back, I remember speaking with an industry colleague about a company that had been in the news. He told me that he liked the company's stock and that, in fact, he had bought it for the mutual fund that he managed. Then he added, parenthetically, “I owned it, then I sold it, then I bought it [...]
Knowing what you don’t know
In the spring of 2000, University of California professor Terry Odean published a research paper on the topic of investor behavior. The results weren't pretty. On average, by Odean's reckoning, individual investors lagged the overall market by nearly four percentage points per year. The culprit: the [...]
Relatively normal
Ted Benna, the inventor of the 401(k) retirement plan, famously once stated that the system he created should be “blown up.” Why? It's not the fundamental structure, which he still believes in. What he doesn't like is the complexity and the costs that characterize today's typical 401(k). The [...]
An uncomfortable question
A few years back, a fellow named Wylie Tollette faced some uncomfortable questions as he sat before the public oversight committee of the California Public Employees Retirement System (“CalPERS”). As the pension fund's Chief Operating Investment Officer, Tollette was responsible for updating the [...]
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