In 2013 a curious thing happened in Stockholm. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in economics to three academics who had developed theories about stock prices. What was odd was that two of the recipients — Eugene Fama and Robert Shiller — couldn't have been more opposed [...]
Staying off the roller-coaster
I have a question for you which is, admittedly, a trick question: Should you invest in technology stocks, such as Apple? My answer: Yes, certainly. Another question (also a trick question): Should you invest in the stocks of entertainment companies like Netflix? My answer: Again, yes, of [...]
On average
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 [...]
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