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Should Correlations Drive Your Investment Decisions?

2 Comments / Asset Allocation, Bonds, Commodities, Fox Feed, Investor Behavior & Psychology, NASDAQ Feed, Partner Feeds, Portfolio Management, Retirement Planning, Technical Analysis, U.S. Stock Market, Volatility VIX, Yahoo Feed / By Ronald Delegge

Do stock market correlations matter? Statisticians use correlations (or cross-correlation) to measure the relationship between asset classes or investments. The general idea is to better understand the similarity or dissimilarity in how investments perform against each other and to build a portfolio of investments that can benefit. The CBOE S&P 500 Implied Correlation Index (ChicagoOptions:^KCJ) …

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Long-Term Investing: A Cautionary True Life Tale

Asset Allocation, Financial Planning, Fox Feed, Investor Behavior & Psychology, NASDAQ Feed, Partner Feeds, Portfolio Management, Yahoo Feed / By Ronald Delegge

The financial services industry’s bias toward long-term investing as the magic formula to the problems that face the individual investor is wrong and misleading. For example, illustrating unrealistic long-term time horizons of 100 or 200 years of equity returns (NYSEARCA:VTI) to prove that we should all be long-term investors is a common practice among both academicians and …

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