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Why Isn’t Everyone Beating the Market?
Sometimes I wonder why everyone isn’t getting better returns than a simple Couch Potato portfolio. Spend a little time and you’ll discover all kinds o [...]
Ask the Spud: Does Home Bias Ever Make Sense?
Q: The Global Couch Potato has one-third of the equity allocation in Canadian stocks, but Canada makes up only about 4% of the world markets. Aren’t y [...]
Why I Have No Faith in Market Timing
Earlier this week I described the market timing strategy outlined in Mebane Faber’s book The Ivy Portfolio. I chose not to editorialize too much, pref [...]
Market Timing Goes to College
In recent years, the so-called Yale Model has been extremely popular with investors. The model is an attempt to mimic the investment strategy used by [...]
Can You Protect Your Portfolio From Drawdowns?
If your portfolio loses 1% today and gains 1% tomorrow, are you back to even? Not quite, but you’re awfully close. You actually need a gain of 1.01% t [...]
Risk and Uncertainty in Stock Markets
When we consider the risk in investing, we’re often thinking about volatility: that is, the sometimes dramatic movements in equity prices. But as Alan [...]
The Models Are Broken—But Indexing Still Works
If you’ve researched the theoretical foundations of index investing, you’ve no doubt come across Modern Portfolio Theory and the Efficient Markets Hyp [...]
Closing the Behavior Gap
I once went to an investment seminar at my local library. It was attended by a handful of folks who had little or no experience with investing and wer [...]
Apple and the Dividend Puzzle
As loyal readers will know, I’ve been critical of the zeal with which some investors approach dividends. Based on countless blog posts, emails and con [...]
Claymore’s Final Report Card
Tracking error—the difference between the performance of a fund and that of its benchmark—is the best way to measure an index fund’s true cost. While [...]
