nytimes.com - 7/12/2009
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LAST year, investors made a bad situation worse in the bear market by trying to time when to get into and out of stock mutual funds . As a group, they would have lost much less money had they simply held onto whatever funds they owned when the bear market began. Consider the domestic equity fund ...
chrisperruna.com - 7/9/2009
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Abnormal Returns —
... More evidence that mutual fund investors are awful at market timing. (NYTimes) ...
Monday morning links
The Mess That Greenspan Made —
... MARKETS/INVESTING • Oil up near $60 on weaker dollar, Nigeria attack - AP • India gold demand slack as rupee hits 2-month low - Reuters • High LTV + Trigger Event (Unemployment) = Default - Hussman Funds • Investing in the VIX could protect your portfolio - MarketWatch • Gas hits $2.55: Down 10 cents in two weeks - CNN/Money • Buying High and Selling Low - NY Times ECONOMY • Why creating jobs is so hard - Flekenstein, MSN Money • Why I’m unconvinced by calls for a second ...
Buying High and Selling Low - NYTimes.com
FinanceProfessor.com —
More evidence that suggests we are not very good at market timing. From The NY Times: Strategies - Buying High and Selling Low - NYTimes.com : "A study that appeared in the September 2007 issue of the Journal of Banking and Finance has found that poor market-timing decisions are the rule rather than the exception. Titled “Mutual Fund Flows and Investor Returns: An Empirical Examination of Fund Investor Timing Ability,” its authors are Geoffrey C. Friesen, a finance professor at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and Travis R. A. Sapp, a professor of accounting and finance at ...
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