One of the benefits espoused by proponents of index funds is the low turnover rate. I thought I would explain just what portfolio turnover is, and the further provide some concrete evidence to really …

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According to the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), risk can be used interchangeably with standard deviation with respect to well diversified portfolios. In other words, risk can be viewed as a …

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If you've been reading about investing long enough, eventually you'll run into the saying "Sell in May and go away". The premise is that the markets haven't given much return (on average) during the …

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What I mean by this is that the appeal of indexation strategies is great when there is enough active stock picking going on to make a market efficient to the point that you cannot reliably identify …

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If you are new to WhereDoesAllMyMoneyGo.com, every Friday I run a post called “A Lap Of The Blogs” which provides links to articles I found interesting and think that others may want to read for …

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Part of my role at my company is dealing with institutional investors. That's a pretty large sphere, ranging from pension funds to corporations to managed asset programs that are distributed to retail …

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