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Will Inflation Hurt Stock Returns? Not Necessarily.
Investors may wonder whether stock returns will suffer if inflation keeps rising. Here’s some good news: Inflation isn’t necessarily bad news for stocks. History shows ...
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Which Country Will Outperform? Here’s Why It Shouldn’t Matter.
Investment opportunities exist all around the globe, but the randomness of global stock returns makes it exceedingly difficult to figure out which markets are likely ...
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‘Everything Screams Inflation.’ How to Interpret the Headlines.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- After last year’s economic shocks, we shouldn’t be surprised to see prices rebounding.
- But the potential for inflation is ...
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Are Concerns About Inflation Inflated?
US consumer prices were up by 5.4% for the year ending June 2021, the largest annual increase since August 2008.1 Naturally, inflation is at the ...
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The Cost of Trying To Time the Market
Missing only a few days of strong returns can drastically impact overall performance. The impact of missing just a few of the market’s best days ...
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Pursuing a Better Investment Experience v2021
Our popular brochure, "Pursuing a Better Investment Experience," has been updated with data through 2020. It describes principles for investing in the capital markets that ...
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Do Downturns Lead to Down Years?
Stock market declines over a few days or months may lead investors to anticipate a down year. But the US stock market had positive returns ...
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Global Diversification Can Make a World of Difference
The US stock market is the biggest in the world2, but investors who ignore other global markets may miss out on a wealth of opportunity ...
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Long-term strategies: Can the broad market be beat?
Dimensional Head of Investment Strategists Wes Crill joins CNBC’s “ETF Edge” to discuss the pitfalls of attempting to time the market (0:15), outguessing vs. outperforming ...
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Tales from the Crypto: How to Think About Bitcoin
The article on this page was republished here with permission of Dimensional Fund Advisors LP. No further republication or redistribution is permitted without the consent of Dimensional ...
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Flexibility in Practice: How Dimensional Handled the GameStop saga compared to an Index
The article on this page was republished here with permission of Dimensional Fund Advisors LP. No further republication or redistribution is permitted without the consent of Dimensional ...
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Think Investing Is a Game? Stop.
By David Booth, Executive Chairman and Founder of Dimensional Fund Advisors It’s easy to view the stories of market speculation that have dominated the news ...
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What should investors make of the dramatic stock price movements?
I also recommend this great read on the GameStop saga by Larry Hatheway & Alex Friedman, "The Game Stops Here." A recent flurry of return ...
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Think Twice About Chasing the Biggest Stocks
As companies grow to become some of the largest firms trading on the US stock market, the returns that push them there can be impressive ...
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Bulls, Bears, and Long-Term Benefits of Stock Investing
Stock returns are volatile, but nearly a century of bull and bear markets shows that the good times have outshined the bad times.
- From 1926 ...
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Lump-Sum Investing vs. Dollar-Cost Averaging
Some investors favor a dollar-cost averaging (DCA) approach to deploying their investment capital. Unlike lump-sum investing, in which the full amount of available capital is invested up front, ...
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The Futility of Market Timing
This week, Robin Powell, a UK-based investor advocate, writes in his The Evidence-Based Investor blog: "If global stock markets have taught us anything this year, ...
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Giant Firms Atop The Market Is Nothing New
A top-heavy stock market with the largest 10 stocks accounting for over 20% of market capitalization and a marquee technology firm perched at No. 1? ...
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