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How Does the Stock Market Work?

  • December 27, 2018/
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Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich

This cartoon highlights how your behavior as an investor strongly influences your success.  Investor behaviors that likely contribute to reducing your returns include:

  • The tendency for investors to sell underperforming investments and then replace them with others that performed well; a pattern of “buying high,” and “selling low.”
  • Emotionally driven decisions that may cause trading at inopportune times.
  • Investment activity motivated by media hype, financial news networks, or televised “experts.”
  • Poor market timing decisions resulting in missed opportunities.

Avoid being the subject of this cartoon!  Great investors throughout history have understood that building long-term wealth requires the ability to control one’s emotions and avoid self-destructive investor behavior.


Who Is Best to Manage Your Money?

  • December 21, 2018/
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As an investor, you are faced with hundreds of decisions on where to get your investment advice. Here’s a nice breakdown between advisors and brokers that can help steer your decision making process.

The infographic below refers to advisors using the acronym “RIAs” which stands for Registered Investment Advisors.

NorthStar Capital Advisors is an RIA.  Note that we have no minimum investment requirements so we win Round 4 below as well!  We hope this information will help you understand the role that we play in helping our clients.

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Leveraged and Inverse ETFs — Most Investors Should Avoid Them

  • December 14, 2018/
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Leveraged and inverse ETFs are difficult to understand and are not a good fit for long-term investors.

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) trade daily on exchanges like stocks. Leveraged versions use complex futures and derivatives to amplify the daily returns of an index, often times trying to double or triple the return. Inverse ETFs strive to return the opposite of the index.

When ETFs are held for longer than a day, the effects of compounding can produce results that vary significantly from the one-day outcome. This makes leveraged and inverse ETFs unpredictable and risky to hold for longer periods.

Citi, Morgan Stanley, UBS and Wells Fargo have paid $9.1M to settle allegations on leveraged ETFs. These banks were fined $7.3 million and they agreed to pay $1.8 million in restitution to some customers who were sold leveraged and inverse ETFs. Industry regulators allege the banks sold billions of dollars of these volatile investments without properly assessing their risks and whether they were suitable for retail customers. (“Retail” customers are individual investors versus “institutional” investors like pensions and hedge funds).

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the Security & Exchange Commission (SEC) have previously warned the investing public about the risks of leveraged and inverse ETFs, particularly for those investing for the long term.


Temperament over Intellect

  • December 7, 2018/
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Warren Buffett once said, “The most important quality for an investor is temperament not intellect.”

Investors very often buy at high prices when the market is hot and attractive, and sell at low prices after observing periods of poor performance.

This leads average investors to severely trail both the S&P 500 index and the Barclays Aggregate Bond Index over long time periods.  This is why investors are very often their own worst enemy.

CBS MoneyWatch author Larry Swedroe recommends in this article that you ask yourself if you believe that you’re best served by being your own advisor:

  • Do I have the temperament and the emotional discipline needed to adhere to a plan in the face of the many crises I will almost certainly face?
  • Am I confident that I have the fortitude to withstand a severe drop in the value of my portfolio without panicking?
  • Will I be able to re-balance back to my target allocations (keeping my head while most others are losing theirs), buying more stocks when the light at the end of the tunnel seems to be a truck coming the other way?

 


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