Stock Indexes / indices, and other related indexes / indices.
2010 was the year the market truly came back, despite sovereign debt concerns in Europe, the global currency battle, and other geopolitical issues. This summary does not capture every detail of the market during the last 12 months, but it is meant to give the investor an overall idea of what happened, in order...
This article is a short follow-up to the article Index Funds & The DIY Investor Herd, where I discussed the trend of the DIY investor herd and index mutual funds, ETFs, and index related financial products. In the article I discussed many myths, inaccuracies, and misrepresentations made by aggressive proponents of index funds /...
The DIY (Do-It-Yourself) investor crowd has been growing over the years, as average investors saw their portfolios devastated. They experienced enormous investment losses from the two most recent crashes in history (credit crisis / housing bust, and the technology / dot-com bust). The average investors invested mainly in mutual funds, and the average DIY...
Exchanges all over the world plummeted yesterday, after US lawmakers blocked the $700M US bailout. The result was a global plunge in the stock markets. The Dow Jones Industrial average lost a record 748.21 points. The TSX was down as much as 955 points at one point. From Japan and China, all the way...
