Since our founding 27 years ago, SEM has understood one critical fact — investors are humans, not robots. Each year DALBAR releases the Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavior (QAIB). They study the buy & sell patterns of stock and bond investors and compare the returns of the average investor to
Stock market cheerleaders often point to the high earnings growth rate projections when recommending investors “buy any dip” in the stock market. Last week we highlighted both the very high expectations for earnings growth along with a big increase in the “multiple” (Price/Earnings ratio). Essentially,
The stock market is supposed to be “efficient”, which means it is pricing in the current value of all future earnings for the component companies. Of course, nobody knows what those future earnings will be, so we often see wide swings between investors who are overly optimistic and
Volatility has returned to the markets with full force this year. The financial media continues to point to various culprits every time the stock market makes a major move up or down. This has left investors wondering how one small piece of information can cause the stock market to fall
The US economy is growing at a “great” (but not historic) rate. This has pushed the S&P 500 all the way back towards the record high it hit in January of this year. My greatest fear is if the market surpasses the highs of January
