Research shows that the accuracy of forecasts by these professionals were no different from the random chance of a coin-flip, with an accuracy rating of 48%.

With Trump currently ahead in the polls around 10 days to the election, investors may be worried about increased tensions with the US and other countries and the resultant impact to the market.

Many investors believe that when interest rates fall, bond prices should rise. However when the Federal Open Market Committee cut the discount rate by 0.50%, the 10-Year Treasury fell in price.

While the annual average return of the global market in the past 20 years is +5.69%, the actual annual return ranges from -42.77% all the way to +49.14%.

An average annual return of almost 20% with close to 20 years of consecutive positive returns, it sounded too good to be true. It was.

A record 38 emerging market ex-China funds have popped up in 2023 and 2024, with a rise of 2300% flowing into these funds in the in past 3 years. Have you jumped on the bandwagon?

The US Federal Reserve has lowered interest rates by 0.5% during their September 2024 meeting. So far, stock markets have responded positively, but interestingly, bonds have not started to rally as expected by many.

Commercial airlines, automobiles, the radio, and the internet may have changed the way we live but it has failed to deliver returns to investors.

Peloton is down -95%, Zoom -88%, Moderna -84%, and Etsy -83% since their peaks during the Covid-19 pandemic. Such a severe wipe out over a couple of years is pretty terrifying to imagine, especially when it comes to your portfolio.

The long term average return from investing in the global market is around +7.36%/year. But in reality, what we get each year can be very far from that number (e.g. almost -20% in 2022, or almost +30% in 2019).

The lack of SGD investment options as well as the need for a global opportunity set naturally comes with exposure to foreign currencies. Is your wealth poised to take on forex movements?

+154% in earnings, but -8% in share price. Nvidia's announcement has puzzling effect on investor behaviour.

On average about 100 of the funds available at the beginning of any given year disappear (they are liquidated or merged).

By the time the Fed announces and executes rate changes, you'd be too late.

In the Challenger tragedy of 1986, what took a 5-month investigation to determine, the stock market figured out in a matter of minutes.

Indicator with perfect record of identifying recessions might be wrong for the first time in more than half a century.

Some investors might cut their investment exposure due to recent fearful headlines to, but that would be a big mistake.

The losses from rigid rebalancing in index investing