Most forecasts by well-known financial institutions for 2023 early last year were gloomy and foreboding, and ended up being way off the mark, with global stocks ended the year at +20%. So what should we expect in 2024?

Many people listen to the forecasts because to them, getting it right could mean a windfall and a false sense of certainty to something which is highly unknowable.

Future economic circumstances are reflected in current market prices. Investing based on today’s news can almost be a year (or more) too late.

All news is old news. Invest looking to the future, rather than base your decisions on outdated data.

As we head into 2020, it helps to look at financial forecasts with the hindsight gained from 2019.

Proper investing is just like having a balanced diet.

Stock picking is looking for a needle in a haystack. Diversification is buying the whole haystack.

Reacting to daily movements in stock and bond prices is like being distracted by the weather. It’s the long-term goals - climate that you should be focusing on.

Investing isn’t complex. Be wary of products that claim to be.

Our tendency to spin stories out of unrelated events leads some of us to believe horoscopes... and financial predictions.

Politics and trade issues have entered financial headlines once more. But can anyone try to pre-empt and position themselves for what could happen in the market, in a way that would let them profit from those predictions before others do?

Can investors consistently time the market? Will you be able to tell when to buy or sell? In this video, Jim Davis from Dimensional Fund Advisors runs more than 780 tests on data from 15 stock markets to see what the evidence says.

Every year brings its share of surprises. But how many of us could have imagined that 2016 would see the Chicago Cubs win the World Series, Bob Dylan receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, Donald Trump elected president, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average close out the year a whisker away from 20,000?

Our analysis of markets over a 15 year period shows that markets go up more often than come down. In fact, the best market days typically follow a correction.