GYC Insights
Articles on real-life financial issues written to educate and enlighten.
Dividends Are Like Desserts
Dividends doesn’t magically appear out of nowhere, it represents a portion of the company’s value being paid out to shareholders. A slice of cake once eaten, means less of the cake remains
How Much Cash Do I Need?
An important determinant is what your goals are and what is the priority and importance of achieving them. A robust investment plan can place the life you want within your reach.
The Active Component in Passive Investing
Two well known Growth indices, the S&P 500 Growth index and the Russell 1000 Growth index rose by +42.68%. and +30.03% respectively during the 2023 recovery. Why the big difference in performance?
Buy Now or Wait?
Waiting to enter the market will result in opportunity costs, which adds up to a lot. But should you enter all at once, or do so in installments?
Most Stocks Are Bad For Your Wealth
97.6% of stocks in aggregate generated zero wealth, while global stocks over the same period had a cumulative return of +845.86%.
Are You Still Making These Mistakes?
Trying to time the market, focusing on headlines, and chasing past performance. Which of these mistakes are you still making?
The End Of The Rally?
Following each all-time high, less than 1 out of 10 times has the market ended negative 1 year out. When you extend the time horizon to 5 years or more, has not ended negative, that number drops to 0.
Choosing The Right Investment Manager
94% of managers that charge the highest fees in the industry underperformed their benchmark in the past 20 years.
The Best Inflation Hedge
From transport prices to a bowl of fishball noodles, recent inflation spikes have made it an important element to consider for financial planning.
Why Are Market Prices Volatile?
Every single day, $675.8 billion is traded in the market. In the short term, prices vary for a wide host of reasons, but it is the fundamentals that set the stock prices in the long-run.
The Enemy of Failure
It has been proven time and time again that we are unable to predict the future. How then can we prepare for the financial impact of unforeseen events? (i.e. GFC, Covid, Rate hikes, etc.)
What’s Hot, What’s Not?
Roughly a third of equity funds were gone after 10 years. Are your assets invested in a strategy that can outlive you?
Investing Is Tough, Even For Professionals
More than half (55%) of equity funds out there failed to survive and more than 82% failed to deliver returns above their benchmark for investors across a 20-year period.
Global Stocks: A Long Run Review
Bear markets can have negative per annum returns while having positive average annualised rolling returns. The individual investor experience is better expressed through the latter.
The High Cost of Complexity
Financial institutions being accused of mis-selling products for profit is a tale as old as time, and as long as their revenue models do not change, then it is unlikely to be the last as well.
How Losing Gets You Ahead
If you knew that you will be going through some of the worst market declines in history within the next 10 years, would you go ahead to invest? Or would you wait out the crisis and invest later?
An Opportunity
The recent pullback came back as expected, with many economics calling for it to be just the beginning of a larger correction. But when considering several points of data, market signals, and financial evidence, we believe this presents an opportunity get into the market and supercharge those long-term returns.
It Is Possible To Beat The S&P 500
The S&P 500 is known as a broad base allocation to U.S. stocks. Accessing these companies through an index fund or ETF, you’d think that you’d be investing into the five hundred largest companies in the U.S. And you’d be wrong.