Scott Kahan
Scott Kahan
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In the last several years there hasn't been much of a downside. There hasn't been much of a downside, so people have been spoiled. They don't have a clue as to how it really works.
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I know people think three days is long term in the market these days. But if you're a long-term investor, 2, 3, 4 percent swings, which are big moves in a day, are meaningless when you look back.
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In sector plays, you should buy after a down period, when the numbers look terrible. But when you look at a fund, if similar funds have done well and one fund has done poorly, you don't use that logic.
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Doubling the student loan payment will reduce the time it takes to pay the loan, but the total savings in interest will be marginal.
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Don't look at the past six months. Look at the past five, 10 or 20 years of returns.
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It looks like he can save a lot of money each year since he has low expenses.
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The wild card is capital gains distributions. So you have to be very careful when you're changing your portfolio.
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A lot of people just look at how the fund did last year and the Morningstar stars, but that's just the tip of the iceberg.
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It's been a hard lesson for some, and a good lesson for most people.
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It sounds like a broken record, and it's boring. It's something we definitely don't want to keep rubbing in people's faces. But it goes to show that diversification works.
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People shouldn't chase returns. The average investor looks back at returns and buys based on performance. But people have to look at the worst-performing sectors, not the best-performing ones. That's where the smart investor goes.
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People should look at this market as a great learning experience. The best learning experience of how much risk you want to take is going through a down market.
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People tend to believe that whatever is doing well at the moment will always do well. In the 1990s everybody said value investing was dead and never to return, but managers who stuck to their guns obviously proved that wasn't the case.
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For people who are looking to get into this market, they probably should not have more than 20 percent in tech.