We and many others spend a lot of time and effort trying to educate people about the importance of keeping costs low as part of a sensible long term investment strategy. The evidence of the importance of costs is so overwhelming that you really have to take your hat off to the marketing departments and sales […]
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The core principle of an evidence-based approach is that risk and return are related. The remaining principles of the evidence based approach flow from this core principle. In this second installment in our series on Evidence-Based Investing we present some of the evidence which demonstrates that over time a buy and hold “passive” investment strategy will outperform an “active” strategy […]
The lead article in the current issue of National Geographic, “Why Do Many Reasonable People Doubt Science?” is worth a read for those bewildered why more people haven’t embraced the science of investing. Many investors still seem willing to pay high fees for professionals to try to beat the stock market when the evidence demonstrates that investment returns are driven by risk […]
One of the core principles of Chalten’s Evidence Based Approach is that investors should not pay a professional money manager to beat the market by picking stocks or trying to time the market’s ups and downs. Over the long run, it doesn’t work. The investment returns you can expect to receive should depend only on how much and what […]
In July, 2014, Vanguard Canada published a report titled Global equities: Balancing home bias and diversification – A Canadian investor’s perspective. Using data from the IMF, Vanguard showed that Canadians on average allocate almost 60% of their equity holdings to Canadian stocks, a significant overweight considering that Canadian stocks represent less than 4% of the global […]