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The truth seems to love the small print.
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Seems
Small Print
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History depends on who is telling the story.
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Depends
Stories
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Arbitrage human nature. It's not going to change any time soon.
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Arbitrage
Human Nature
Humans
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You'll get nowhere buying stocks just because they have a great story.
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Buying
Nowhere
Great Story
Just Because
Stocks
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If you're indexing to the S&P 500, you're buying the most expensive names in the market.
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Buying
Expensive
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Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through.
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Depression
Destroyed
Greed
Any
Been
Portfolio
Through
Ever
Recession
Value
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The average investor does significantly worse than a simple index... It's literally because of the way our brains are wired.
James O'shaughnessy / Author
Average
Brains
Investor
Wired
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If you are an investor who's retired and hopes to live off the income that your portfolio is generating, then we would focus just on the dividend yield.
James O'shaughnessy / Author
Income
Retired
Yield
Portfolio
Dividend
Generating
Hopes
Investor
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Industries that make goods and services that people have to buy, regardless of economic circumstances, are bound to do well whatever the economic conditions.
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Circumstances
Conditions
Goods
Industries
Regardless
Services
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It seems that the one thing that doesn't change is people's reaction to short-term conditions and their axiomatic ability to perpetuate them far into the future.
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Conditions
Short Term
Change Future People
Perpetuate
Reaction
The One Thing
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Stocks change. Industries change. But the underlying reasons certain stocks are good investments remain the same. Only the fullness of time reveals which are the most sound.
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Fullness
Change Time Good
Industries
Reveals
Stocks
Underlying
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We believe that people moving their portfolios to an overweight in bonds will be disappointed over the long-term and will significantly underperform an asset allocation that over-weights equities.
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Allocation
Disappointed
Long Term
Overweight
Believe People Will
Asset
Bonds
Portfolio
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If you're an investor who wants a little bit more from the capital-appreciation side of things, but still likes this concept of getting 'paid by the company,' then we would tell that investor to pursue shareholder yield.
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Likes
Pursue
Yield
Concept
Investor
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If you look back to the most spectacular blow ups in history, you can always tie them to a couple things: They were extraordinary complicated strategies that maybe even the practitioners themselves didn't understand, and they were overleveraged.
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Blow
Extraordinary
Spectacular
History Always Look
Strategies
Tie
Ups
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By relying on the statistical information rather than a gut feeling, you allow the data to lead you to be in the right place at the right time. To remain as emotionally free from the hurly burley of the here and now is one of the only ways to succeed.
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Data
Information
Right Place
Succeed
Allow
Emotionally
Feeling
Gut
Gut Feeling
Relying
Statistical
Ways
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Historically, we have always seen reversion to the mean. After stocks have had an unusually great 10 or 20 years, they typically turn in subpar results over the next 10 or 20, and after bad 10- to 20-year stretches, the next 10 to 20 tend to be above average.
James O'shaughnessy / Author
Average
Results
Great Always Bad
Historically
Stocks
Unusually
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We continue to advise that investors remain committed to a patient, long-term outlook and that the best way to do well in stocks is to use a disciplined, time-tested strategy that has the benefit of empirically tested results over a variety of market environments.
James O'shaughnessy / Author
Advise
Best Way
Committed
Investors
Long Term
Outlook
Patient
Strategy
Tested
Variety
Benefit
Disciplined
Empirically
Environments
Stocks
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