Bonds may be safer than stocks in the short term, but they can actually be riskier in the long term. This is a quick chart of rolling 20-year returns of US stocks vs bonds using Shiller data, showing that there has never been a 20-year period in the US since 1871 where US bonds have […]
I’ve never considered myself the type of investor that tries to look for “the Next Microsoft”, but by that, I mean I don’t try and look for seed stage start-ups thinking they will be the one that can beat the odds and grow from zero to billions with seemingly little resistance. Over the past 10 […]
In July, GFM’s Tariq Dennison will be presenting two more webinars in cooperation with Interactive Brokers: On July 13th, also on cooperation with Eurex, Tariq will be answered frequently asked questions about European equities after COVID-19 and the Wirecard scandal, with actionable strategies using EuroSTOXX 50 and DAX futures. Register to attend live or to […]
US stock, bond, and real estate markets remain a top investment destination for foreign investors from around the world due to its well-respected rule of law and property rights, leading regulation, and strong financial privacy protections. What comes as a nasty surprise to many non-US investors into the US are the many tax traps that […]
Some of the most boring, but most useful posts on this website are simple, static lists of stocks with ready-to-click links to more information on them. Today, I wanted to run an updated list of HKEX-listed stocks with links to their dividend histories on AAStocks, and to some fundamental ratios on their Reuters pages. The […]
One of the most frequently asked questions I am sent is “what is the rate of return I should expect when I invest in the market”? With bonds, it is fairly easy to see that a short-term US Treasury note bought with a yield of, say, 2%, will return you 2% per year if held […]
Following the last post’s chart showing how 75% of the returns investing in the S&P 500 came from dividends, this chart by how much Vanguard Growth Underperformed the S&P 500 over the past 40 years. Not only did the growth fund provide turn an investor’s 1980 $100 into a significantly lower sum ($2,222 vs $5,280 […]
In the short term, stock returns are dominated by the ups and downs of price movements, in the long run, stock returns are dominated by dividends. A common question is “what percentage of stock returns come from dividends over the long run?”, to which I have a simple answer using the past 40 years of […]
Although recent protests have drawn more international news cameras than usual, international wealth management clients have compared opening an investment account Hong Kong to having one in Switzerland, Singapore, or South Florida (Miami) for decades if not since the World Wars. While Hong Kong vs Singapore may be the most overdone comparison in Asia, this […]
It is widely repeated in the investment community that the biggest difference in whether you earn high or low rates of return as a long-term investor is not your choice of an individual stock or bond, but how much you allocated overall to stocks vs bonds. The more you put in stocks, the more likely […]