Lessons from 100 years of capitalism
If you had invested in the US share market over the past century, you would have participated in one of the greatest wealth creation stories ever recorded. A dollar broadly invested in the US share market 100 years ago would have compounded by a staggering 1,500,000% over the course of the century. It’s an extraordinary . . .
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MacDonald Wealth Winter Update
The best time to have a fire drill is when the building’s not already burning. The reason is simple, because any mistakes made during a drill are much less expensive than mistakes made during the real thing. Why do we mention this? Because if we can extend this analogy to investment markets, the markets were . . .
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The World Cup stock market effect: Is it an actual thing?
by Robin Powell from The Evidence Based Investor. The World Cup stock market effect, the idea that football’s biggest tournament reaches into share prices, has been a fixture of the financial pages for years. The attention shock is real and enormous. But a new working paper suggests the market response is far smaller than . . .
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