Quotes from Dejan Ilijevski

All available news, information, and expectations have already been priced in, says Dejan Ilijevski, investment manager and president of Sabela Capital Markets in Munster, Indiana. The only information that's not priced in is tomorrow's news, and news by its inherent definition is impossible to predict.

Although some investors may assume that higher inflation leads to lower stock performance, US market history shows that nominal annual stock returns are unrelated to inflation.

Disciplined investors who rely on low-cost index funds for the long term have done better than most of their peers and the professionals."

Generally, there is the fallacy that dividends are free money, by which I mean that many investors strictly buy dividend stocks to get the dividend income or bonus, says Dejan Ilijevski, investment advisor and president at Sabela Capital Markets in Munster, Indiana. Rather a dividend is simply a transfer of wealth from the company's books to the shareholder.

He says: "The markets are simply information-processing machines, quickly incorporating all available news and expectations.

High fees only guarantee that more wealth will trickle up from your account to the pockets of your broker or advisor," says Ilijevski. "Fees and costs squander returns."

Technical and fundamental analysis is usually useless as a trading edge,[...] Mindless strategies like mean reversion work until they don't and you suffer a blowout. Fundamentals are priced in. And no one can predict tomorrow's news.

The best way to implement the key principles is with low management fee index funds, which help you diversify, minimize costs, stay disciplined and capture market returns wherever they may occur," says Dejan Ilijevski, president at Sabela Capital Markets in Munster, Indiana.

The markets are simply information-processing machines, quickly incorporating all available news and expectations.

The most important feature to consider is cost, which has the potential to significantly impact returns over the long term. There is absolutely no reason to pay more than a few basis points to own an index fund.

To build wealth, an investor should [forget] about the daily financial weather, like market news and headlines, and instead concentrate on growth of wealth over time,