Quotes About Market

AIG's failure revealed systemic problems in the OTC derivatives market that went well beyond the failure of a single market participant.

It is not my belief that we need greater government regulation of hedge funds with respect to the systemic risk they create.

When it comes to policies of central bankers, the biggest systemic risk we have... are those policies.

The beauty of the free market is that everyone gets what they want. With governmentally imposed systems, it is always one size fits all.

Blue oceans are right next to you in every industry.

I hate weekends because there is no stock market.

There's only one problem with market timing: It doesn't work.

The category of small-cap value represents approximately 3 percent of the capitalization of the broad U.S. market.

Investors who followed a broadly diversified asset allocation that included a total market fund and a small value index fund would have faired very well during the past decade.

The point on Figure 6-8 that is most interesting is a portfolio representing 70 percent in the broad market and 30 percent in the small value index. Over a 30-year period, a mix of 70 percent in the total market and 30 percent in the small-cap value index would have increased U.S. equity returns by 2.0 percent with very little increase in observed portfolio risk. Figure

Stock investors should expect periods of time when equities do not make money after inflation. It is the nature of investment risk. This is also why time in the market is critical to stock investors. In the long run, equities have outpaced inflation by a wide margin, and they are expected to remain one of the best real return investments in the future. You have to stay invested during all market conditions to benefit from the gains. U.S.

Markowitz's ideas on stock diversification eventually became known as efficient market theory (EMT). This is the general concept that markets are efficiently pricing securities based on known information, and therefore a market portfolio is the most efficient portfolio.

It is not prudent to attempt to switch and swap asset classes based on short-term market predictions.

Trying to consistently pick investments that are going to beat their benchmarks is like trying to win a marathon wearing muddy boots. There is a lot of drag, and your odds of winning are very low. The high costs associated with attempting to beat the market will almost guarantee sluggish results.

Overconfident investors generally believe that they have more knowledge and information than they actually have. As a result, they tend to trade too much and underperform the market.

the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas—that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out.

escuchar atentamente a todo aquel que tenga una opinión para compartir y no solo a los autoproclamados expertos. También implica aprender del otro, del mercado y de los errores que se cometen a fin de llegar a un lugar original y radicalmente nuevo. Quizá lo más importante sea hacerlo divirtiéndose, con D mayúscula.

the market has been anthropomorphized. It is not created by us but creates us. That's what the market distates. If Jesus can talk to you, the market can talk to you.

Our leaders keep saying phrases like, "Let the market decide." or "The market will get to the efficient outcome." Really? The market is a very flawed institution that does not deserve the nearly religious kind of endorsement of it that our leaders are eager to provide over and over again.

When your neighbor tells you that you can't lose money buying (fill in the blank here) that is probably a good sign that it is time to get out of that type of investment.

Bargains and Rip-Offs

it is thought to be somehow related to Adam Smith's invisible hand, the workings of which are both overstated and mysterious.

Casi siempre el mejor enfoque a los problemas de contaminación es gravar el comportamiento perjudicial y dejar que las fuerzas del mercado determinen la respuesta del coste incrementado.

professional money managers perform no better than simple market averages