DatuuNoon retweeted
Everyone talks about long-term investing, but few people actually do it.
The biggest reason for underperformance both with retail as well as professional fund managers.
Investors unconsciously optimize for 1-year returns instead of 10-year returns...
Great read by Mauboussin.
DatuuNoon retweeted
"A study from Fidelity analysed the performance of accounts to determine which type of investors received the best returns. Over a ten-year period, the clients that did the best were the ones who were dead and the second-best group were clients who had forgotten they had investments!"馃槀
DatuuNoon retweeted
The stock market is a triumph of human progress and ingenuity. You pay ~$0 in costs to have an ownership stake in the business of a ton of multinational corporations while you sit in your bathroom, and when you die in that bathroom, the ownership passes to your heirs.
DatuuNoon retweeted
Holding period.
The average investor holding period has fallen from 5-7 years to 5-7 months.
Perhaps this is one of the reasons why many investors cannot beat the market.
It is because the long term investors have mostly become short term traders.
DatuuNoon retweeted
Replying to @natstewart5 @ElliotTurn
Agreed. Over decades, my consistent and biggest mistakes were selling too early. The ones I kept that stay flat or go down have a smaller and smaller impact to total returns. The ones sold too early have grown in magnitude.








