Get into your time machine, travel back and ask your great-great grandmother to invest for you. According to the Credit Suisse Global Investment Returns Yearbook, if your great-great-grandmother had invested one dollar in the US stock market in 1900, that would be worth just under $70,000 by the end of 2019, or $40,000 if youContinue reading “Why it pays to invest in the stock market.”
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Investing and survivor bias
Money, time, investing and survivor bias. What time travel could teach us. Imagine you’d bought Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google in the early days and avoided all the duds that have failed… You might develop a distorted view of your own brilliance. You might have survivor bias. How to counteract survivor bias in investing. #10ThingsMoney
Money and time
What would you pack in your time machine to travel back and also possibly forward in time? In the UK, 97% of our money exists only as squiggles on a computer screen. Governments effectively wave the magic wand of belief to give value to otherwise worthless pieces of paper and metal, and in another stepContinue reading “Money and time”
Linda Davies 