Salient to Investors:
James O’Shaughnessy of O’Shaughnessy Asset Mgmt said:
- Fidelity found that their best performing accounts were those of people who forgot they had an account with them.
- The shorter you hold a stock, the more likely you are to lose money.
Barry Ritholtz found that when families fought over inherited assets and did not touch those assets for say 10 or 20 years, those years were the best period of performance.
Richard Bernstein of Richard Bernstein Advisors found:
- Over the period December 31, 1993 to December 31, 2013 the average mutual fund investor underperformed every investment asset class except Asian emerging market and Japanese equities, and even underperformed cash.
- The average mutual fund investor would have improved performance by simply buying and holding any asset class other than Asian emerging market or Japanese equities.
- The underperformance suggests the average mutual fund investor consistently bought assets that were overvalued and sold assets that were undervalued.
- When chaos occurred, the average mutual fund investor ran away.
Read the full article at http://www.businessinsider.com/forgetful-investors-performed-best-2014-9
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