Prosperity Trek by Prosperity Concierge » Stay the Course http://prosperityconcierge.com/trek The trek to prosperity, step by step. Improve cash flow, build net worth, enjoy life and give back. To earn, spend, save and invest for happiness and fulfillment. Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:20:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/ en hourly 1 Have the Right Temperament for Investing http://prosperityconcierge.com/trek/trek-how-to/building-how-to/stay-the-course-how-to/have-the-right-temperament-for-investing/ http://prosperityconcierge.com/trek/trek-how-to/building-how-to/stay-the-course-how-to/have-the-right-temperament-for-investing/#comments Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:17:39 +0000 Prosperity Concierge http://prosperityconcierge.com/trek/trek-how-to/building-how-to/stay-the-course-how-to/have-the-right-temperament-for-investing/ Warren Buffett, one of the world’s most successful investors, famously claimed that the most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. To be successful, you need to stay calm and rational during the market’s boom and bust cycles and avoid falling victim to the market’s herd instincts.

Even during dull market days, it takes

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Psychological experiments have shown that the stress induced by watching the market heave up and down may lead you to try to lock in your gains by selling your winners, often before you should. The market has always been unpredictable.

There are useful, productive

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]]> http://prosperityconcierge.com/trek/trek-how-to/building-how-to/investment-vehicles-how-to/market-volatility-behavior-decides-good-bad/feed/ 0 Protect Your Wealth by Minimizing, and Not Fearing, Market Volatility http://prosperityconcierge.com/trek/trek-how-to/building-how-to/stay-the-course-how-to/protect-wealth-minimizing-fearing-market-volatility/ http://prosperityconcierge.com/trek/trek-how-to/building-how-to/stay-the-course-how-to/protect-wealth-minimizing-fearing-market-volatility/#comments Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:59:41 +0000 Prosperity Concierge http://prosperityconcierge.com/trek/?p=8969 Volatility in the markets is often perceived as a risk to investors – keeping them out of the markets altogether and forcing them to store their wealth where they’ll earn a low return in “safe” investments. It’s true that in financial circles the definition of risk is volatility.

If volatility is keeping you out of the

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]]> http://prosperityconcierge.com/trek/trek-how-to/building-how-to/asset-allocation-how-to/buy-and-hold-to-build-wealth-and-avoid-timing-problem/feed/ 0 Why You Want to Invest Long-Term and Keep Fees Low – The Battle for Alpha http://prosperityconcierge.com/trek/trek-how-to/building-how-to/stay-the-course-how-to/invest-longterm-fees-battle-alpha/ http://prosperityconcierge.com/trek/trek-how-to/building-how-to/stay-the-course-how-to/invest-longterm-fees-battle-alpha/#comments Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:17:18 +0000 Prosperity Concierge http://prosperityconcierge.com/trek/?p=6843 Alice Schroeder, Bloomberg columnist, wrote about the Wall Street proclivity to stretch for alpha – the desire to get investment returns that beat the market. This stretch for alpha stretches past moral bounds, illegally using insider information to get that edge.

“The goal of investing is to get an edge, whereas the securities laws presume all

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Even missing only a few of the markets’ best days can significantly diminish investor returns.

Patience also affords the benefits of compounding – of earning interest on additional income or reinvested dividends and

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Failing to trade in step with the market can be ruinous to those not committed to keeping losses small. A stock can

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“We make an annual appointment, rebalance, and then I don’t look at my 401(k). I don’t worry about it when it struggles, and leaving it alone and keeping it diversified has helped it grow nicely, even though we’ve

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]]> http://prosperityconcierge.com/trek/trek-how-to/building-how-to/stay-the-course-how-to/between-allocation-and-rebalancing/feed/ 0 Stay the Course with Your Investment Plan http://prosperityconcierge.com/trek/trek-how-to/building-how-to/stay-the-course-how-to/investment-plan/ http://prosperityconcierge.com/trek/trek-how-to/building-how-to/stay-the-course-how-to/investment-plan/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:25:56 +0000 Prosperity Concierge http://prosperityconcierge.com/trek/trek-how-to/investment-plan/ A key element of your investment strategy is to “stay the course”. Inherent in this phrase is an assumption that you are on a course and a plea that you not deviate from it. So it is with investing. It’s important that you have a course and that you stay on it.

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