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Why timing the market could lose you 0.5pc a year
Analysis of Australian investor behaviour between 2004 and 2013 – before and after the GFC – found those chasing returns were worse off than their “buy-and-hold” peers.
Duncan BurnsContributorThis year has generally been bad news for most Australian investors. With high inflation and interest rate increases contributing to financial market volatility, we are seeing a lot more red in our brokerage accounts than we have in quite a while.
To add to the list of worries, the fixed income component many rely on for portfolio stability seems to have temporarily come “unfixed”, with losses mounting in both bond and equity holdings.
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