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How to control your investment costs?

It is now possible to everyone to access cost-effective instruments under a passive and diversified approach, such as ETFs and a cost-effective broker.

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A look into the market crystal ball

High valuations make it improbable to repeat the recent high returns in stocks and bonds and investors need to manage their return expectations accordingly.

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Partly controllable investment factors (e.g. taxes)

You have no influence on the macro-variables such as interest rates, inflation and the currency exchanges, but you can control a limited number of elements.

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Lessons from the Yale Model for Private Investors

In contrast to the Yale model, a passive approach has produced the best returns over the past decade and is likely to remain the best investment strategy in the future for individual investors.

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What is the Yale investment model?

Like private investors over the last decade, the vast majority of institutional investors would have been better off managing their funds passively with negligible costs.

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Subjective investing with Black-Litterman

Instead of following blindly historical data, investors can integrate subjective views. This is mostly justified in case of market anomalies, but dangerous in panic situations.

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Factors for private investors

A factor approach can lead to excessive transaction costs, increasing liquidity risk or entering complex derivative transactions.

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Inflation, Interest Rates and Forex (Q2 2021)

Various forecasters have changed their view of the dollar and now expect a robust development rather than weakness due to a possible rise in interest rates.

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Factor investing: Theory

Factors are investment characteristics and investors expect premia through exposure to the corresponding risks

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Active and passive management

Numerous studies have revealed that on average, the investor will lose his bets with the market. With passive investing, you invest in a collection of stocks representing the market.