ABCs of Investing

This post is the second post on asset allocation - feel free to read the introductory post on asset allocation to brush up.
Non-correlation
If you own investments that all go up or down in price at the same time (ie they are correlated), then you will experience large increases and decreases in your portfolio (known as [...]

Have a great holiday!
There won’t be any more “regular” posts until Jan 5, so until then you can peruse the archives or better yet - forget about money and investing for a bit and enjoy your holidays.

Dollar cost averaging refers to making investment purchases at regular intervals of time.  The purpose is to average out the price (cost) of the investment by buying investment shares at different prices over time.  This strategy reduces the risk of making a large lump sum investment and then watching the market fall shortly after, which [...]