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Investment Lessons

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In the FT, looking back at ten years of The Long View, John Authers offers investment lessons that may be summarized in five points: Always worry about costs and don’t try to outsmart the market. That is, hold index funds. Rebalancing pays off. Since getting the timing right is very hard, being out of the market is as risky as being in it. To beat the market, buying at low prices is key. But know what you know and what you don’t. Public markets are efficient. Money isn’t everything; in fact it’s not among the things that really matter.

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In the FT, looking back at ten years of The Long View, John Authers offers investment lessons that may be summarized in five points:

  • Always worry about costs and don’t try to outsmart the market. That is, hold index funds.
  • Rebalancing pays off.
  • Since getting the timing right is very hard, being out of the market is as risky as being in it.
  • To beat the market, buying at low prices is key. But know what you know and what you don’t. Public markets are efficient.
  • Money isn’t everything; in fact it’s not among the things that really matter.
Dirk Niepelt
Dirk Niepelt is Director of the Study Center Gerzensee and Professor at the University of Bern. A research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London), CESifo (Munich) research network member and member of the macroeconomic committee of the Verein für Socialpolitik, he served on the board of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics and was an invited professor at the University of Lausanne as well as a visiting professor at the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) at Stockholm University.

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