Re:How housing became the world’s biggest asset class
by throw0101a on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @12:47PM
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> There’s been some research lately about whether Private Equity outperformance is partly driven by the illiquidity making it harder for investors to dump their positions in a moment of panic.
There are apocryphal stories of studies purporting to find that the best performing investment accounts are those that belong to people who are either dead or had forgotten about their account:
Generally, even if one invested lump sums right at market peaks, just before crashes, you'd still get a decent returns as long money was not withdrawn:
There are apocryphal stories of studies purporting to find that the best performing investment accounts are those that belong to people who are either dead or had forgotten about their account:
* https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-the-buy-and-play-dead-...
* https://twocents.lifehacker.com/the-best-investors-literally...
Generally, even if one invested lump sums right at market peaks, just before crashes, you'd still get a decent returns as long money was not withdrawn:
* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2014/02/worlds-worst-market...
Though the best strategy for most people seems to be to just put away a little every money in a total market passive index fund:
* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/even-god-couldnt-beat-dollar-co...