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Investing - Theory, News & General • What Part of "Stay the Course" is So Hard for People to Understand?

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Recency bias and greed.

I’d love to see a thread titled “Dumping US and going 100% International stock”.

I wasn’t here back then (may have been the old Diehards forum) but does anyone remember if there were regular topics about going 100% S&P500 back in the early to mid 2000s?
I don't know about 2000. 2007, definitely.

In the early 2000s tech was crashing and the S&P 500 along with it, so I don't think so. But the first edition of Jeremy Siegel's Stocks for the Long Run was published in 1994, and Peter Lynch wrote an article in 1995 for Worth, "Fear of Crashing," which said
THE CASE FOR ZERO PERCENT BONDS--THAT IS, YOU SHOULDN'T OWN ANY

This brings me to an investment strategy I described in my second book, Beating the Street. If I convince you of its merits, you will never again buy a bond or a bond fund, and you'll stay fully invested in stocks forever....

Here's how it works. You sink 100 percent of your investment capital into a portfolio of com-
panies that pay regular dividends. You could do this the easy way and invest in an S&P 500 index fund, currently yielding about 3 percent. Or you could select a few "dividend achievers," as identified by Moody's....
If Peter Lynch was saying that, I feel sure that people in investment forums were, too.

Statistics: Posted by nisiprius — Sun Jan 19, 2025 7:32 pm — Replies 113 — Views 6553



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