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A 0 investment would buy two shares if the shares were selling at . At per share, it would buy two shares and a fraction of another share. Direct investment plan (DRIP) investors are credited with the whole shares and the fractional shares, which are deposited into their accounts. Such dollar amount investing makes it easy to follow a dollar-cost averaging strategy. Website: www.directinvesting.com Twitter: twitter.com Facebook: www.facebook.com
A 0 investment would buy two shares if the shares were selling at . At per share, it would buy two shares and a fraction of another share. Direct investment plan (DRIP) investors are credited with the whole shares and the fractional shares, which are deposited into their accounts. Such dollar amount investing makes it easy to follow a dollar-cost averaging strategy. Website: www.directinvesting.com Twitter: twitter.com Facebook: www.facebook.com
ifarcs.com – http – Global diversification is a good idea because the international market is increasingly important in the world economy. The United States used to be a much larger percentage of the world market. It declined from 68% of the global equity value to 46% in 2004. As of 2010, the US has declined to about 43% of the world total market value. There are additional risk factors in international markets that can both smooth out your volatility and increase your expected returns. To be effective, a portfolio cannot afford to exclude international investments. Regional bias, also known as home bias, is the tendency for investors to hold a higher percentage of their portfolio in their home country than would be suggested by the weighting of their country relative to the rest of the world. For example, as of 4/30/2010, the United States made up 43% of the total global market capitalization or .6 Trillion of the .3 Trillion global market. An American investor who has a higher percentage than this in US equities is exhibiting regional bias. Even when it comes to international investing, regional bias is also present, as shown in “Home Bias in Foreign Investment Decisions” (Ke, Ng, and Wang, 2006). Specifically, American investors are more likely to overweigh foreign companies that have a strong American presence (eg, Sony, Toyota, BP). The extent of regional bias around the world is pervasive and surprisingly high, as illustrated by data from a 1997 IMF survey of …
ifarcs.com – http – ifabt.com – Mark Hebner answers the following questions for a financial Advisor Conference in India. 1. How did you go about getting started on your path toward becoming an investment advisor focusing on passive investments? 2. How do you get investors to earn your trust and pay you across the internet? 3. What made you select a ‘fee-only’ model?
ifarcs.com – http – ifabt.com – Mark Hebner answers the following questions for a financial Advisor Conference in India. 1. How did you go about getting started on your path toward becoming an investment advisor focusing on passive investments? 2. How do you get investors to earn your trust and pay you across the internet? 3. What made you select a ‘fee-only’ model?
