The Performance Of US Small Investors

I wrote that article that the average small investor would be best if you did not want to care for your investment. (I'd rather leave it alone on your investment)

The Openfolio side of the small investors could exchange their investments and their returns to the ideas of each others mistakes and learn from.

The data obtained showed that the average American investor returns have fallen far short of the S & P 500 US stock index 0.25% from last year's performance as well.

One third of investors has achieved positive returns, the others tumbled, so that the average yield was formed in 2015:

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Investor-Performance-US-Region:

This distinction was held in 2016, the investors, did not return from a week is not worth too much to conclude:

YTD 2016:

(Only in parentheses, the year started quite badly on the stock exchanges, as is shown in the figure. Again China is the main theme, there are quite nervous mood on the leading stock exchanges around the world.)

From this information it is possible to deduce the old established that most investors it would achieve most if we do not want to do anything, just contenting itself with the average. I wrote more about it here already: Who wants to be average?

The Performance Of US Small Investors

Just for the sake of curiosity, the teachers' portfolio last year was the most highest dumped in the Power industry, obviously they in energy stocks and bonds in their portfolio, so they're due to low oil prices suffered the largest losses.

Best-Profession-Teachers:

Finally, a figure that actively managed funds (in this case, the hedge funds) tend to perform below the market, but at least asking for a lot of active portfolio management in return. (2-3% per year plus 20% performance fee, while their performance generally lags behind even the simple index-tracking funds, too.)

Buy-And-Hold Strategy:

It seems that the simple buy-and-hold strategy when you buy near the low-cost stock index and sit on it for years, yet proves to be unbeatable.