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Time not timing - What happens when you miss the best days in the market?

Sébastien Van Passel

Jan 20, 2019
2 min

Time not timing - What happens when you miss the best days in the market?

We were in 2014 and for the first time I wrote about this topic. Today it's maybe a good "momentum" to think about wrong investment reactions during an uncertain time. Some people told me : "But why should I stay invested during this bad period when the stock markets are plunging?" and others expressed this common statement : "I'll wait for a better period to invest again!" A recent study made by Schroders among 22.000 European investors showed that 23% of investment exper

ETF's, instruments of diversification.

Sébastien Van Passel

Jun 15, 2015
3 min

ETF's, instruments of diversification.

Preliminaries : Since years, investors are used to select and buy Mutal Funds as instruments of diversification. A lot of products are available in the market but only a few that beat their benchmark on a long run. Thankfully for us, S&P and Moody's are thanks for us the gatekeepers of the mutual funds temple. They allow each investor to compare the performances of different fund houses in the market jungle.You can use their services to protect yourself from the subjectivit