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5/16 Great Customer Experiences Don't Just Happen, the #1 Principal in our blog series, Core Principals for Delivering an Exceptional Customer Experience. - by Brendan Yeager
5/14 The living-standard replacement ratio, or LSRR has advisors rethinking the way they can help clients save enough for retirement. Other ratios focus solely on income in your working years, the LSRR takes a personalized approach to help measure retirement needs by factoring in home ownership, savings, and dependents (aging parents & kids that remain in your nest). LSRR makes a lot of sense given evolving retirement needs. –by Anita Lo
5/10 Market News World reported on DALBAR's Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavior study saying, "If you want to be an investor, don’t be an average one." - by Jamie Josephs
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News & Stories
Investors are losing thousands trying to 'time' the market
Dalbar also found that over a 30-year period it gets worse — the average investor loses almost 6 percent a year compared with the market's return.
NY Post | 5/5/2019
The signal for avoiding market’s next painful downturn comes from within
...But after reading my column last week about the Dalbar Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavior study showing just how lousy investor timing was in 2018, he wanted help to improve his timing...
The Seattle Times | 4/10/2019
WEALTH HEALTH: Investors failed the downturn test of 2018
The latest Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavior study from Dalbar Inc. showed that average investors lagged the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index both in good times and bad during 2018, but investors got it the most wrong late in the year when the market got ugly.
Dalbar’s study, which has measured investment results compared to the market for a quarter-century now, has long shown that investments do better than investors. The problem is that investors typically buy into stocks and funds only after there has been a run of good performance and bail out when they suffer declines.
Wicked Local | 4/12/2019
Wealth Matters: Stock market ‘guru’ same as ‘charlatan’
We are all influenced by our emotions, our hopes and fears. Such is being human. But these emotions do not always lead to the best decisions. When you add our attitudes about money to the mix, the results can be quite complicated.
Daily Republic | 4/8/2019
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Latest News
- Surprise! Investors Beat the S&P in January
But not enough to pay for the sins of 2018!Updated: April 18th - Average Investor blown away by market turmoil in 2018
DALBAR study shows the Average Equity Fund Investor lost twice the money of the S&P in 2018Updated: March 25th
DALBAR study shows older women defy age and gender stereotypes when it comes to using technology to manage finances with paperless statementsUpdated: February 19th
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