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, Inc. is the financial community’s leading independent expert for evaluating, auditing and rating business practices, customer performance, product quality and service. Launched in 1976, has earned the recognition for consistent and unbiased evaluations of Investment companies, registered investment advisers, insurance companies, broker/dealers, retirement plan providers and financial professionals.
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8/6 Why DALBAR believes the latest ESG proposal by the DOL will harm America’s retirement security…and how to fix it. - by Cory Clark
8/5 In this article from NAPA, "DOL’s ESG Proposal Blasted by Commenters," find out what DALBAR has to say about Pecuniary Factors... - by Jamie Josephs
8/5 DALBAR Finds Critical Omission in DOL's Proposed ESG Rule!
Click here to download the Abstract from our recent survey, "Financial Success Drivers of DC Plans." - by Jamie Josephs
8/4 A great explanation of how investors reacted to the market crisis and how their reactions affected their returns, "Some TSP Investors Have Tried Trading the Pandemic." - by Jamie Josephs
7/25 Great advice from this CNBC article citing QAIB, "Op-ed: Investing shouldn’t be like gambling. Here’s how not to go wrong." - by Jamie Josephs
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News & Stories
Opinion: Bond blowout outwits investors
Once upon a time John and Jane Public were terrible at timing the stock market. They sold stocks at the wrong time, bought them back at the wrong time, and ended up doing worse than someone who just owned the overall S&P 500 SPX, -0.07% and forgot about it. But this year, John and Jane have made a big advance. No longer are they bad just at timing the stock market. Now they’re bad at timing the bond market, as well.
Marketwatch | 6/18/2020
Fixed-Income, Target-Date Fund Investors Most Aggressive With Q1 Withdrawals
Investors in what have historically been the most conservative mutual fund asset classes were actually the most spooked into making withdrawals during the first quarter’s Covid-related market volatility, according to new research from Dalbar.
FA Magazine | 5/19/2020
Should Investors have FOMO?
Nobody knows if we have reached the turning point in the year's pandemic-induced market meltdown. The markets are not quite as scary as they were at the beginning of March when some markets lost nearly 20% of their value in a single day.
Some recoveries are rather swift, while others take a little more time, but there is one way to know when the market has reached its bottom … just kidding .... there is no way of knowing, and that's exactly why the average investor should not be bailing out of their positions when storm seas get rough.
Financial Independence Hub | 4/20/2020
Staying Steady in a Bear Market
Financial journalists tend to only write about and discuss what to do in a bear market once the bear market has begun. People are usually reactive, rather than proactive, when it comes to investing. When stocks go up, they buy more. When stocks go down, they sell. This childish behavior accounts for the dramatic differences between investor returns and investment returns extensively documented by firms such as Dalbar and Morningstar. Buying high and selling low is an all too frequently experienced investment disaster.
The Physician Philosopher | 3/21/2020
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