Stocktake: Reasons not to be cheerful about stocks
One strategist says he has never seen market so highly valued in a time of such uncertainty
Global stocks: what’s cheap and what’s not?
Health threat posed by coronavirus means cheap stocks could still fall in value
Emotional time travel: Will you handle the next bear market?
We should be more understanding of bad decisions made in hot emotional states
Investors benefit from less stress and better information
A fact-based world view is more useful to investors than the siren song of news
Are record corporate profit margins sustainable?
Bears see this as temporary but bulls think profit margins have risen to a permanently higher plateau
Investing: why it feels good to conform
Is it really that difficult to go against the herd? In a nutshell, yes
Stock markets, career risk and the safety of the herd
Why is herding such a problem in financial markets?
Herd mentality is driving stock markets
Stocktake: despite strong market rebound, stocks likely to retest recent lows
Guesswork masquerades as expertise in stock market forecasts
Expert predictions tend to be no more accurate than chance, research indicates
The best investment strategy? Doing nothing
‘Don’t just do something, stand there’ might be best, like Buffett’s ‘benign neglect, bordering on sloth’
Are active funds a better bet in bad markets?
Stock-pickers promise gains in next slump despite years of underperformance by funds
Is it time to ‘just say no’ to the US stock market?
The last time fund managers were nearly as concerned as now was in the late 1990s
Growing number of stocks fall into corrections
Stocktake: market breadth is a crucial indicator of underlying market health
Volatility in the markets not the monster many make it out to be
Sense of perspective required to put ‘big, scary numbers into context’
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