Why timing the market could lose you 0.5pc a year

contributing to financial market volatility, we are seeing a lot more red in our brokerage accounts than we have in quite a while.

Vanguard analysis of Australian investor behaviour between 2004 and 2013 – before and after the height of the global financial crisis – found that investors chasing returns were actually worse off than their “buy-and-hold” counterparts. Emotions lead investors astray in other ways too. Another common misstep relates to the selection of investments. For example, when investors dumped money into equity mutual funds in financial year 2000, the majority of inflows went towards the internet- and technology-focused funds that were delivering exceptional returns at that time.

What lessons can investors take away to avoid these self-sabotaging behaviours and improve their results?

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