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Weekly Market Insights – November 20, 2023

Cornerstone Financial Advisory

1,2,3 Stocks March Higher A better-than-anticipated consumer inflation number on Tuesday sent bond yields sharply lower, igniting a powerful, exceptionally broad-based rally that saw 91% of all New York Stock Exchange volume advancing in price and a similarly substantial advance (85%) on the NASDAQ. a Registered Investment Advisor.

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Is Active vs. Passive Actually Passé?

ClearMoney

Because early indexing didn’t spin its wheels in bottom-up company analysis or top-down economic trend forecasting, it became known as passive investing. Also blurring the line between active and passive is the fact that some investors may use index funds to pursue an active investment approach. Dimensional Japan Ltd.,

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10 Obstacles to Investing—and How to Overcome Them

ClearMoney

(Assuming an average 10% return, as the S&P 500 has returned historically, money invested in the stock market doubles every seven years.) You’re forgetting that diversification—spreading your investments across a large number of companies—is a powerful way to minimize risk. Fama and Kenneth R. 5 (2010): 1915–1947.

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Is It Time to Sell Stocks?

ClearMoney

Motivated by the substantial payoff associated with successful timing, researchers over the years have examined a wide range of strategies based on analysis of earnings, dividends, interest rates, economic growth, investor sentiment, stock price patterns, and so on. 8 We should not be surprised by these results. Dimensional Japan Ltd.,

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How to Become a Financial Advisor in India?

International College of Financial Planning

Soft Skills – The role of a financial advisor goes beyond reading numbers, interpreting them, and offering advice to clients. A bachelor’s degree in the field of finance, law, business, accounting, or economics is the minimum qualification you need to be a financial advisor in India.

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Market Review 2021: A Recovery Amid Challenges

ClearMoney

The distribution of vaccines and the easing of lockdowns were followed by an economic rebound, but the emergence of new variants would be a setback for the recovery. In addition to the effective vaccines, markets were buoyed by a number of other positive developments, including strong corporate earnings and increased consumer demand.

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Demystifying Systematic Fixed Income Investing

ClearMoney

This differentiates systematic investing from traditional indexing, which typically seeks to deliver market returns, and traditional active investing, which may seek outperformance by identifying so-called mispriced securities or timing markets. Decades of research on stock returns has produced a vast number of published factors.