Best Blogs of the Week #232

Best Blogs of the Week #232

Two posts this week to review. Both posts discuss an investing topic; one related to timing and the other to an asset class.

InvescoAre there ‘good months’ and ‘bad months’ to invest? – In 2008, at the depth of the global financial crisis, equity investors fled for the exits, but it wasn’t until 2013 that investors put meaningful amounts of capital back into the stock market. As a result, many of them missed the market’s turnaround, which started in 2009, and bought back in after stocks had risen. (In other words, they sold low and bought higher).

WisdomTree – Global Small-Cap Dividends Crushing It in 2016 – The real question, of course, is how this happened, with a secondary issue focusing on the potential robustness of those drivers looking into the future.

WisdomeTree Attribution