Eight Secrets to Improving Your Portfolio Returns

After this is done, don’t bother even pulling up the quoted market value on the Internet when you’re sitting in front of your monitor screen, bored. Your intention, in this situation, is to acquire equity in America, Inc. that you hope and expect to be worth far more in the ensuing decades. Gyrations, even on a two to three years basis, become meaningless in this scenario. Why, then, exert emotional energy of fluctuations of asset prices? Instead, every six months or year, meet with a qualified investment advisor that is well respected, has a good track record based upon conservative portfolio allocations designed to meet your individual needs and risk profile, and review your holdings. If the companies still appear sound, reasonably valued, and your outlook for cash requirements hasn’t changed, you may not need to do anything. If historical precedent over the past one hundred years remains true, you’ll end up with far more wealth than you would have by trading on your own or squirreling away assets into cash or commodities such as gold.

• Introduction
• Don’t Confuse Growth Rate with the Rate of Your Compounding
• Keep Turnover as Low as Possible
• Know the Power of Reinvested Dividends
• Do Your Portfolio an Enormous Favor: Take a College Course in Basic Accounting
• Stay Within Your Circle of Competence
• Ask the Peter Lynch Question
• How You Hold Your Investments Can Be a Multi-Million Dollar Decision
• Only Look at Market Quotations on a Quarterly Basis