http://www.georgeemsden.co.uk/2009/07/how-long-is-a-piece-of-string/ Guidance with a Difference for People with Cancer Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.georgeemsden.co.uk/2009/07/how-long-is-a-piece-of-string/#comment-293 There’s gold in them thar hills! * — George Emsden Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:43:15 +0000 http://www.georgeemsden.co.uk/?p=2095#comment-293 <p>[...] Lastly for now, let’s look at the apparently riskiest investment option of  all, the Stock Market. We all know share prices and dividends can go up and down, i.e. market risk. Beating the Stock Market in the long-term is to put it mildly difficult, but if you can simply match an index in the long-term, you can do well. At this point, advisers often get tied up in arguments about which style of investment is best – active fund management, i.e. picking stocks, or passive fund management, i.e. following an index, see  http://www.georgeemsden.co.uk/2009/07/how-long-is-a-piece-of-string/ [...]</p> [...] Lastly for now, let’s look at the apparently riskiest investment option of  all, the Stock Market. We all know share prices and dividends can go up and down, i.e. market risk. Beating the Stock Market in the long-term is to put it mildly difficult, but if you can simply match an index in the long-term, you can do well. At this point, advisers often get tied up in arguments about which style of investment is best – active fund management, i.e. picking stocks, or passive fund management, i.e. following an index, see  http://www.georgeemsden.co.uk/2009/07/how-long-is-a-piece-of-string/ [...]

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