Gold (+64%) was the best performing major asset in 2025 while Bitcoin (-6%) was the worst. Something we haven't seen before in any calendar year (the inverse of 2013). $GLD $BTC
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@ETFhearsay And also Pacer and Allianz with outcome/buffered series quarterly and six months respectively (Allianz also has some 6 mo outcome period) - but at lower expense ratios
Michael Mauboussin:
“Myopia: the more frequently we evaluate our portfolios, the more likely we are to see losses and hence suffer from loss aversion. Inversely, the less frequently investors evaluate their portfolios, the more likely they are to see gains.”
The only years with higher volatility in stocks at this point than 2022 (169 trading days):
-1930s (Great Depression, World War II)
-2002 (Dot-Com Crash)
-2009 (Global Financial Crisis)
-2020 (Covid Crash)
The four fallacies of poor decision-making:
• framing bias, availability bias & black/white fallacy
• confirmation bias & lack of focus on disconfirmation
• affect heuristic (short-term emotional impulses)
• overconfidence bias, egocentric bias and hubris