Investment stock selection and reducing risk
Investors who think they can be successful at buying shares should definitely read the attached research findings by Prof Hendrick Bessembinder, University of Arizona in
"Do Stocks Outperform Treasury Bills?"
February 2017. Prof. Bessembinder evaluated every one month return of every US common stock traded on the New York and American Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ, since 1926.
He reviewed 25,782 stocks and over 3.5M monthly returns between July 1926 and December 2015.If you don't have time to plough through this document then here is a quick summary, stuff investors should take note of include:-
1. Only 47.7 % earned more than risk free Treasury Bills over the entire period.
2. The best performing 1,000 of listed stocks accounted for the entire lifetime dollar wealth creation since 1926 (circa $ 32 trillion !)
3. $ 16 trillion wealth created by only 86 companies. (leaders at time of research were Exonn Mobil $ 934 billion, Apple $ 677 billion)
Key learnings for ?
Buying one stock small cap companies increases your risk of loss
We should look towards indices that hold a broader range of stocks and bias towards larger cap stocks
Diversification across key asset classes is critical
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