1.0 link 122840 <![CDATA[The New Rules for Smart Investors: Ignore Them at Your Peril]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-solin/the-new-rules-for-smart-i_b_122840.html Every year, Dalbar, Inc., a respected independent market research firm, publishes a study entitled Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavior. The study measures the actual performance of stock and bond investors and compares that performance to various benchmarks.

The latest study found that, for the 20 year period ending December 31, 2007, the average stock mutual fund investor earned a paltry 4.48% annualized.

The S&P 500 index earned 11.81% during the same period.

Fixed income investors did worse. They earned only 1.55% compared to...

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