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Evidence-Based Investment Insights: Bringing the Evidence Home

In the final installment of our Evidence-Based Investment Insights Series, let’s review the key take-home messages from each installment.

Arguably, the most significant factor in your evidence-based investment strategy is the human factor.

Continued research has helped us identify additional market factors at play, with additional potential premiums.

Grounding your investment strategy in rational methodology strengthens your ability to stay on course toward your financial goals.

It is easier to stick with your investment selections if you use a rational methodology such as evidence-based investing.

Investing requires an understanding of how to build a diversified portfolio to more effectively capture long-term global market returns.

Diversifying is not perfectly predictable, but it offers a blanket of coverage for capturing random market returns where and when they occur.

To understand, avoid and manage investment risks, there are two main types in avoidable concentrated risks and unavoidable investment risks.

The market’s price-setting efficiencies start with diversification being among your greatest financial friends.

Independently thinking groups (like capital markets) are usually better at accurate answers than even the smartest individuals in the group.