Sharpe Ratio Archives | Wealthfront Blog Personal Finance & Investing Insights Wed, 12 Jan 2022 01:12:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-wave-logo-transparent-hi-res-500x500.png Sharpe Ratio Archives | Wealthfront Blog 32 32 Battle of Passive Investing https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/battle-passive-investing/ Tue, 10 Oct 2017 19:05:06 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=7915 Over the years there have been a number of highly contested battles — Coke vs. Pepsi, Lakers vs. Celtics, Ali vs. Frazier. In the world of investing, there’s also heated rivalry: active vs. passive. Recently passive investing has gotten some extra muscle thanks to its newest champion: billionaire investor Warren Buffett. A decade ago Buffett, […]

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]]> Playing the Real Estate Game (part 2) https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/playing-real-estate-game-part-2/ Wed, 13 Sep 2017 18:08:19 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=7835 In last week’s post we provided the logic for why you should not try to invest in individual real estate properties (beyond your home) or try to pick which real estate market is likely to outperform the real estate market. This week we’ll explain how real estate as an asset class compares to alternative investments, specifically stocks. 

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]]> The Right Way and the Wrong Way to Benchmark a Diversified Portfolio https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/benchmark-diversified-portfolio/ Fri, 29 Jul 2016 18:29:30 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=6902 One of the biggest challenges for an investor is to determine how well her diversified portfolio is performing. The two most common benchmarks featured in published advice are: S&P 500 A 60/40 Stock/Bond portfolio Unfortunately, most published advice is incorrect. That’s because it usually encourages comparison to an irrelevant index or too generic of a […]

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]]> Tech IPOs, a Good Investment or Not? https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/tech-ipos-good-investment/ Thu, 26 Jun 2014 17:30:20 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=4514 A number of potential clients have asked what returns they might expect from the average IPO. To determine the return of the average IPO we thought it might make more sense to look at a portfolio of all tech IPOs and compare it to the S&P 500, as well as a typical diversified portfolio. Our […]

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