It’s a simple premise: Investors who are driven by daily fluctuation in the market rebalance their holdings to get out of stocks that are dropping and miss out when they go back up. The report suggests it’s better to rebalance less frequently and let the market go through its ups and downs naturally.
“History has shown us that the stock market is a relatively safe bet over the long term because it has typically grown,” Michaela Pagel, assistant professor of finance and economics at the business school, said in a statement. “Investors would be wise to keep this in mind, because those that check their portfolio too often and are driven by the daily or hourly fluctuations in the market may make decisions that have a negative impact on their long-term financial prospects.”
In an interview with ThinkAdvisor, Pagel said that when people have certain preferences, they’re happier when those preferences are met, an assumption that is “very different from what is assumed in standard economic models where people only care about consumption.”
The model she puts forth in her paper takes some of the preferences into account.
“Once you make those models more realistic with these new preferences, then you find that people like to be inattentive to their portfolios,” she said on Thursday. “They like to not monitor their portfolios constantly because they’re always more upset when they see the markets going down. The benefits of monitoring your portfolio constantly are very little because your consumption is very little affected by the stock market.”
Ultimately, Pagel found that her model investor only looks at his portfolio approximately once a year.
Source: ThinkAdvisor
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