MCA Investment Experience: A Better Way To Wealth™

Old vs. New

Traditional investment strategies leave most investors disappointed with their investment results because they are too volatile, too costly and too unreliable. Why is this? Because the direction taken by "old," conventional investment strategies over-emphasizes the importance of individual security selection and market timing. These strategies also require investors to pay significant fees and transaction expenses and, in many cases, produce returns that are no better than those produced by using a dartboard to randomly select stocks. Many investors chase performance by jumping on the "hot" stock or sector bandwagon and then hang on for dear life as they ride out swings in their portfolios, or just as quickly, jump off, further undermining their long-term investment goals.

The old styles and techniques of investing have not kept pace with improvements in information and increasingly efficient securities markets. They are based on the mistaken belief that so-called "experts" can effectively and consistently out-guess and out-time the markets and each other. Yet, these strategies continue to be tirelessly promoted by the Wall Street establishment through a lot of expensive advertising - not surprising since Wall Street has a vested interest in seeing that the old strategies continue. The truth is that the old approach to investing is short term, very costly, very "active" and simply does not work on a consistent basis.