You can take advantage of short-term price dislocation versus a company's value or use long-term compounding to achieve market outperformance. There is no debating that statistically the stock market has a positive skew — meaning, a relatively small number of outliers like Apple have such great returns that they pull up the average. Not only can you not beat the market if you buy the market, it is in my opinion an abdication of your investment responsibilities. You can write to Lauren Rudd at Lauren.Rudd@RuddInternational.com or call him at941-706-3449. Lauren Rudd offers commentary Thursdays on SNN News 6 during the 5:30 p.m. live newscast.

Source: The Herald April 16, 2020 03:11 UTC