What retail investors should focus on: stable market principles
They can also rely on technology to build a strategic allocation that is aligned with their needs
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RETAIL participation in financial markets has expanded dramatically over the past decade, primarily due to improved access, the collapse of trading costs and increased market transparency.
Investing ideas now circulate across different platforms, in different forms, at a pace that would have been unthinkable even a generation ago.
Yet retail investors who trade on their own overwhelmingly lose money, due to the combined effect of an excess of information and human behavioural biases.
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