30 Quotes by Scott Kahan

With interest rates rising, we're advising people to go back to bonds.

Brand recognition is nice, but a fund company that has a lot of good performers may be an indication of strong research. But not all funds will do well.

Even though he is not eligible for the 401K, he can allocate this money into his non-qualified investments and then stop those savings when he starts his 401K.

Doubling the student loan payment will reduce the time it takes to pay the loan, but the total savings in interest will be marginal.

Don't look at the past six months. Look at the past five, 10 or 20 years of returns.

The wild card is capital gains distributions. So you have to be very careful when you're changing your portfolio.

People shouldn't chase returns. The average investor looks back at returns and buys based on performance. But people have to look at the worst-performing sectors, not the best-performing ones. That's where the smart investor goes.

People should look at this market as a great learning experience. The best learning experience of how much risk you want to take is going through a down market.

People tend to believe that whatever is doing well at the moment will always do well. In the 1990s everybody said value investing was dead and never to return, but managers who stuck to their guns obviously proved that wasn't the case.