How much of your portfolio should be in stocks? It's one of investing's most important questions — and the standard answer is costing the average investor the equivalent of 2% of their lifetime consumption. Yale economists have finally built something better, and it fits in a spreadsheet.
The investment factor reveals a counterintuitive truth: companies that spend aggressively on growth tend to deliver lower returns than their cautious peers. With Big Tech pouring hundreds of billions into AI infrastructure, six decades of academic evidence suggest investors should be sceptical.
Robin Powell
Jan 208 min read
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