"Buy the dip" sounds like smart investing — wait for prices to fall, then pounce. But 60 years of evidence reveals the strategy underperforms passive investing more than 60% of the time. Here's why waiting for the perfect moment costs more than it saves.
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
4 hours ago8 min read
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