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Investing is the process of buying assets such as securities, real estate and other items of value that will hopefully increase in value over time, providing a return in the form of income payments or capital gains.

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Does the P/E ratio of REITs matter for dividend investing?

When buying REITs, one essentially looks for the dividend yield (last dividend vs. current share price). If it's an established fund, does it really matter what's the P/E ratio if one capitalizes on t …
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Does MER of a given product (say ETF) ever go down?

If I buy a new product with relatively high Management Expense Ratio (MER), can that MER be theoretically/technically reduced in the future, for example when the product gains more and more popularity …
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Why real estate investments are compared via "cap rate"?

Cap rate does not include repayment of loans (such as mortgage), and therefore does not represent reliably the annual balance. Why use cap ratio if another benchmark, such as ROI, provides similar inf …
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Does longterm investment in index funds still make sense in a reality of massive algotrading?

More and more teams around the world are starting to compete against each other with sophisticated trading algorithms (both high and low frequency trading). For a private investor, if this trend cont …
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Why use ROI if I can use effective compount interest?

According to Wikipedia, return on investment = (gain from investment – cost of investment) / cost of investment However this calculation does not take into account the time passed between the …
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