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Post by roi2020 on Jun 25, 2023 6:26:03 GMT
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"Nearly 95% of all stocks in the 1940s and 1950s were owned by individual investors. They were mostly buy-and-hold investors, just looking to earn some dividends. More than 95% of all trading was done by individual investors. Today that number is more like 2% with 98% of trading being carried out by institutional investors and machines."
"The precipitous decline in fees can be traced back to both Vanguard and a change in rules instituted by the SEC back in 1975. That’s when the SEC abolished fixed-rate commissions for stock trading. Before then investors were paying an average of 1-3% to buy or sell a stock. So the costs didn’t scale even if the size of your trades went up. Plus the bid-ask spreads were wide enough to drive a truck through."
"During the 1980s, mutual fund assets jumped from $241 billion to $1.5 trillion. The charge was led by money market funds, which soared from $2 billion to $570 billion, accounting for almost half the increase."
"We went from 1% stock market ownership in 1929 to 19% in 1983 to nearly 60% by 2000. Almost 60% of households who owned stocks had purchased their first share after 1990. One-third of all buyers entered the market in 1995 or later."
"The S&P 500 lost around 10% in total during the first decade of the 21st century, a 10 year stretch that saw the market get chopped in half twice. Things felt pretty bleak coming out of the Great Financial Crisis of 2008."
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Post by yakers on Jun 29, 2023 17:35:30 GMT
Bought my first stocks on direct company DRIPs to avoid trading costs, remember those?. Worked well, had the paper certificates delivered and took them to Wells Fargo to deposit in a trading account.
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Post by steadyeddy on Jun 29, 2023 18:42:02 GMT
Bought my first stocks on direct company DRIPs to avoid trading costs, remember those?. Worked well, had the paper certificates delivered and took them to Wells Fargo to deposit in a trading account. I remember very well share certificates. It made me feel good coz you could touch and feel the paper indicating ownership, not just a number on a screen.
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