Rick Ferri quotes

Rick Ferri is a renowned financial analyst, advisor, and author with over 30 years of experience in the industry. As the founder of Portfolio Solutions LLC, he has helped countless clients achieve their financial goals through his prudent investment strategies. Rick is also the author of several best-selling books on index investing and asset allocation. With a strong focus on passive investing, Rick's insights and expertise have been featured in top financial publications. Trust Rick Ferri to guide you towards a secure financial future.

Volatility creates lower returns and thus is itself a risk. If you can reduce the volatility in a portfolio, then the compounded return moves higher, closer to the simple average return of the weighted investments in the portfolio. This is how lower portfolio price volatility increases portfolio return over time.

- Rick Ferri

The problem with long-term investing is the short term.

- Rick Ferri

The enemy of a good asset allocation is the quest for a perfect one. Fight the urge to be perfect.

- Rick Ferri

Overconfident investors generally believe that they have more knowledge and information than they actually have. As a result, they tend to trade too much and underperform the market.

- Rick Ferri

Nothing destroys a good long-term plan like extreme short-term volatility. That throws people off track, and they often do things that are emotional rather than rational.

- Rick Ferri

Investors who followed a broadly diversified asset allocation that included a total market fund and a small value index fund would have faired very well during the past decade.

- Rick Ferri