susah sekale menjadi INVESTOR sejati atawa murni, apalagi HARUS menunggu TAHUNAN bwat MERAUP IMBAL HASIL INVESTASI
investor sejati memang SEWAJARNYA dan SEBAEKNYA mempunyai HORIZON WAKTU PANJANG, yaitu LEBE DARI SATU TAHUN, minimal, kalo bisa AMPE LEBE DARI 3 TAON, bahkan LEBE DARI 10 TAON
... well, anda pasti KEBINGUNGAN, karena menyangka INVESTASI itu KAYA JUDI atawa KASINO, yaitu BISA DAPAT IMBAL HASIL RAKSASA dalam waktu SEKETIKA
misalnya, dalam kasino ada permainan yang namanya "mesin jackpot", kita wajib masukkan koin kasino yang sesuai ke dalam mesin, lalu pencet tombol play (atawa apa pun namanya, supaya mesin bekerja), dan tunggu sampai dengan perputaran gambar-gambar di tiga kolom berhenti semua dan membentuk sebuah konfigurasi, bisa saja konfigurasi tersebut memberikan imbal hasil, tapi bisa juga gagal total, artinya koin kita ditelan abis ... namun bisa juga tiba2 terdengar suara seperti sirene, dan terdengar bunyi koin berjatuhan pada tempat penyimpanan koin yang terbuat dari logam, artinya koin kita menghasilkan imbal hasil lebe banyak koin, lalu kita gembira ... tergantung berapa banyak dan berapa kepekaan rasa kita terhadap sebuah hasil yang seperti itu ...
NAH, sayangnya di investasi TIDAK AKAN MUNGKIN terjadi peristiwa tersebut di atas ... sayangnya pada investasi kita tidak bisa menggunakan satu koin saja, apalagi uang logam, tetapi kita WAJIB MENGGUNAKAN UANG KERTAS TUNAI dalam jumlah yang lebih dari satu, biasanya
Jadi berjudi itu PASTI MUTLAK BEDA dari berinvestasi
sayangnya, kita kadang-kadang AMAT BUTUH IMBAL HASIL YANG MIRIP IMBAL HASIL BERJUDI tersebut, karena PERNAH MELIHAT ADA ORANG YANG MERAUP LABA GEDE banget
dari berinvestasi
Pengalaman melihat orang yang meraup laba gede dari investasi TELAH MENIMBULKAN PERSEPSI tertentu ... MISALNYA, kita bisa beranggapan bahwa ORANG TERSEBUT KEBETULAN SAJA BERHASIL MERAUP LABA GEDE dari berinvestasi ; anggapan lain: ORANG TERSEBUT SUDAH DITAKDIRKAN; anggapan lain lage: ORANG TERSEBUT pantes aja MERAUP LABA GEDE karena EMANG MODALNYA GEDE BANGET; anggapan kita bisa juga: ORANG TERSEBUT SECARA SISTEMATIS telah BERINVESTASI dengan PENUH KALKULASI dan DISIPLIN TINGGI sehingga BERHASIL MERAUP LABA passive income DARI INVESTASI JANGKA PANJANGNYA ...
well, mana anggapan anda yang sesuai (atawa malah sama sekale tidak ada yang sesuai dengan anggapan2 tersebut), itu akan menentukan PROFIL INVESTOR dalam diri anda
well, kalo gw mah, bisa lebe menerima anggapan bahwa orang itu secara rasional, disiplin, kalkulatif, dan sistematis melakukan investasi jangka panjang sehingga telah mempunyai passive income sebagai laba gedenya.
... jadi gimana bisa berinvestasi dalam jangka panjang ... menurut gw: WAJIB merencanakan investasi dan MENGUTAMAKAN investasi melalui PRIORITAS DANA yang DISISIHKAN khusus bwat investasi
misalnya: usia orang itu: 25 tahun, dan sudah mempunyai pekerjaan yang menghasilkan take home pay Rp. 2.500.000,- sebulan; lalu maseh tinggal dengan orang tua, tapi ikut memberikan uang dapur setiap bulan, misalnya Rp. 500.000,-, namun orang itu sudah SADAR AKAN BERINVESTASI, lalu MENYISIHKAN Rp. 250.000,- setiap bulan, yaitu dengan cara membeli reksa dana langsung dari manajer investasi dan memenuhi ketentuan minimum pembelian ... demikian seterusnya, ritus perencanaan keuangan dijalankan, dengan selalu mengutamakan jumlah dana investasi, misalnya, dengan perubahan besaran take home pay menjadi Rp. 5 Juta, maka dana investasi menjadi Rp. 500.000,- dst ... begitu seterusnya, tahun demi tahun dilalui, model perencanaan keuangan dan strategi dollar cost averaging dilakukan seperti tersebut, tanpa harus TAHU berapa imbal hasil yang uda diperoleh, maka imbal hasil jangka panjang akan lebe mudah menimbulkan efek bunga majemuk dan efek passive income akan mudah terjadi setelah lebe dari 10 taon, 20 taon, 30 taon, yaitu saat pensiun tiba ... :)
... well, skenario seperti tersebut ini BENERAN AKAN MEMBINGUNGKAN bagi orang yang beranggapan bahwa berinvestasi dan berlaba gede itu adalah KEBETULAN, SEBUAH TAKDIR, dan HANYA TERJADI PADA ORANG YANG SUPERKAYA
... gw mah hepi aja, karena uda terbukti dalam jangka panjang imbal hasilnya memberi gw passive income, beneran :)
NAH, lebe baek tau tren pergerakan Nilai Aktiva Bersih reksa dana setiap waktu atawa cukup sekale-sekale aja dalam kurun waktu cukup panjang ... hmm, kalo gw mah, sante aja, sekale-sekale dipantau, tapi investasi jalan terus sesuai rencana
JADI, berinvestasi itu MEMANG TIDAK MUDAH, dan MEMBUTUHKAN WAKTU PANJANG, tapi IMBAL HASILNYA bo LUMAYAN BWAT jalan-jalan, membiayai pendidikan anak bahkan sampai ke luar negeri, membeli properti, membeli perhiasan, dll ... :)
By Chuck Jaffe, MarketWatch
When it comes to catastrophes and disasters, anniversaries typically bring up bad memories.
With mutual funds, key anniversaries erase them.
Thus, as investors mark the five-year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers—the signature event of the financial crisis of 2008—mutual fund companies are watching as the passage of time removes all of that pain from five-year performance records. While the financial crisis actually sucked 50% of the value out of the Dow Jones Industrial Average over an 18-month period from October 2007 through early March 2009, funds took the worst of it in the two months after the Sept. 15th collapse of Lehman.
Removing that experience from the five-year look-back creates a before-after picture that’s as startling as the sudden transformation of a 98-pound weakling into a pumped-up, sculpted contender for Mr. Universe.
For example, the average large-cap growth fund entered September with a five-year annualized return of 6.38%, according to Morningstar Inc. If the market simply stays flat and the average fund stands still to the end of the year, that five-year average will be 9.2% once September is wiped off the books, and will reach 15.16% by the end of the year.
Put another way, expecting a 0.0% return for the rest of the year is akin to simply shrinking the track record by four months, removing the first of the 60 months in the time frame.
When you take the fall of 2008 off the books, according to Lipper Inc., the cumulative return of the average large-cap core fund would go from 37.82% entering September to 94.14% by the end of the year. The typical financial-services sector fund, which now reports a total gain of 27.5% since August 2008, will see its five-year results shoot to roughly 106.5% by year’s end, simply by holding steady for through December.
Because the financial crisis spared no sector or category from its misery, virtually every category is slated to see massive improvement by year’s end, barring another market catastrophe.
The two questions this sudden change brings are whether investors recognize that the performance-enhancing drug in five-year records was time, being used as a painkiller to get the worst of the crisis out of the five-year lens, and what fund companies will do with those suddenly sexy half-decade numbers.
“Equity funds are still bleeding assets from the 2008 crisis, so one would have to think fund sponsors will jump on the improvement in the five-year records and turn up the heat in saying how well they have done since the market stressed funds back then,” said Geoff Bobroff, an industry consultant based in East Greenwich, R.I. “They may push it more in the materials going to [advisers and brokers] than directly to the individual investor, but they have something to sell now and some companies definitely will sell it.”
The expectation that the push on five-year records will be made via advisers comes because some experts wonder if individual investors have gotten to a point where they don’t believe past-performance matters any more.
Industry observers have long pointed to studies showing how past performance is, at best, a flawed predictor of future results. The inherent ability to cherry-pick time frames to deliver good-looking results is a big reason why.
At the start of 2010, for example, the financial crisis was front-and-center in short-term track records, and trying to ease the pain by looking back 10 years wasn’t much help, because the decade included the bear market that occurred when the Internet bubble burst in 2000.
Now the 2008 catastrophe is about to be out of five-year records and the 10-year performance results have already dropped the bear market of 2000-2003.
“Funds, basically, are market-timing their records,” said David Trainer, president of New Constructs Inc., the Nashville-based research firm. “They’ll use their five-year record—or whatever record they think looks good to investors—when it suits them, and sweep it under the rug when it doesn’t. … Now they will say their five-year performance is good; we’ll see if people believe them and act on it.”
What may be standing in the way is investors’ pain reflex.
This is less about risk tolerance than about the memory of past injuries. Investors internalize losses, and the 50% drop of the financial crisis isn’t leaving their heads, even if it is leaving five-year histories; the pain feels like it was just yesterday, which is why so many investors have had a tough time getting all the way back into the equity market even as it rode a new bull market to record highs.
Investors have good reason to be skeptical, noted Trainer. If the average large-cap value fund is going to see its five-year annualized performance jump from 6.2% entering this month to 13.4% at the end of December (again, assuming 0.0% movement in the fund between now and year’s end), it’s only a mirage that makes it look like performance is twice as good.
“That change in what the five-year numbers look like is so big so fast, but it’s not like the funds actually got better overnight,” he said. “They just don’t have to look back on what was hurting them in that time frame any more. … It’s not like you have any reason to believe they will avoid whatever could hurt them next.”
That’s why it’s important that investors not only mark the anniversary of the financial crisis, but remember it. Having seen funds at their worst, investors can factor future market meltdowns into their planning; forgetting that pain—or ignoring it based on recent positives—is a good way to ensure that they will feel it again, the next time there’s a market crisis.