Asset Camp is a powerful platform of asset class research tools and education for individual investors. Its purpose is to help you make better investment decisions using a curated toolset and proven investment process. To provide you with the tools and know-how so you can be a trusted resource for yourself, your friends, and your family.
The inaugural toolset focuses on stock market investing using stock index mutual funds and ETFs that track stock indexes.
A stock index consists of hundreds of stocks with common characteristics. For example, the S&P 500 Index is a well-known index that represents large-company U.S. stocks.
When hundreds of stocks are combined into an index, the performance of an ETF or index mutual fund that tracks that index is no longer driven by the results of any one individual company.
Instead, stock index funds’ returns are primarily determined by the collective dividends and earnings power of numerous companies. What investors pay for those dividends and earnings can also influence returns.
The massive diversification achieved through index funds and ETFs means better control of your investment results. That control is achieved through an understanding of the underlying asset class return drivers,, namely cash flows, how they grow, and what investors are paying for that growth.