UNIT - My Biggest Losses And Lessons
2024-04-13 07:30:00 ET
Summary
- All investors, including even Warren Buffett, have suffered big losses.
- We take risks to earn returns and sometimes, risk factors play out.
- At other times, we also made mistakes in our analysis.
- Here are all of my biggest losses and the lessons I have learned from them.
Overall, I have done quite well over the long run.
I have managed to outperform my real estate investment trust, or REIT, sector ( VNQ ) benchmarks by a large margin, all while earning a much higher dividend yield:
| 2023 |
| 3 Year |
| 5 Year |
| 10/2018–2024 |
| VNQ |
| 12.81% |
| 18.72% |
| 44.89% |
| 41.09% |
| RMZ |
| 9.77% |
| 12.62% |
| 19.97% |
| 15.58% |
| Core Portfolio |
| 10.27% |
| 30.52% |
| 65.60% |
| 64.26% |
But it wasn't without some hiccups along the way.
We take risks to earn returns and sometimes, risk factors play out.
Then at other times, we have also made mistakes and suffered the consequences.
In today's article, I want to go back in time and discuss all the biggest investment mistakes I have ever made. This includes investments that I made even long before launching my investing group on Seeking Alpha in 2018:...
My Biggest Losses And Lessons