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When Benjamin Franklin said that early to bed and early to rise can make you wealthy (and wise and healthy), he wasn’t kidding. Research shows that sleep-deprived people are more likely to have less-diverse investment portfolios than those who sleep longer.
Diversification, of course, dampens investment risk and portfolio volatility, offering stock investors a relatively smoother ride down Wall Street. Diversification also means forfeiting some short-term upside, but most investors aren’t market-timers, and a slow and steady, diversified investing approach has its own upside: namely, less worry.
In fact, investing and sleep-deprivation looks to be a vicious cycle: Investors don’t get enough sleep, make riskier investment decisions, then lose sleep worrying about their money. So get enough sleep and give yourself a better chance to build an investment portfolio that lets you rest easier.
— Jonathan Burton
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Turkey ETF sees highest inflows in 5 years amid currency crisisThe largest exchange-traded fund to track Turkey’s equity market has tumbled in recent trading, but it has also seen an influx of assets as investors attempt to play the troubled region.
Turkey ETF sees highest inflows in 5 years amid currency crisis
Just look at how U.S. stocks performed after similar crises.
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