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February 26, 2020February 27, 2020

Investing through uncertainty

As coronavirus fears have irked markets globally, it gives us an opportunity to redefine how we respond to uncertainty and its impact on portfolios.

Ben Carlson has done a nice job providing some thoughts on our headline risk du jour, but we want to give you some additional insight.

First, the nature of risk is that it’s unpredictable. And whether the cause of the turmoil is political, economic, health related, or some other nuisance, we know that the future, by definition, is unknowable.

Not long ago, the markets were deeply disturbed by the interactions between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and the potential for war between the United States and North Korea. Imagine having fallen into a coma in 2010 and awoken to see that as a headline.

April 26, 2019May 10, 2019

Right Back Where We Started From

If ever there was a short-term example of why market timing is a game that only idiots play, it’s the past seven months. Check out what the S&P 500 has done since early September, 2018:

October 24, 2018

When markets go haywire

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Nick Foy, CFP®
nick@greenwaywealth.com

Every once in awhile, and sometimes more often than that, markets go nuts. Investors (over)react to some random news, in an attempt to predict an inherently unknowable future, and everyone pays.

We call the market gyrations “volatility,” especially when the market goes down. I’ve noticed that when the market goes up, we don’t call it anything; we just go on about our lives as if markets going up is normal and to be expected, like Mr. Market owes us something.

But, how should investors handle the trepidation associated with markets and headlines that cause discomfort? Here are a few tips: Continue reading “When markets go haywire”