Over the long-term, the S&P 500 has averaged a 10% return. Over the past 8 years, we’ve seen 5 years of 20%+ returns, including the past two years. Stocks also posted losses of 4% and 18% in 2 other years. When investing,
Markets move in cycles. This is obvious to anybody who has tracked the market for more than a few years. Part of each cycle is the "driver" of the move (up or down). The bulk of 2023 and 2024 was on mega-cap tech stocks and AI in particular. Following
Nobody likes going through anything uncomfortable. That's just human nature. This is also true when investing.
Over the long-term, stock market returns have averaged around 10% per year. This is true whether you go back to 1990, 1950, or even 1926. When you start investing the 10% sounds
For old people like me who remember getting the newspaper every morning, there was a section on the inside of the front page titled "Corrections". This was the place where if necessary, the publication would fix anything that was printed previously which ended up not being true. Remember back in
Everything becomes more clear as we gain the benefit of hindsight. My experience and SEM's use of quantitative models which remove emotion from the decision making certainly makes it a bit easier for me to see things a bit more clearly in real-time, but I am also human
