Lots of people have been left on the sidelines by the stock market rally, hunkered down in a bunker waiting for a bomb that’s already exploded.
Browsing: bear markets
This is the final part in a series of three posts on riding out a bear market. To be sociable and mix things up a bit, the first two posts are on two other splendid financial blogs: MoneyNing (Part 1: Beat market volatility by being boring) Investing School (Part 2:…
Eating breakfast this morning, I caught Hugh Hendry, the gloomy and currently outperforming UK fund manager, on CNBC. Hendry’s main call, which he has been rewarded by repeating for months now, is to avoid equities. Yes, the market has fallen, Hendry says, but that doesn’t mean it won’t keep falling.…
I accept it’s normal to feel frustrated, angry, or even downright stupid when you lose money on your investments. But what about guilt? My portfolio’s fall from its peak value in summer 2007 to a low in October 2008 represents a big loss for a 30-something private investor like me:…
