Wealth & Risk

market volatility

  1. 3 June 2022

    Every asset class has bad years, even bonds

    Bonds have been performing terribly, yet I still call them defensive assets. Every asset class has bad years; regression to the mean is real; bond losses remain smaller than share losses; and your cap…

  2. 4 June 2021

    Volatility is inevitable

    Every time I work with a client, I make a bald statement of fact. If you invest in growth-oriented investments, there WILL be times when the value of those investments drops. Sometimes significantly.…

  3. 7 May 2020

    April 2020 was the S&P 500’s best month in over 30 years. Huh?! How is that possible?

    April 2020 was the S&P 500's best month in over 30 years — the same month tens of millions of Americans claimed unemployment. How? The sharemarket isn't the economy, and more importantly it's a predic…

  4. 27 March 2020

    Could I have picked this market crash?

    COVID-19 had me questioning a lot of things, including my long-standing devotion to index-based investing. In retrospect it felt like I could have picked the crash — so could I have? Probably not. The…

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