How long does it take to recover your losses from a bear market? Longer than we’d like
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Many Monevator readers tell us they’re feeling nervous about the markets. Me too. The perils on my personal Venn diagram of risks seem to overlap like unattended coffee rings. Notable brow-furrowers include: Vaulting US stock market valuations Big tech betting the farm on AI UK economic stagnation Government debt piles swaying like Jenga towers The [...]
What caught my eye this week. When I began investing in the early 2000s, the September 11th attacks still loomed large in investors’ minds. Of course, that shadow extended everywhere then. The West was at war in Afghanistan and soon Iraq. Terrorist plots exploded or were foiled with numbing regularity. It all hogged the news [...]
Keeping our monkey brains in check isn’t easy at the best to times. It’s even harder when you invest…
Let’s scare ourselves stupid by watching the horrorshow that was the 1972-1974 UK stock market crash.
Unhedged US Treasuries been better for UK investors in stock market crashes for the last two decades. What’s going on?
The Global Financial Crisis was awful. Which means it must have some amazing lessons to teach us. Perhaps about diversification!
The rules of diversification sometimes seem too simple to believe. Well, believe them now because some your favourite out-of-favour asset classes are saving the day now.