Mapping Out A Road To Financial Security
Could you benefit from a one-page, easy-to-understand illustration of your entire financial situation? An Asset+Map® can provide that, and much more.
Could you benefit from a one-page, easy-to-understand illustration of your entire financial situation? An Asset+Map® can provide that, and much more.
Selling dominated global markets in the final month of the third quarter. All four of the major asset-class categories – stocks, bonds, securitized real estate and commodities – posted sharp declines in September, echoing similar results in August.
Even by the standards of widespread selling throughout much of 2022, June’s losses are striking. Striking because nothing was spared. The one asset class that had been offering relief this year – commodities – reversed course last month.
History has demonstrated that portfolios comprised of carefully selected individual stocks are unlikely to outperform investment portfolios consisting of low-cost, market-tracking index funds. And yet, even ardent supporters of index-tracking ETFs sometimes engage in the black art of stock-picking. If you decide to sin a little by investing a share of your portfolio in shares of individual companies, there are steps you can take to improve your chances of success.
Investment management often triggers thoughts of how to invest in the markets. But how you title your brokerage accounts, bank accounts, and the real estate you own, and who you name as the beneficiaries of your retirement accounts, life insurance, annuities, and the like, are also critical to properly managing your family’s wealth.
A bear market has likely begun. Might as well make the best of it. This month, Andrew Willms (a/k/a The Market Commentator) shares his recipe for making lemonade out of lemons when security prices drop.