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Month: April 2021

‘Dude, you’re not rich,’ no matter what account statements say

April 28, 2021 by admin

Financial milestones should be celebrated. The question is whether they can be believed, whether savers and investors who pass key numbers on their lifetime financial journeys can trust the point they have gotten to. I’m concerned about it now because the buoyant stock market of the last year has created a bunch of situations with …

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Big recent fund gains shouldn’t alter your focus on ‘What’s next’

April 24, 2021 by admin

At some point in the not-too-distant future, the last year of stock market gains will be a footnote to history. Rebounding from a precipitous drop as the world lurched into the pandemic in March of 2020, the stock market reversed course and gained more than 50 percent, as measured by the Standard & Poor’s 500, …

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A lesson for market newbies and veterans alike

April 14, 2021 by admin

One positive side effect of the pandemic is that people stuck at home started investing. According to a recent new survey from Charles Schwab & Co., 15 percent of all current U.S. stock market investors say they first began investing in 2020. Schwab tabbed that group of investors as Generation Investor or Generation I, but …

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Why you should plan on lower market returns for life

April 9, 2021 by admin

The guy whose research taught investors to expect a 10 percent annualized average return from the stock market has been trying to teach a different lesson for years, namely that the next quarter century is going to see market returns be more modest. It would be just another market forecast – a forgettable opinion from …

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