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How Will the Stock Market Perform in 2024? Here's What Wall Street Thinks.

The Motley Fool

There have been only two exceptions in the last six decades -- one at the beginning of the dot-com bubble bursting in 2000, and another with the financial crisis in 2008. The longer your investing horizon, the bigger the bang you'll likely enjoy.

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The 60/40 Portfolio is Back! *after not going away

The Big Picture

Despite the headline, the Wall Street Journal chart (above) reveals 2022 as the exception that proves the point: Prior selloffs — 2000-03 and 2008-09 — were all equity driven. Those years are fairly ugly for investment portfolios. The 60/40 is not “back” because it never left.

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For Only the Third Time in 75 Years, a Prominent Economic Indicator Is Making History. Unfortunately, It's for All the Wrong Reasons.

The Motley Fool

The only two other instances were in 1981-1982 (18 months) and 2008-2009 (14 months). However, your investment horizon is a far more important puzzle piece to the wealth-building equation on Wall Street. economy falling into a recession. In general, recessions are no fun.

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Federal Realty Investment Trust: Buy, Sell, or Hold?

The Motley Fool

That has pushed the retail-focused real estate investment trust's (REIT's) dividend yield up to around 4.4%. That's near levels last seen during the pandemic-related recession in 2020 and the Great Recession in 2008 and 2009. That is true and might be appropriate for someone with a short-term investment horizon.

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Chart of the Month: March 2023

Cobalt

We compared their total value to paid-in capital (TVPIs) between 1998 and 2021 to see the returns each investment style might offer to investors moving forward. Through two separate drawdowns from 1999-2008 , the average buyout fund held above a 1.5x return on its investment.

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How to Determine Your Client’s Risk Capacity

BlueMind

Hardly: don’t forget the unexpected and shocking financial crisis of 2008 in the United States which crippled the economy. Time Horizon Time horizon is the time period someone holds on to an investment until they finally have the need to cash it.

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Pix vs. Flix

The Big Picture

People with investment horizons of years or decades should avoid getting pulled into very short-term news. No!) (May 08, 2008) Lose the News (June 2005) Fun with Hedonics or: “How I learned to stop worrying about CPI and love inflation.” (April 21, 2004) Source: Carl Richards, BehaviorGap.com _ 1.