2016 Q1: Time, Diversification & Volatility of Returns
Although it didn’t start that way, the first three months of 2016 produced moderately positive returns for client portfolios. At the midpoint of the quarter we saw headlines in the Wall Street Journal such as: “Stocks Tumble as Investors Flee to Safety”. At times like this it can appear that we aren’t earning the returns we typically use in our long-term financial planning. Investment returns are disappointingly low after two severe market corrections in the last fifteen years. Being diversified among different types of stocks as well as fixed income (bonds) allows us to ride out the...
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