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Clark always advocates investing for the long term. Later in this email, you will learn why buy-and-hold investing is virtually foolproof. |
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📈 Reminder: Buy-and-Hold Investing Is Virtually Foolproof |
The stock market may or may not be volatile as we recover from hurricanes, near the Presidential Election and face who knows how many unpredictable headlines. |
But now is a good time to remember that Clark always advocates investing for the long term. |
“Markets, even after a painful decline, eventually recover,” Clark says. “As long as you are invested for the right reasons – saving for your long term – and your money is diversified in a way that’s appropriate to your age, just ignore the headlines and hang in there.” |
Creative Planning’s Charlie Bilello recently surfaced some interesting stats that back up the core tenets of Clark’s philosophy. |
On any given day, your odds of a positive stock market return are 53%. Considering fees and taxes, that’s virtually a coin flip. |
Expand that time horizon to one year and your odds improve to 75%. Over 20 years? It’s 100%. History doesn’t always repeat itself. But there has never been a negative return for US equity investors if they held for 20 years, Bilello points out. |
Here are the odds of a positive return based on timeline. |
One Day: 53%
Five Days: 57%
10 Days: 59%
One Month: 62%
Three Months: 68%
Six Months: 71%
One Year: 75%
Three Years: 84%
Five Years: 89%
10 Years: 94%
15 Years: 98%
20 Years: 100%
30 Years: 100% |
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