Thoughts On: Managing your Portfolio in Uncertain Times
I’ve been paying attention to the stock market for over 30 years, and I can’t remember any times that weren’t uncertain. I checked with Ron, who has been paying attention since 1968, and he can’t remember any times of certainty either. When I think about managing your investment portfolio in uncertain times, I start with these questions: What is uncertain today? What has been uncertain in the past? Were these unprecedented at the time? How did you manage your portfolio then? What did you learn from that? For example, the 1970’s were unprecedented in having high inflation combined with high [...]