Surviving inevitable market falls

Investors have experienced very strong market returns since the Credit Crisis of late 2007 to early 2009.  Today, £100 invested at the bottom of the global equitymarket fall in March 2009, would be worth around £345 (before inflation and any costs).  Those who lived through the Credit Crisis will remember it, but perhaps now with a dulled sense of what it felt like at the time, given the rebound in wealth that followed. Those newer to investing may never have experienced the sense of fear and panic that such a severe market fall can induce, and only ever experienced mainly positive outcomes.

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