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The Secret to the Best and Worst

by Henry Becker 06.16.2009
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In my last post, 2008: The Final nail for Buy and Hold, I referenced a common marketing piece that gets dragged out by the financial services industry when ever the stock markets get choppy.  The piece has many iterations over different periods of time and analyzes average annual performance of the S&P 500 if you [...]

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2008: The Final Nail For Buy & Hold

by Henry Becker 06.16.2009
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It did not take just one bad year [2008] to kill the buy and hold investment strategy.  The question is was it ever a viable option for managing money?  In the last ten years we have seen two 40% + drops in the stock market.  For a buy and hold investor, large market drops are [...]

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