Investment Updates
The Terrible Truth About Investing
Published Friday, November 10, 2023 at: 7:11 PM EST
As an investment advisor, it’s frustrating to see people mismanage their portfolios. One problem is that ads make it sound so easy to do it yourself. A common refrain is to buy an index fund and don’t sweat other details. But is index investing really so simple?
Perhaps the biggest obstacle to a set-it-and-forget-it index fund investing strategy is that investors are human. When bad times hit, they often abandon their strategy; long-term investing goes out the window in a geopolitical or financial crisis.
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