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Investing strategies for bear markets

Nationwide Financial

The previous bear market occurred in 2007-09, during the Global Financial Crisis. A bear market may reveal to investors that they are over-exposed to more risk than they are comfortable with. In this case, a risk tolerance review with a financial professional can help align your holdings with your true risk tolerance.

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Understanding Low Volatility Investing

Validea

Pim van Vliet, author of the book High Returns from Low Risk, has also conducted and compiled considerable research on low volatility investing. Along with David Blitz, his 2007 study “The Volatility Effect” documented the low volatility effect across global markets.

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The Worst Bear Market That Nobody Ever Talks About

The Irrelevant Investor

The longest bear market didn't begin in 1929 or 2007, but rather on January 11, 1973 [i]. For comparison, the recent bear market from 2007-2009 experienced just four. You must have a portfolio that truly matches your risk tolerance- not your risk tolerance today near all-time highs, but your actual risk tolerance.

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Un-Complicating Investing

The Irrelevant Investor

In order to find the appropriate mix of stocks and bonds we should look at the events from 2007-2009 which ought to do a decent job of calibrating our risk tolerance. At the lowest levels in 2009 an all stock portfolio lost 55%.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

They have a different liability structure, different investment goals, different investment risk tolerances, and we have different teams. One, when people have asked me to compare and contrast today versus 2007, 2008, what you hear from a lot of people is, yes, there’s some fairly heady valuations.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

The Big Picture

At Citi, in 2007, fantastic timing, you take over as Head of Structured Solutions. And so, 2007, I came over to Citi. And when you think about market timing was 2007 the best time to — to make a move, but it ended up being a perfect time actually long-term for — for my career. BITTERLY MICHELL: Always risk.

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Transcript: Bill Dudley, NY Fed Chief

The Big Picture

00:07:47 [Speaker Changed] So, so after, you know, more than 20 years at Goldman, you joined the New York Fed in 2007, overseeing domestic and foreign exchange trading operations, 2007, that, that’s some timing. Well, I had about I seven months of calm and then chaos started in August of 2007. Try, try that.

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