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The “Art” of Market Timing

The Big Picture

When you get it wrong, it crushes your retirement plans. My own track record at making big calls is pretty damned good, but none of our clients wants me slinging around their retirement monies based on my gut instinct. The dotcom top, the double bottom in Oct 02-March 03; the highs in 2007, the lows 2009.

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Five Things to do During a Stock Market Correction

The Chicago Financial Planner

For example during the 2008-2009 market debacle I looked at funds to see how they did in both the down market of 2008 and the up market of 2009. If a fund did worse than the majority of its peers in 2008 I would expect to see better than average performance in the up market of 2009. Markets will always correct at some point.

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The Implications of an Aged Housing Stock

Fortune Financial

The housing bubble and subsequent bust that was largely responsible for the 2007 – 2009 financial crisis resulted in depressed housing starts for more than a decade; in fact, from 2008 through 2019, single family housing starts averaged just 660,000, not even 60% of the long-term average. averaged more than 1.1 million per year.

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New Year's Day Retirement Spectacular!

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

At its 2009 trough, SSO was down more than 80%. For as much as we explore using leverage and the concept of portable alpha, this post turned into a great example of how what appears to be a valid strategy (I do think it's valid) can get done in by an adverse sequence of returns, depending on how it's built.

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A Not So Terrible Retirement Report

The Irrelevant Investor

I wasn't surprised to learn that 350,000 people have at least $1 million saved in a retirement account. I was surprised to learn that there are 350,000 retirement accounts at Fidelity alone. Fidelity just published their Q1 2019 retirement trends and there are some encouraging things going on.

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Are Bonds Safe During a Recession or Market Crash?

Darrow Wealth Management

The returns are normalized total returns of various bond indices during the 2008 -2009 financial crisis. When rates are low, corporations often retire high-cost debt in favor of issuing new bonds at a lower rate and a longer duration to lock in favorable rates. How do bonds perform during a recession?

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5 Ways to Protect Your Finances in 2025 from a Recession

WiserAdvisor

You hear the word recession and might be reminded of the Great Recession from late 2007 to mid-2009. Also, do not forget that liquidating your investments early may come with penalties or tax consequences, especially if you are pulling from retirement accounts, such as the Individual Retirement Account (IRA) or the 401(k).