Recent market weakness has many investors worried about what it could mean for their returns, but in the long run, sell-offs and the volatility that globally diversified investors face are just small speed bumps in your goal.

News cycles can be negative, while the stock market continues to trend upwards in 2023. Market sell-offs tend to feed upon itself, culminating in a few days of intense losses — but this is always temporary. Most of the time, bad years are followed by good recovery years.

An overwhelming number of recession forecasts do not necessarily mean a recession is certain, but if major recessions of the past has shown us anything, it’s that investments still can make decent and even better returns.

Losses typically make investors nervous about the future, with many assuming that 2023 will merely be a continuation of the trend markets experienced the previous year; but what does the data say about negative annual returns on equities over the long history of stock markets?

While most would not have experienced losses in 2022 as large as the Russian market, the drawdowns in some other markets have been eyebrow-raising to say the least. Thankfully, there are some actions that will make your portfolio more resilient against such losses.

At the time of writing, we’re looking at a sell-off of-22.8% in global equity markets; if you are invested in the right asset classes, with proper risk and portfolio management, the forward returns could be tremendous.

Uncertainty is built into our world. How should we approach the idea of the unexpected when looking at the financial markets and its expected return?

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