GYC Insights
Articles on real-life financial issues written to educate and enlighten.
Worries Abound, But Investment Returns Will Still Come
While negative returns are part and parcel of investing, it happens less often than you think. The past four years are actually very representative of how markets work in general — positive returns 75% of the time, and losses, 1 out of 4 times.
Your Average Return
An old joke goes - a statistician is a person who lays with his head in an oven and his feet in a freezer happily proclaiming “On average, I feel comfortable.”
Taking that example into the investment world, averages seldom reflect actual investor experience.