Webcast excerpt: When is the right time to start investing?
Transcript
I’m reminded of a quote from the terrific Wayne Gretzky, “You skip one hundred{744e41c82c0a3fcc278dda80181a967fddc35ccb056a7a316bb3300c6fc50654} of the shots that you really don’t just take.” And that is true for the marketplaces as well. The magic of compounding Greg talked about: You have to be in the market place to have the magic of compounding. Returns are very punchy in the market place. There are up days that are unpredictable, two{744e41c82c0a3fcc278dda80181a967fddc35ccb056a7a316bb3300c6fc50654} below, 1½{744e41c82c0a3fcc278dda80181a967fddc35ccb056a7a316bb3300c6fc50654}, 3{744e41c82c0a3fcc278dda80181a967fddc35ccb056a7a316bb3300c6fc50654} there, and then it stops. And you simply cannot hold out and guess when that will happen. And at the outset I advised you that you simply cannot also guess wherever valuations are superior. You simply cannot assume that it will not happen in the potential. And so what we say is you should get invested. Get in the marketplaces. Start participating.
Now you may well be unpleasant doing it in a lump sum, so what we would advise is to feather it in about time. Do what’s known as greenback-charge averaging. Acquire 6 months and put that funds to do the job for you about the class of people 6 months. You really don’t have to do it all at a single time for the fear that tomorrow is the working day the market place goes down. But really don’t sit on it for also extended mainly because no a single knew the market place was heading to just take off right after March, and Greg and I simply cannot notify you what’s heading to happen in 2021.
But what we can notify you is that if you’re not invested, you will not get any optimistic return.
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