Ask the Adviser: How can I best protect my investments as the markets are sinking?
Before the stock market begins to decline, investors need to have a set of plans designed to remove emotion from the decision-making process.
Investors don't plan to fail. They fail to plan.
Markets typically pullback every month. Most pullbacks are nothing more than innocuous 3% to 5% dips — short bouts of weakness followed by new highs. Every quarter or so, the shallow pullback deepens to a 6% to 9% drop. Occasionally, full-fledged c
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