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Investing lessons from the pandemic
– moneysense.ca
Congratulations everyone: This year is finally coming to an end! Let’s hope 2020 has been a once-in-a-century anomaly and that we can all get back to eating at restaurants and travelling across borders soon.
And while we would be happy to forget the last 12 months, it wasn’t all for naught—many of us learned some valuable financial lessons that we should take with us into the future. Here are four important ones to remember. (It’s easy to fall into bad habits when things start getting good again, so I suggest bookmarking this page and reviewing it once a year.)
1. You can’t time the markets
If you’ve been paying attention to the markets this year, then you’ll know that this is far and away the most important lesson of 2020. In March, markets around the world dropped by about 35%. It was scary, it was stomach-churning and it felt like stocks would fall forever. But they didn’t. Between Mar. 23 and Dec. 8, the S&P 500 and the S&P/TSX Composite Index climbed by 65% and 56% respectively, and both markets are up year-to-date, with the former up a whopping 13%…
And while we would be happy to forget the last 12 months, it wasn’t all for naught—many of us learned some valuable financial lessons that we should take with us into the future. Here are four important ones to remember. (It’s easy to fall into bad habits when things start getting good again, so I suggest bookmarking this page and reviewing it once a year.)
1. You can’t time the markets
If you’ve been paying attention to the markets this year, then you’ll know that this is far and away the most important lesson of 2020. In March, markets around the world dropped by about 35%. It was scary, it was stomach-churning and it felt like stocks would fall forever. But they didn’t. Between Mar. 23 and Dec. 8, the S&P 500 and the S&P/TSX Composite Index climbed by 65% and 56% respectively, and both markets are up year-to-date, with the former up a whopping 13%…
