It could mean slightly
larger bear market losses for diversified stock and bond portfolios.
Not exact matches
Sure, you can invest in stocks, but you may not have the stomach for that when you're north of 65 and don't have time to make up for the
large losses that a
market crash or a prolonged
bear market can bring.
Retail securities tend to track the
market as a whole but with a greater degree of volatility, resulting in stronger gains during bull
markets but
larger losses during
bear markets.
Book - ended by two equity
bear markets, the past decade (2000 — 2010) saw heightened financial stresses and
large losses in investment portfolios.
The
largest losses during
bear markets tend to come on the heels of overbought advances, and our measures presently don't offer happy green - shoot optimism that the
market's difficulties are now behind it.
We understand you can't invest in risk assets and simultaneously protect against both smaller, short - term
losses (corrections) and
larger, longer - term
losses (
bear markets) and given the difference in the nature and impacts of corrections versus
bear markets, we've chosen to seek protection from the latter.
In 1972, small stocks were cheap relative to
large companies, but that didn't save them from participating in the 1973 - 1974
bear market and ending up with multi-year annualized
losses.
Both groups experienced sharp
losses during the 1973 - 1974
bear market, but
large - caps were hit harder.
Loss of such capital
market access by companies which needed continuous access was the precipitant for a
large number of the biggest insolvencies in U.S. history: Drexel Burnham, Enron,
Bear Stearns, Washington Mutual and Lehman Brothers.
But if these strategies are impossible to implement and you want some sort of mechanical guidance to reduce the risk of
large bear - market losses, the Bear Alert and All - Clear may be of some assista
bear -
market losses, the
Bear Alert and All - Clear may be of some assista
Bear Alert and All - Clear may be of some assistance.
Retail securities tend to track the
market as a whole but with a greater degree of volatility, resulting in stronger gains during bull
markets but
larger losses during
bear markets.
Despite having minimal allocation to
large cap funds, it has contained its
losses in
bear markets.
This allows them to charge premiums that the
market will
bear, while still maintaining the capacity to pay claims in a
large - scale
loss.