The Reality of Red Numbers

What’s your guess as to how many months the stock market declines or rises each year? And in bad vs. good markets? Our yearly update of “The Reality of Red Numbers” shows you, and illustrates that market volatility is often a reasonable price to pay as part of a diversified portfolio, to help capture long-term positive returns… whereas inflation (purchasing power risk) is often a more harmful risk in the long-run.

S&P 500 Index returns provided by third party sources believed to be reliable. Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
Illustrations are intended as general information, and are not specific investment advice. The S&P 500 index represents just one of many investment markets that an efficient, diversified portfolio should consider.