Realistic
This is the fourth in a series of posts about my investing philosophy – Realistic. Investors should be realistic about their expectations and the nature of the markets. No one can predict the future. After hearing 10 years of “The easy money has already been made”, it’s clear that most can’t even predict the present. It sure didn’t feel easy at the time. While no one knows the returns or risks in advance, investors with a reality-based approach to investing can craft a long-lived investment process. Realistic Market Expectations Expect markets to go up over the long term. This is not optimism or a leap of faith. It’s realism. Humans will continue to innovate and seek to put their capital to work. Not every asset class will go up at the same time forever, but that’s what diversification is for – to eliminate the need to predict what asset classes will go…