Embracing Growth
As 2020 ends, it’s important to look back at what worked and, just as important, what DIDNT work over the last 12 months. Despite global pandemics, recessions, and political instability, fantastic businesses continued to grow and make money and delivered value to their investors. On the other side of the coin, investing based on headlines, rumors, conspiracies, and FEAR was the WORST investment strategy in 2020, securing losses and decreasing investor wealth. The big lesson here is that we must approach investing with a data-driven approach that shuns fear, discards our political biases, and focuses on GROWING YOUR WEALTH.
For investors with outsized gains in 2020, now is the time to use compounding to your advantage, which allows you to accumulate more dollars with less return. Entering 2021, our data suggests that we are in the early innings to the business cycle, which has historically led to above-average returns. For us, this means that we want to invest client money in companies that are set to benefit from years of durable growth and are disruptive leaders in their respective sectors.
In this week’s market update, we will compare the current 2020 recovery to the recoveries of 1982 and 2009, discuss the similarities and differences, and what it means for your money. Second, we will review the stock market set up for the second half of December and then wrap it up with a review of investor positioning data and what that is telling us about the factors driving stock market performance.
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