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I'm 40 ... my IRA and 401K combine for 55 percent of my net worth. Have invested more aggressively the past five years and that has paid dividends with how the economy has performed.
A lot. But I don't buy index funds, I buy individual companies. So the stock market overall has almost ZERO effect on how my investments do. What matters is how well the CEOs run the companies I own.
Actually very few stocks don’t float with the tide . Picking individual stocks just adds another element of risk on to market risk and that is individual company risk too .
Each recession plays out different enough to make the winners in the last recessions the losers in the next .
It used to be said financial services stocks were a good shelter in a recession but in 2008 they were the big losers
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