When markets turn volatile, keep a long-term focus
Donât let short-term market changes impact your long-term goals. Hereâs why.
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Donât let short-term market changes impact your long-term goals. Hereâs why.
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One of the fundamental ideas I try to promote here at Get Rich Slowly is your savings ought to be invested for long-term growth. You ought to use the magic of compounding to create a wealth snowball.
Naturally, you want put your money into an investment that offers a reasonable return and acceptable risk. But which investment is best? I believe — as do most financial experts — that you’re most likely to achieve high returns by investing in the stock market.
But why do so many people favor the stock market? How much does the stock market actually return? Is it really better than investing in real estate? Or Bitcoin? Let’s take a look.
In Stocks for the Long Run, Jeremy Siegel analyzed the historical performance of several types of investments. Siegelâs research showed that for the period between 1926 and 2006 (when he wrote the book):
My own calculations â and those of Consumer Reports magazine â show that real estate does worse than gold over the long term. (I come up with a real return of just under one percent.) Yes, you can make money with real estate investing, but it’s far more complicated than just buying a home and expecting its value to soar. (It’s important to note that returns on real estate are a contentious subject. This recent academic paper analyzing the rate of return on “almost everything” found that housing actually outperforms the stock market by a slight margin.)
Siegel found that stocks have been returning a long-term average of about seven percent for 200 years. If
youâd purchased one dollar of stocks in 1802, it would have grown to more than $750,000 in 2006. If youâd instead put a dollar into bonds, youâd have just $1,083. And if youâd put that money in gold? Well, itâd be worth almost two bucks â after inflation.
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Over the past three months, I’ve written a lot about buying and owning a home. Much of what I’ve written could be construed as anti-homeownership. Hear are some of the articles I’ve published recently:
Last week, a GRS reader named Carmine left this comment:
I appreciate this and other recent posts on the perils and difficulties of home ownership, but theyâre sort of piling up into a major downer as I read them!…Canât you write something talking about the payoffs that home ownership can bring?
Challenge accepted!
I can understand how Carmine might view all of this as a downer. And I can see how anyone might think I’m anti-homeownership. But here’s the thing: I’m not. After all, I own my home, and I like it.
Today, let’s take a look at some of the advantages of homeownership.
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Mortgage rates moved down another four basis points this week, as the markets anticipated the 25 basis point increase the Federal Open Market Committee announced on Wednesday. The Freddie Mac Primary Market Survey for Feb. 2 found the average for the 30-year fixed rate mortgage at 6.09%, down from 6.13% one week prior. The 15-year … [Read more…]
Mortgage rates responded favorably to yesterday’s press conference with Fed Chair Powell. We discussed that move in detail in yesterday’s commentary: Fed Hikes Rates. Mortgage Rates Drop. Here’s How That Works. Now today, the average lender improved just a bit more as the Fed’s European counterpart released its latest policy announcement. Like the Fed, the European Central Bank (ECB) hiked rates at the same pace expected by markets but delivered comments that left the bond market feeling more upbeat. In the case of the ECB announcement, it was logically the European bond market that felt more upbeat. But there’s a certain amount of interconnectedness among the world’s leading markets, so it’s common to see spillover into US rates when something is pushing EU rates lower. Given that US rates already experienced a fairly large move yesterday, they were somewhat resistant to the idea of going on a wild road trip toward even lower levels with their crazy European friends. US rates were nonetheless on that trip just long enough for the average 30yr fixed rate quote to touch 5.99% for top tier scenarios. For all practical purposes, that means mortgage rates are basically at 6% with some lenders quoting slightly lower and a few more lenders quoting slightly higher. Friday morning brings the important jobs report which has the power to push rates quickly higher or lower depending on the outcome of the data.
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I was reading up on what’s new in the mortgage markets and the economy over the weekend, and one piece of reporting caught my eye because it seemed like it couldn’t possibly be true. It was talking about how the Obama administration is considering making a move later this month where Fannie Mae and Freddie […]
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