Exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, have become one of the most popular investment vehicles in recent years. Mainly because they give investors what they want: low fees and competitive returns. They’re easy to buy and prolific. The trouble is, it can be difficult to evaluate ETFs as an investment.
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Investing often is more emotional than rational, and markets don’t always respond in ways that seem logical. This might surprise you, but markets have not been unusually volatile recently, although the financial media may have you believing the opposite.
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Have you ever looked at the Standard & Poor’s 500 or the Dow Industrials, and compared their performance with your own portfolio, only to be disappointed by your results?
Volatility is a normal part of investing. For long-term investors — which should include anyone with a longtime horizon for retirement — reacting emotionally to volatile markets is often more detrimental to portfolio performance than the market decline itself.
Keep in mind the difference between short-term and long-term performance.
Follow these 5 steps now so you can ride out any market turmoil later on.
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