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Case study: Maintaining investment discipline

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The benefits of “maintaining course” when investing is time-tested. If your long-term goals have not changed, avoiding any potential hasty, emotional decisions during times of uncertainty may help avoid long-lasting negative consequences. Following your investment plan can help keep you on track to achieve your investment goals.

If investors made the ill-timed decision to pull money out of stocks at the end of the first quarter, the impact may have been detrimental to achieving long-term goals.

Four individuals invest $10,000 in the same 50% equity/ 50% fixed income portfolio on January 1, 2020. By the end of March, their balances were all down to just under $9,178. At that point, they decided to take different paths:


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Going to cash at the end of Q1 2020 has been more harmful to portfolio values than even the Q1 2020 drop in stock prices:


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The Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index, or the Agg, is a broad base, market capitalization weighted bond market index representing intermediate term investment grade bonds traded in the United States. Investors frequently use the index as a stand-in for measuring the performance of the U.S. bond market.

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