Okay, I could have summed up October’s markets without invoking a Halloween metaphor … but come on, it was a downright spooky market that may have left many investors feeling like they were being haunted from ghosts of Great Recession’s past. They're not. And we're not. Instead, we were all treated to volatility. And when I say “treated”, and I mean it. Volatility in and of itself is not a negative, and in fact can provide opportunity in the form of discounts or even upside gains.... Read more
Now is not the time to abandon our pursuit of long-term opportunities at near-term discounts. But doing so requires bolstered defenses that can withstand near-term uncertainties’ blows.... Read more
Like climbing a mountain: The higher you go, the thinner the air, making every new hike up more laborious while simultaneously making a misstep more treacherous. But it’s also easy to mistake what you see in front of you as the highest peak … until you summit that and see a range, like the Rockies, crenellating to the horizon. Right now, from my fundamental view, I think we could climb higher, but the risks attending doing so have risen and are likely to continue to rise.... Read more
| Model | YTD | 5-Year (Annualized) |
|---|---|---|
| Global Quant Growth | 1.4% | 9.8% |
| Growth | -0.7% | 8.1% |
| Growth & Income | -0.4% | 7.3% |
| Income | -0.3% | 4.9% |
| Annuity Growth | 1.3% | 6.6% |
| Annuity Growth & Income | 1.5% | 6.0% |
| S&P 500 | 3.0% | 11.4% |
| Fidelity Investor Index | 0.4% | 5.6% |
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Jim Lowell is Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning independent newsletters Fidelity Investor and Fidelity Sector Investor. Through his newsletters, Jim advises individual investors seeking superior performance from their Fidelity investments. He has also written several books on investing, Investing from Scratch (revised edition, Penguin, 2006) and What Every Fidelity Investor Needs to Know (Wiley, 2007) among them. Read more
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