It’s old news that managing expectations is usually the main challenge in finding success with an investment strategy. To paraphrase Pogo in the quest to earn a respectable return through time, we’ve met the enemy of prudent behavior and he is us. Less obvious is the tendency for this behavioral risk to go to extremes early on in the period immediately following the establishment of a new investment. By comparison, a decade or more into the holding period — assuming you make it that far — is relatively safe from a behavioral perspective.
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UK and EU reach provisional agreement on Brexit: CNBC
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China’s retail spending trend slows as industrial output picks up: Reuters
German economy shrank in Q3, first decline since 2015: Bloomberg
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