Here you can view DFA's Q2, 2020 Market Summary Report. And check out this video where we take a deeper look into it, and explain what it means to you.
THE ELECTION AND YOUR RETIREMENT
Have you found yourself saying, “Ugh, I hope that guy doesn’t win!?!” What if “that guy” does win? How does his victory impact your retirement portfolio? Notice I didn’t specify “that guy” is Trump or Biden…because – when it comes to your retirement portfolio – it doesn’t really matter who wins.
“It’s natural for investors to look for a connection between who wins the White House and which way stocks will go. But as nearly a century of returns shows, stocks have trended upward across administrations from both parties.” Taken from DFA's article here, and referencing the below graphic, regardless of the party in the charge, stocks go up when given enough time, therefore your retirement portfolio will go up when given enough time, as well. Come November 3rd, you’re welcome to be elated or livid for other reasons, but don’t be for stock market reasons.
Q1, 2021 QUARTERLY REPORT
Q4, 2020 MARKET SUMMARY REPORT
Here you’ll find the Q4, 2020 Market Summary. [page graphics pasted below] Page 3 shows a strong 4th quarter for US stocks, international stocks, emerging stocks, and global real estate. When you compare page 3 to page 4 “Long-Term Market Summary” you’ll see 4th quarter capped off a strong year for stocks led by the US stock market and emerging markets. Global real estate was down over 9%, but it’s still a slice of a diversified portfolio we want to hold. Looking at global real estate’s 5- and 10-year track record supports that claim.
With everything negative that happened in 2020, it might come as a shock that markets performed so well. When I wrote my Q1, 2020 Market Summary – only 9 months ago – stocks and global real estate were down for the year anywhere from 21% - 29%. Markets go up and markets go down, but it’s important to remember major stock markets go down for a short time, while they ultimately go up forever. When they do go down, we need to be ready buy good companies on sale, and that’s what we did in March of 2020.
Hopefully, we don’t go through another global pandemic, but we do know we will go through another market downturn (it will probably be sharp…but we know it will be temporary). When that happens, we’ll be prepared; we’ll be more relaxed cause we’ve seen it before, we’ll capitalize on it and our resolve will be rewarded once again. We don’t know when it will happen, but when it does, we’ll be ready.
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