la papillion wrote:Hi lena, I like your piece by piece picking of the article More?
It is typically in bear markets that debate on the merits of relative and absolute return funds is revived. While in a bull market, investors are happy to measure their returns against a benchmark, in a bear market, beating the benchmark is cold comfort; what investors hanker after is a positive return at a minimum. Absolute return funds, however, entail a vastly different set of risks and expectations compared with relative return vehicles.
LenaHuat wrote:Hi MM
Hence, my mantra has always been "do whatever it takes (sell or buy)" to make it grow, albeit a small small marginal growth in a bear year will ensure that it wasn't pointless for my $$ to leave the bank .
Most people don't talk about it but the larger the size of your account, the higher the probability of success. It provides you with "a margin for error" if your investment turns against you. With a small-sized account, you are often compelled to take risk unsuitable for your account size.
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