While a stable job market and cooling inflation are positive signs, declining GDP growth, rising consumer debt and uncertainty surrounding trade policy are areas of concern. Nobody knows how all these factors will play out. If only the outcome were as easy as choosing ice cream flavors.
Whether a decline is modest and short-lived or sometimes long and painful, investors should stay with their long-term plans and continue investing.
Are investors optimistic, emotionally spent or climbing a wall of worry as we move into the first quarter of 2025?
How we prepare our portfolios for what is next is the cornerstone of why diversification works over a long-term view within the context of change.
Investors have other concerns with respect to two main topics: Inflation and the Election.
As we think about the uncertainty we are faced with this year, we recognize that there are many unknowns that could derail our progress, but we remain optimistic about the long-term prospects for equities within the context of a diversified portfolio.