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While people commonly hold their cash within checking and savings accounts, we want to highlight three short-term, interest-bearing investments that can be held within your investment account.
It’s important to recognize how difficult it is to predict what will happen in the short-term for investment markets, and how much margin for error there should be for any prediction.
The market’s reaction to tech in the first quarter is another reminder of how hard it is to time and predict the market, even if you “know” what is going to happen.
For 2022, the bond asset class started the year with extremely low yields and less desirable return expectations. Going into 2023, the higher yields provide bond investors with a brighter outlook!
Global stock and bond markets have been tested by inflation many times in the past, and these markets have historically demonstrated their resilience in providing returns higher than inflation over time.
I would suggest that hoping things get back to “normal” would be inconsistent with history, and that moving optimistically forward in spite of fear, uncertainty, and doubt has been rewarded in the past.