At Alman Partners True Wealth we have always advocated our clients to be diversified and patient investors. In the example below, this portfolio is invested into the top 300 Australian shares be size. If you stayed invested for the full time you received an 8% annualised return. If you missed the best 25 days your return dropped to less than 1%.
What does this mean? Out of 3,835 trading days, most of the returns were generated on 25 days.
The lesson here for investors is this; It is impossible to time your entry into markets. Secondly, we do not know when these days will come, so once you diversify your portfolio stay patient to collect your expected return.
Stephen Lowry CFP, DFP, FAIM, is a representative of Alman Partners Pty Ltd, Australian Financial Services Licence No: 222107.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results and current performance may be higher or lower than the performance shown. The investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost.
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