Investing For The Short Term
Sure, we all like to think long term, but sometimes you need to shorten your focus. Here are some places to look.
Even though we investors are trained to think long term, which typically means several years, sometimes a lot of things can change in just a few months. As an example, look to the performance of the Standard & Poor’s 500.
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Over the past year it’s down 39.8%, which is quite a steep tumble. But if you go back six months the picture starts to look a lot more manageable, even if it doesn’t quite look good yet, with markets down 15%. Those who have gotten into the markets more recently, in other words, have found smoother sailing than those who have been in longer. This leads us to try to find some attractive areas for investment for the next six months to one year. It’s all well and good to be in it for the long haul, but if your investments are killing you there’s an excellent chance you may never reach that promised payday. You might want to consider what could work in the market we have, not the market we want.
The Forbes Investor Team applied their various areas of expertise to this very question and came back with some interesting and diverse answers.
John Osbon, the head of Osbon Capital Management, feels that over the next year, or so, investors should look to the developing world. But he feels that trying to pick individual stocks here is to miss the larger play, so he recommends the Vanguard Emerging Market ( VWO – news - people ) exchange-traded fund.
Full Story: http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/20/short-term-emerging-intelligent-investing-markets.html
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