Are You Spooked by Stock Market Headlines? | The Informed Investor 18

Episode 18: Are you spooked by stock market headlines?

When investors look back at market history, they'll find a grotesquely gory list of horrible headlines.

"The Death of Equities" (1982), "Apocalypse Soon" (1993), and "The End Is Near" (2018) are just three examples. Several other hair-raising headlines probably had many investors hunting for monsters under the bed.

But here's the thing: More often than not, these headlines turned out to be horrendously off-base.

For the record, a long bull market began in 1982. The 1990s delivered huge gains. And during the five years from 2018 to 2023, a period that included the pandemic, the S&P 500 climbed more than 50%.

No investor can be faulted for reacting emotionally to scare stories about the market or the economy. But it's important to separate your fears from your approach to money management.

In honor of Halloween, Episode 18 of the "The Informed Investor" podcast with Dimensional's Mark Gochnour, Head of Global Client Services, Wes Crill, PhD, Senior Client Solutions Director, and Jake DeKinder, Head of Client Communications, digs up some ghastly stock market stories from history's graveyard and offers some perspective on how to cope with nerve-racking news.

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LINKS FROM TODAY'S EPISODE:

"The Grumpy Economist" on Growth, Tariffs, and the Fed WITH JOHN COCHRANE Tuesday, November 11, 1 pm CT REGISTER: https://event.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1736505&tp_key=1cdc223812

The Informed Investor on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCyJr6FFig-h1mA7rVP7Mbk0irFw2wA90

Mark Gochnour on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-gochnour-9a23598a/

Wes Crill on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/wes-crill-77a49417/

Jake DeKinder on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-dekinder-cfa-4105b98/

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