{"id":1468,"date":"2016-01-04T10:58:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T10:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsfin.co.uk\/news\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2016-01-04T10:58:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T10:58:52","slug":"taking-a-long-term-view-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vizionwealth.co.uk\/news\/taking-a-long-term-view-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking a long-term view"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Remember your reasons for investing in the first place <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stock markets can be unpredictable. They move frequently \u2013 and sometimes sharply \u2013 in both directions. It is important to take a long-term view (typically ten years or more) and remember your reasons for investing in the first place.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Be prepared to view the occasional downturns simply as part of a long-term investment strategy, and stay focused on your goal.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, the longer you stay invested, the smaller the likelihood you will lose money and the greater the chance you will make money. Of course, it\u2019s worth remembering that past performance is not a guide to what might happen in the future, and the value of your investments can go down as well as up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time to grow<\/strong><br \/>\nGive your money as much time as possible to grow \u2013 at least\u00a010 years is best. You\u2019ll also benefit from \u2018compounding\u2019, which is when the interest or income on your original capital begins to earn and grow too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Staying invested<br \/>\n<\/strong>There will be times of market volatility. Market falls are a natural feature of stock market investing. During these times, it is possible that emotions overcome sound investment decisions \u2013 it is best to stay focused on your long-term goals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t try to time the market<br \/>\n<\/strong>Resist the temptation to change your portfolio in response to short-term market movement. \u2018Timing\u2019 the markets seldom works in practice and can make it too easy to miss out on\u00a0any gains.<\/p>\n<p>The golden rule to investing is allowing your investments sufficient time to achieve their potential.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Buffett, the American investor and philanthropist, puts it very succinctly: \u2018Our favourite holding period is forever.\u2019 Over the long term, investors do experience market falls which happen periodically. Generally, the wrong thing to do when markets fall by a reasonable margin is to panic and sell out of the market \u2013 this just means you have taken the loss. It\u2019s important to remember why you\u2019re invested in the first place and make sure that rationale hasn\u2019t changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember your reasons for investing in the first place Stock markets can be unpredictable. They move frequently \u2013 and sometimes sharply \u2013 in both directions. It is important to take a long-term view (typically ten years or more) and remember your reasons for investing in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vizionwealth.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vizionwealth.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vizionwealth.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vizionwealth.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vizionwealth.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vizionwealth.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vizionwealth.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vizionwealth.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vizionwealth.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}