Webcast excerpt: When is the right time to start investing?

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I’m reminded of a quotation from the good Wayne Gretzky, “You skip one hundred{ae9868201ea352e02dded42c9f03788806ac4deebecf3e725332939dc9b357ad} of the shots that you don’t acquire.” And that is legitimate for the marketplaces as effectively. The magic of compounding Greg talked about: You have to be in the sector to have the magic of compounding. Returns are pretty punchy in the sector. There are up days that are unpredictable, 2{ae9868201ea352e02dded42c9f03788806ac4deebecf3e725332939dc9b357ad} here, 1½{ae9868201ea352e02dded42c9f03788806ac4deebecf3e725332939dc9b357ad}, 3{ae9868201ea352e02dded42c9f03788806ac4deebecf3e725332939dc9b357ad} there, and then it stops. And you just can’t wait and guess when that will take place. And at the outset I advised you that you just can’t also guess where by valuations are significant. You just can’t believe that it won’t take place in the future. And so what we say is you must get invested. Get in the marketplaces. Start collaborating.

Now you may possibly be uncomfortable executing it in a lump sum, so what we would recommend is to feather it in around time. Do what is known as greenback-value averaging. Take 6 months and place that cash to operate for you around the course of all those 6 months. You don’t have to do it all at 1 time for the worry that tomorrow is the day the sector goes down. But don’t sit on it for also prolonged because no 1 understood the sector was heading to acquire off right after March, and Greg and I just can’t inform you what is heading to take place in 2021.

But what we can inform you is that if you’re not invested, you won’t get any beneficial return.

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