How to Invest at Stock Market All-Time Highs

Ready For Retirement

James Conole, CFP®

Investment Planning, Bonds, Education, Stocks, Cash, Business, Dividend Investing, Retirement Planning, Retirement, Investing, Tax Planning

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🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Our topic on this episode of the Ready for Retirement podcast is about how to invest when the stock market is at all time highs. Investing in the market can come with drastic increases and/or decreases in a short amount of time, and it can often take years to recover. It’s important to ensure you have a portfolio that provides stability when stocks take a turn for the worst. Over the past 10 years there have been extremely negative headlines such as: economic and political outcomes surroundin...

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0:00.0	Discover the tips and strategies that will help you achieve your retirement goals.
0:09.3	I'm your host, James Canole, and this is the podcast dedicated to helping you retire well.
0:14.6	It all starts right here of Ready for Retirement. I'm your host,
0:29.4	James Cannell. And today we're going to be talking about the stock market and the stock market
0:34.4	being at all-time highs. And specifically, how do we invest from the stock market
0:38.8	is at all-time highs? I don't know about you, but a lot of the conversations I'm having right now
0:42.0	is the stock market's crazy right now. And we've got this issue with something called coronavirus,
0:47.9	and we've got this unemployment numbers, and we've got all these things going on that just seem
0:52.3	completely divorced from the reality of what's happening in the
0:54.5	stock market. And the issue of is the stock market overvalued or what's driving the returns,
0:59.3	that's probably a topic for another day. But what I do want to discuss and something I think is
1:03.4	even more important is how should you approach all-time highs as an investor? And not just all-time
1:08.4	highs right now, but all-time highs in general. Usually as
1:13.1	investors, or typically as investors, we have this sense of what we're going through right now.
1:17.1	It's unprecedented or it's unique or it's there's some circumstance we're going through that we've
1:22.3	never gone through before. Well, the reality is we have. The reality is if you fast forward or rewind,
1:27.3	I should say, a year ago, we were having these exact same conversations, except instead of coronavirus, it was trade concerns with China. It was issues with the federal deficit or the federal debt. There's always something that's going on causing people to say, markets that are all-time highs, we shouldn't
1:44.2	invest because of you fill in the blank. So what we're going to do today is we're going to,
1:48.8	I want to give some perspective on all-time highs in general in stock market all-time highs and
1:52.6	how should we think about them. But from there, talk about three things that you can do to
1:56.8	protect yourself against them that are going to be unique to you and can be applied to
2:01.4	your unique situation. But let's start with this. As I just mentioned, we get the sense as investors
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