Insights

In Part 3 of Investment Basics, we’ll look at where stock market returns really come from, and why that matters to your investing.

One of the best ways to combat recency bias is by focusing instead on the basics that have served investors well for centuries, if not millennia.

A heightened level of market volatility across both the stock and bond markets may have made you wonder if this time is different. There are broader worries as well, but we're prone to paying more attention to recent alarms than news from long ago.

The three broad U.S. stock indexes ended July 2022 with their best returns since 2020. Considering the market’s dismal returns during the first half of 2022, we’re reminded how markets often surge surprisingly.

Welcome to the second half of 2022. What’s up next? As always, your guess is as good as ours. If anything, the past quarter has demonstrated how even familiar shores can shape-shift on us with each tide. Following are a few of the ways in which the financial landscape has been disorienting us lately.

There’s been a lot of talk about recessions lately: Whether one is near, far, or perhaps already here. Whether we can or should try to avoid it. What it even means to be in a recession, and how it’s related to current market turmoil. To put market and recessionary concerns in perspective, it might help to describe six ways a recession resembles a bad mood. There are some intriguing similarities!