The Post-Pandemic Portfolio: The Asset Class New Investors Can’t Afford To Miss
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The word ‘recession’ has echoed through every industry since last March when the financial effects of the pandemic became undeniable. But ‘recovery’ is perhaps the more useful word as we fix our gazes forward. A sooner-than-expected opening of the US economy, paired with a swift vaccine rollout and a steady incline in employment, has delivered us to a new economic landscape faster than we might have anticipated. And crafting a recovery-era portfolio is an art on its own.
The basic principles still apply; portfolio diversity is positive, due diligence is necessary, and limiting investments to amounts that are manageable to lose will always be a must. But unlike recessions, which are known to have weak equity market performance and stronger fixed-income levels, recovery economies offer investors a different market landscape. Stocks could boom as the economy expands and consumer confidence returns, if slowly, to the market. And as it does, the distribution of opportunity is rarely uniform.
It’s for good reason, then, that investors both young and established are weighing the balance of their post-COVID approach. Strong strategies obey the fundamentals while taking the shifts of the past year into account. There have been massive rearrangements across our personal and corporate normal, some of which will endure and shape the details of our recovery, making them an important part of any post-pandemic portfolio.
The New COVID-Era Asset Class: The Shorter-Term Stay
Change, as the only COVID-constant, has impacted the housing market. The work-from-anywhere adoption has forever altered the way we think about home, office, and ‘home office.’ Newly liberated from the locale of the office, more families are exploring different markets with more favorable living conditions. Professionals are engaging in local, leisure travel, looking for spacious properties with remote work amenities. Most importantly, every tenant...
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