Investment Updates
For Investors, 2022 Is Turning Into A Test
Published Friday, May 6, 2022 at: 7:18 PM EDT
It’s been easy being a buy and hold investor. Until now.
Stock market investments, as measured by the Standard & Poor’s 500 index, approximately doubled in value in the past five years. It was up 26.9% in 2021, 18.4% in 2020 and 31.5% in 2019, and it is 59.3% higher than at the bottom of the Covid bear market in March 2020.
This article was written by a professional financial journalist for Advisor Products and is not intended as legal or investment advice.
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