Why it’s Important to Stay Invested!

It comes as little surprise that, over the long term, equities outperform bonds, and that bonds outperform cash. So, why is it so challenging to make the decision to invest? Uncertainty, volatility, and psychological biases all prevent investors, even those more willing to take risks, from making the leap and entering the market. 

Whilst many clients were comparing the positive cash returns last year to investment returns, over the last 13 months our PRISM H5 balanced strategy returned 6.7%whilst UK base rates returned 5.2% and to achieve a return close to UK base rates at the Bank clients would need to lock it away – typically for 12 months or more.

In the picture below we review how markets performed over the last 13 months and summarise the key events.

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