The stock markets are in the red right now.
Especially if you invested sometime in January or February 2020.
Back in late February 2020, I had put in $13,250 into a robo-advisor with 100% allocation into equities (FYI: equities = stock market).
As of 23 March 2020, it was worth $10,465 (it’s since recovered a little).
Here, let me show you.
(Down 22.7%. Oof. And I think it’ll stay that way for a while.)
That’s fine, to be honest.
I’ve slowly built up holding power over the years.
And I have absolute faith that a globally diversified portfolio of index funds and exchange-traded funds — which many other robo-advisors also invest in — will rise up in the long term.
What’s NOT fine though, are your misconceptions about robo-advisors.
But it’s okay, we are here to help you with that.
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