Equities are tumbling, REITs are falling, long term bonds are battered, commodities prices are inching up and, despite the inflation, cash is king.
In other words, your Bedokian Portfolio might have turned on its axis.
In the current economic situation where there is an armed conflict, a commodities crunch, supply chain issues, inflation, interest rate hikes, threat of a huge recession, etc. It is kind of scary. On the other hand, it kind of felt surreal as well. Never mind that our investment portfolio value is going down, maybe by 5%, 10%, 20%, or so on.
I had explained earlier that it is not a surprise where one's diversified portfolio is suffering a downturn, because that is how it is, at least for the short term. To me, an investment portfolio's runway should be at least a decade long, so (as I had always said) such moments are nothing...