Best of all, the combination of lower interest rates and lower stock prices, has reduced the risk in the stock market. This should lead to better markets in time. Most strategists believe it is too late to sell stocks, and many have actually increased the equity weightings in their recommended strategies in recent weeks. Recent market turmoil should serve as a strong reminder of the need to diversify assets. Investing portions of one's portfolio in bonds and money markets, as well as equities, and not concentrating too much on a single asset type.
Diversified portfolios weather difficult markets much more comfortably than concentrated portfolios.
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