Ep 41: Coronavirus & Your Investment Strategy Part 2

Retire Smarter with Kevin Kroskey, CFP® & Tyler Emrick, CFA® CFP® · Mar 19, 2020 · 35m

Timing the market sounds great, especially during times of market distress like that caused by Cornovirus (COVID-19) concerns. Who wouldn't want to participate only in the ups while avoiding the downs!? Sadly, the only way market timing will work is for you to get lucky, which is no way to invest your life savings.

Listen to Kevin describe the theoretical reasoning about why market timing does work and investigate both the academic research as well as the actual record of mutual funds that follow timing strategies. It's interesting to see how the research has been verified in practice by…