The most dangerous thing to say in investing is “this time it’s different”. We have taken a look back over the last 84 years at all the biggest reasons reasons you could come up with in any given year to not invest.
There will always be reasons.
But the stock market will blissfully ignore our reasons to be fearful and will keep moving forward.
Our friend and ally in overcoming this fear is simple.
Time.
If you are fearful about your investments why not schedule a quick chat to see if your portfolio is right for your requirements here:
| 2020 | COVID-19, Australian Bush Fire, US Election, Brexit Trade Talks |
| 2019 | Stock Markets Hit Record Highs, UK Election |
| 2018 | US-China Trade Wars, Brexit Talks Stall |
| 2017 | Trump Inaugoration, Brexit Uncertainty, UK General Election |
| 2016 | Brexit Vote, US Elections |
| 2015 | Chinese Stock Market Turbulance, The Paris Attacks and U.S. Mass Shootings |
| 2014 | Ebola Outbreak, Scottish Referendum, Fighting in Ukraine and Crimea |
| 2013 | US Senate Expenses Scandal, Boston Marathon Bombing |
| 2012 | Greek Debt Crisis, Falling Off the U.S. Fiscal Cliff |
| 2011 | London Riots, Japanese Tsunami, The European Debt Crises |
| 2010 | BP Oil Spill, UK Spending Cuts, Coalition Government |
| 2009 | U.S. Unemployment Rate Exceeds 10% |
| 2008 | The Global Financial Crisis Begins |
| 2007 | The Chinese Correction, Gordon Brown Succeeds Tony Blair, SNP Becomes Scotland Largest Political Party |
| 2006 | North Korea Tests Nuclear Missiles, Mumbai Train Bombings |
| 2005 | Gulf Hurricanes, London Bombings |
| 2004 | Interest Rates Rise, Decline Of The Dollar |
| 2003 | Invasion of Iraq |
| 2002 | Corporate Accounting Scandals, US Invades Aghanistan |
| 2001 | Terrorist Attacks on USA |
| 2000 | Tech Bubble Burst |
| 1999 | Y2K Scare |
| 1998 | Asian Flu |
| 1997 | Hong Kong Reverts to China |
| 1996 | Dow Tops 6,000 |
| 1995 | Dow Tops 5,000 |
| 1994 | Fed Raises Interest Rates Six Times |
| 1993 | Health Care Reform |
| 1992 | Global Recession |
| 1991 | Fall of Berlin Wall, UK Recession |
| 1990 | Persian Gulf War |
| 1989 | October “Mini-Crash” |
| 1988 | Iran Hostage Crisis |
| 1987 | Record-Setting Market Decline |
| 1986 | Dow Near 2000 |
| 1985 | Economic Growth Slows, Riots in Brixton and Broadwater |
| 1984 | Record Federal Deficits In US, Miner’s Strike |
| 1983 | Market Hits New Highs |
| 1982 | Worst Recession in 40 Years, Falklands War, 3 Million Unemployed |
| 1981 | Steep Recession Begins, Brixton Riots |
| 1980 | Interest Rates At All-Time High, Inflation Rockets |
| 1979 | Oil Prices Skyrocket, Devolution Of Scotland and Wales |
| 1978 | Winter Of Discontent, Interest Rates Rise In US |
| 1977 | Rising Inflation and Market Slumps |
| 1976 | Sterling Crisis, High Inflation nd Unemployment |
| 1975 | Thatcher Becomes Leader Of Conservative Party, EEC Referendum |
| 1974 | Steepest Market Drop in Four Decades In US, State Of Emergency Announced in Northern Ireland |
| 1973 | Stock Market Falls 45%, British SHares Fall £4 Billion In One Day |
| 1972 | Watergate, Largest U.S. Trade Deficit Ever, Munich Massacre |
| 1971 | Indo-Pakistan War |
| 1970 | Cambodia Invaded- Vietnam Spreads |
| 1969 | Money Tightens, Dow Jones Declines 18% |
| 1968 | USS Pueblo Seized, Robert F Kennedy Assassination |
| 1967 | Arab-Israeli War |
| 1966 | Vietnam War Escalates |
| 1965 | Civil Rights Marches |
| 1964 | Gulf of Tonkin |
| 1963 | John F Kennedy Assassinated |
| 1962 | Cuba Missile Crisis |
| 1961 | Berlin Wall Erected |
| 1960 | Russia Downs U-2 Plane |
| 1959 | Castro Seizes Power in Cuba |
| 1958 | Recession |
| 1957 | Russia Launches Sputnik |
| 1956 | Suez Crisis |
| 1955 | Eisenhower Illness |
| 1954 | Dow Tops 300- MARKET HIGH |
| 1953 | Russia Explodes H-Bomb |
| 1952 | U.S. Seizes Steel Mills |
| 1951 | Excess Profits Tax |
| 1950 | Korean War |
| 1949 | Russia Explodes A-Bomb |
| 1948 | Berlin Blockade |
| 1947 | Cold War Begins |
| 1946 | Dow Tops 200- MARKET HIGH |
| 1945 | Post-War Recession Predicted |
| 1944 | Consumer Goods Shortage |
| 1943 | Industry Mobilizes |
| 1942 | Wartime Price Controls |
| 1941 | Pearl Harbor |
| 1940 | France Falls |
| 1939 | War in Europe |
| 1938 | War Clouds Gather |
| 1937 | Recession |
| 1936 | Economy Still Struggling |
