While stories about stock market falls are guaranteed to make headlines, the subsequent rebounds in prices get less coverage; and that’s when the best investors can often make their money. While the great financial crisis of 2008 and the stock market lows of March 2009 are still fresh in many people’s memories, it’s worth noting that an investment then in global stocks would have grown more than twofold more than a decade down the line*.
That might be an extreme example with those kinds of returns never guaranteed, and those who try to se...