Opinion
Know what you own and own what you know
JEREMY BLATCH (jb@ehh.gi)
...crashed and burned. As investors, focusing on what we know and not on what we cannot know saves us from being hoisted on our own petards. In these irrational times of sharply increasing stock prices, understanding yourself, your priorities and your ... rising prices lift portfolio values? This scenario means that stocks are more expensive and that future returns will be lower. When prices fall in the stock market, we stop buying, and when they rise sharply, we tend to buy. Unless we know what we own and