- Over time, equities go up
- Or did they just go up for the past century?
How’s this for a bit of upbeat, award-winning analysis: “That well-worn advice – time in the stock market beats attempts to time the stock market – has plenty to commend it, it turns out”?
The author? Yours truly. The award? CFA UK’s trade journalist of the year, given for a piece published last year on the long-term resilience of equities. And the need for this boastful mention? Well, it’s less of a brag than an admission. You see, reading it back a year on, it's worth looking at again.