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My Portfolio Has Lost Value—Now What?

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When your investments are going up, it’s easy to picture how you’ll react when they go down because you don’t really feel it.  Not at that moment.  In fact, you’re feeling pretty good, what with your investments going up and all.  It sure is different when the actual down period hits, though, isn’t it?  We are ten months into this current stock market downturn and a traditional diversified portfolio of half stocks and half bonds is down roughly -18%.  Our corresponding portfolios at Cadence are down a fair bit less than that, but more on that later.  Ten months into…

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