Saturday, April 26, 2014

Americans still don't trust the stock market

http://money.cnn.com/2014/04/21/investing/stocks-investor-survey/index.html?iid=HP_Highlight


          Investing in stock market is the best way to become wealthy because of the high return. But apparently American people still trust house market more. It has been more than five years after the financial crisis in 2009, most of American people still believe stock market is risky, with the result that 73% people are not intend to invest in stock. Although the S&P 500 has more than doubled in value after bottoming in 2009.
         But the experts said Investing in diverse portfolio is the best way to grow wealth over a long period of time considering the inflation. The experts suggested that inflation will undermine the value of fixed income assets like bonds.

3 comments:

  1. This is not surprising me to me, especially in light of the movie we're watching in class. Dr. Skosples also mentioned how the incredible performance of the market might be an indication that another bubble of sorts is forming. After being so hard hit by the recession, Americans must be very wary of investing with big firms.

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  2. People are weary of investing in the stock market because of the recent great recession. Because of this, they are investing in more low-risk things such as bonds and cash. If stocks stay in a bull market, I think we will soon see the 73% drop as investment in the stock market will increase.

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  3. Ever since the housing crash and all of the "AAA backed securities" that were mismanaged and frankly mislabeled (although technically correct at the time) many people are afraid to put their money back into the market. We are really talking about individual U.S citizens... not corporations or private equity firms.

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