Looking forward for the coming year and hoping for something better than 2011, in Financial Planning.
Financial advisers look ahead to 2012 and they discuss potential investment strategies, red flags and more.
This year has been characterized by wild daily fluctuations in the markets as investors reacted to various bits of good (Europe has solved its debt crisis!) and bad (Europe has not solved its debt crisis!) economic news.
But much like a roller coaster, the markets ended the year about where they started. The S&P 500 ended the year up 0.4 percent while the Dow Jones industrial average was up 5.5 percent. To shed more light on what the next 12 months might look like, we turned to a handful of money managers and financial advisers in Charlotte and the Triangle. Each answered a series of questions about investing strategies, economic indicators to watch in the months ahead and what they’ve learned from the global economic crisis.
Although it should go without saying, we’ll say it anyway: None of this advice is foolproof. Investors should do their own research, stay diversified and assess their own appetite for risk.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/12/31/2887468/financial-advisers-look-ahead.html#storylink=cpy
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