Gosling's Grouse: Calling the market bottom

Volatile start to the year

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Relax, everyone - I have called the bottom of the market.

I made my first active investment decision in ten years this month. The investment was not for me, it was for my three children and grandchild. I took the view I could either try and time the market, or I could be brave and get on with it. I had been sitting on the money since last summer and a mixture of apathy, lack of research, and lack of time meant I had not done anything about it. The sums are split evenly between one leading global equity income fund and one leading multi-asset fund. I will not tell you which ones, for fear of piling even more pressure on the respective fund ma...

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