Quarterly Commentary
Q1 2020: The Math of Loss & The Art of Calm
The numbers are important. Investors no longer have to wonder when the next major market correction (and bear market) will arrive. In Q1 of 2020, the historic bull market was met, and ended, with a historic selloff. No more “what-ifs”, no more looking backwards at data such as “how would it have done in a crisis like 2008”, no more Monte-Carlo simulations and predictions. Investment portfolio construction, and more importantly, investment process in times of distress, was tested in real-time. In the first quarter of 2020...