Hi all
looking to invest some of my super In vanguard vas and vgs and was wondering if it’s a good time now to invest?
The best time to invest is when you feel you are ready and understand the potential implications of your investment.Hi all
looking to invest some of my super In vanguard vas and vgs and was wondering if it’s a good time now to invest?
Thanks you, I think I’ll just sit on the sidelines and watch it for a week or two with this omicron around who knows what’s going to happen’Nobody knows what the market will do tomorrow, next week, a month from now or next year. It could be the best investment decision you've ever made, or the worst. Anything anyone here tells you would be a guess.
Sorry I can't be of more help, but that's the most truthful answer I can give. I've been wrong about the market more times than I care to count.
Mmm yes I’m a newbie so I get that stock goes up and down and currently it’s really up so maybe I just keep my investment in cash for now.In general considering a long time line, indexes were cheaper 3 months ago, 12 months ago and 2 years ago, PE ratios are crazy high now, correction territory high. Is it a good time to invest in index funds? a better question is - will there be a better time to invest in index funds over the next 2 years?
You have missed a big leg up over the last 2 years being 100% cash, the stock market isn't for everyone, many experts and punters like me played covid all wrong or at least didn't make as much as we should have. Can i ask if you were temped to enter the market back in mid 2020 when the indexes were cheap?I have had it cash since covid started and I’m not making anything on it so just looking for somewhere reasonably safe to invest in!
Look mistakenly took it out when covid started as I got spooked and lost a bit then.You have missed a big leg up over the last 2 years being 100% cash, the stock market isn't for everyone, many experts and punters like me played covid all wrong or at least didn't make as much as we should have. Can i ask if you were temped to enter the market back in mid 2020 when the indexes were cheap?
I did some spooky selling early covid as well as i needed money for a real estate purchase and i knew some cheap stocks were going to be coming along and decided it was a good year to have a tax loss, anyway if real estate is your thing the listed REIT's are trading at reasonably low PE's at the moment, the REIT index ETF's are yielding 4 to 5% a little more conservative compared to the broader market indexes.Look mistakenly took it out when covid started as I got spooked and lost a bit then.
Cheers for the info, real estate is generally my thing but I would like to diversify some of my investments into other classes also.I did some spooky selling early covid as well as i needed money for a real estate purchase and i knew some cheap stocks were going to be coming along and decided it was a good year to have a tax loss, anyway if real estate is your thing the listed REIT's are trading at reasonably low PE's at the moment, the REIT index ETF's are yielding 4 to 5% a little more conservative compared to the broader market indexes.
That's the key question as I see it.a better question is - will there be a better time to invest in index funds over the next 2 years?
That's the key question as I see it.
Is there likely to be a better time than right now?
In my opinion we're overdue for a decent correction which would provide a better entry point BUT that's not a guarantee we'll actually get one soon.
I guess with these index funds your covered as it’s spread so far over multiples so it would take a big issue for it to turn them all….look at how it reacted to covid! Down then up up up.I've got some exposure to the market, so happy to see it bubbling along.
But as others have said already, just don't know what could cause the everything bubble to wobble. Thought Evergrande was going to shake things up a bit, but looks like punters are at harder than ever before when it comes to Estate, Stocks, Bonds and all other everything bubble that nothing seems to fade the feeding frenzy...?
If you look back at the GFC, it took the all ords 10 years to get back to where it was prior to the GFC, so using the current rebound as a yardstick just highlights the saying, dont use historical performance as a guide to future performance.I guess with these index funds your covered as it’s spread so far over multiples so it would take a big issue for it to turn them all….look at how it reacted to covid! Down then up up up.
I guess with these index funds your covered as it’s spread so far over multiples so it would take a big issue for it to turn them all….look at how it reacted to covid! Down then up up up.
How much ; for how long ; what type? There are so many different ETFs.Hi all
looking to invest some of my super In vanguard vas and vgs and was wondering if it’s a good time now to invest?
Perhaps the appropriate ending of the everything bubble is anything and everything, i really dont think its gona take much, have been some big losses in some crypto based assets lately, talking 60 to 90%.just don't know what could cause the everything bubble to wobble.
There you go then, thanks for that!It's really just a question of whether there's an opportunity to do better than buying right now?
Suppose for example that someone had invested $100,000 into VAS at the opening price on 20 February 2020, the high point before the crash.
Excluding brokerage costs for simplicity, they'd have bought 1099 shares.
Now suppose that they had bought near the bottom of the crash, buying at the open on 24 March 2020. The same $100,000 would have bought 1699 shares.
The difference?
$100k on 20 February 2020 would today be worth $106,295.28 with distributions during 2021 of $2559.57
$100k invested on 24 March 2020 would today be worth $164,327.28 with distributions during 2021 of $3956.97
What that shows is yes those who invested at the worst possible time but held on have still made a profit but if they'd known that there was a crash about to happen and had waited then invested near the bottom they'd have made a far larger profit.
That's an historic example only and is not a recommendation etc. Price and distribution data sourced from CommSec.
Hi all
looking to invest some of my super In vanguard vas and vgs and was wondering if it’s a good time now to invest?
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