As we navigate through the tail end of 2021, the financial press is once again overflowing with predictions. It is human nature to crave certainty which can lead to us supporting predictions that best fit the information we have consumed.
There are a few foolproof ways to make yourself sound smart. One is to dwell and pontificate on the negative and what might happen to take the world down. The other, is to use fancy lingo to explain a simple concept.
As humans, we constantly wrestle with trying to make the complex simpler in order to make it fit within a framework that we can understand and control. 2020 was a reminder that life is sometimes complex, and that… is unavoidable.
When we started our careers in the investment industry over 20 years ago, we would have never predicted writing something called a BLOG, let alone a Blog with this title. Well…. here we are.
As the pandemic starts to dissipate, businesses will open and individuals will come out of hibernation, but our world will be forever changed. Time at home has allowed for self-reflection. New behaviors will be adopted by individuals and businesses alike.