{"id":3661,"date":"2021-12-17T11:19:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T11:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/?p=3661"},"modified":"2021-12-17T11:19:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T11:19:02","slug":"blocking-out-noise-for-the-good-of-your-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/2021\/12\/17\/blocking-out-noise-for-the-good-of-your-portfolio\/","title":{"rendered":"Blocking out \u2018noise\u2019 for the good of your portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p><strong>It\u2019s so easy to feel overwhelmed by the endless barrage of\nnegative news or <em>\u2018noise\u2019<\/em>, which can stoke anxiety about the performance\nof your investments and doubts over whether your investment strategy is on\ncourse. Learning to block out this noise, which may influence hasty or erratic\ninvestment decisions, is essential.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p>By keeping a record of your reasons for investing, you can help temper\nany inclination to deviate off course. Revisiting your initial decisions\nenables you to gauge whether your long-term priorities have altered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p><strong>Step back and breathe<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p>The use of devices allows us to instantly be updated, which is important\nfor things like keeping in touch with family, but with investing, avoid the\ntemptation to set up alert notifications for companies or funds in which you\nare invested. Short but sweet advice from global investment guru Warren Buffett\nin 2016, after a period of extreme market volatility, perpetually rings true, <em>\u201cDon\u2019t\nwatch the market closely.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p>Although there are obviously no guarantees, blocking out <em>\u2018noise\u2019<\/em>\nto focus on the long term, gives your investments a greater chance of yielding\npositive returns and benefiting from compounding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p><strong><em>The value\nof investments and income from them may go down. You may not get back the\noriginal amount invested.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s so easy to feel overwhelmed by the endless barrage of negative news or \u2018noise\u2019, which can stoke anxiety about the performance of your investments and doubts over whether your investment strategy is on course. Learning to block out this noise, which may influence hasty or erratic investment decisions, is essential. By keeping a record [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":3662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,89,88,90],"tags":[],"hd_content_source":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3709,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions\/3709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3661"},{"taxonomy":"hd_content_source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hd_content_source?post=3661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}