It’s always important to be prepared, and that holds especially true when it comes to investing. You need to be positioned to make hay while the sun shines but also have cover to protect yourself when the rain sweeps through.
Our five key principles have served us well here at Pie Funds, helping us generate wealth for our clients over the course of 15-plus years. Previously, we spoke about Principle Four and how we look for tailwinds. It’s important for market and global sentiment to align with a business’s proposition, creating a smoother path to long-term growth. But when the winds shift and the market crests or troughs, it’s essential to be agile and responsive.
Principle five is to set something aside for a rainy day. As we’ve all seen over the last few years, markets can dip, sometimes quite considerably. That's why we hold cash in our funds and use a seasoned approach to increase it – up to 100% if we think it’s necessary (though that is very unlikely) – to preserve investor capital.
Having available cash reserves also lets us act quickly when we see opportunities, such as when stocks fall in a market shock or recession and investors have mispriced assets. During the 2008-2009 financial crisis, this discipline saw our Australasian Growth Fund only drop half as far as its market index and then rebound to about 105% as we invested the cash reserves in underpriced companies the following year.
We believe that creating long-term wealth comes from long-term thinking, and by being ready to act decisively during potential market turns – both up and down – we’re able to generate this for our clients.
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