Tag: stock market decline

A businessman is looking at a graph on a monitor

It is always interesting to look at Vanguard’s most recent edition of “How America Saves.”  And it is particularly interesting to get the numbers for 2022 – not a good year for the stock market.  Indeed, the news isn’t good for 2022.  More importantly, the longer-run trends – despite a great expansion in auto-enrollment –…

Two investors are working together to analyze a graph

In fiscal year 2022, state and local pension plans have seen the decline in the stock market erase much of the gains from 2021. And, recent media reports by Pensions and Investments, The Wall Street Journal, and others have suggested that alternative investments are one reason why reported returns don’t look even worse. But hav…