Are you a pre-retiree or retiree who’s nervous about the recent stock market volatility? Worried that it might be the start of a stock market crash, as predicted recently by a few pundits?

Unfortunately, “worry” is not a strategy! Instead, you’ll want to plan ahead to survive stock market crashes without knowing when they’ll happen, since experts and personal investors alike generally have a poor track record for predicting when the market will crash. Keep in mind that during a long retirement, it’s inevitable that you’ll experience a few stock market crashes.

Let’s look at four strategies that can give you some peace of mind when the market is crashing. Hopefully they’ll help prevent you from panicking and selling your stock investments when the market is depressed, which history has consistently demonstrated to be a money-losing move.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevevernon/2024/08/07/4-strategies-for-retirees-to-protect-against-stock-market-crashes/?ss=retirement