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How to Protect Your Investments from a Recession
The trade war shows signs of becoming long term and it is taking its first bite out of Chinese manufacturing. Many economists are predicting a global recession in the coming year and in this interconnected world the USA will not be immune. The question is how to protect your investments from a recession.
How to Protect Your Investments from a Recession
The first choice in protecting your investing capital is to convert to cash or cash equivalents such as we mentioned in our article about how to invest without losing any money. US bank accounts are protected by Federal Deposit Insurance and both US Treasuries and Grade AAA or AA corporate bonds are safe bets. You will have to do with a lower rate of return than in a surging stock market. But, considering that the market will fall during a recession, this is a good way to preserve investment capital until the market stabilizes.
If you are going to stay invested in the stock market you need to look carefully at the intrinsic stock value of each of your investments. For a long term investor committed to staying in the market, the concern is not if your stock falls by twenty percent in the coming year bur rather if it stays there instead of resuming its growth in the years that follow.