Bull Markets Don’t Last Forever: How Should You Invest?

Bull Markets Don’t Last Forever: How Should You Invest?

This segment of What's Ahead tackles the question of what sensible investors should do now. Stocks keep breaking records, but bull markets don't go on forever. Trying to time the market—going all in or selling everything—is a fool's game. It never works for long. Equities that investors should have plenty of are those that both pay dividends and have a long-term record of boosting their dividends each year. Even though such stocks won't escaping a shellacking in a bear market, they will most likely pay you dividends and even raise them. Remember, the majority of the long-term gains made on stocks come from the receipt and reinvestment of dividends, not from the increase in the stock price itself. Follow me on Send me a secure tip Steve Forbes is Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media. Steve's newest project is the podcast "What's Ahead," where he engages the world's top newsmakers, Steve Forbes is Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media. Steve's newest project is the podcast "What's Ahead," where he engages the world's top newsmakers, politicians and pioneers in business and economics in honest conversations meant to challenge traditional conventions as well as featuring Steve's signature views on the intersection of