How investors can survive a bear market – The National

How investors can survive a bear market – The National

Bear market talk is back in fashion as inflation rises, stock markets go haywire and the doom-mongers do their best to scare us to death.

This time, it is the turn of British billionaire hedge fund manager Jeremy Grantham, who has made headlines by claiming the US is in the midst of only its fourth super-bubble of the past 100 years and now it is ready to burst.

The other super-bubbles went bust in 1929, 2000 and 2008, and the latest one is following a similar pattern as share prices rise, “flaky” speculative corners of the market crumble and the rot starts to infect the big blue chips, he says.