![]() ![]() Hartford Funds refers to HFD, Lattice, and HFMC, which are not affiliated with any sub-adviser or ALPS. are all SEC registered investment advisers. HFMC, Lattice, Wellington Management, SIMNA, and SIMNA Ltd. (SIMNA Ltd) serves as a secondary sub-adviser to certain funds. Schroder Investment Management North America Ltd. Certain funds are sub-advised by Wellington Management Company LLP and/or Schroder Investment Management North America Inc (SIMNA). Advisory services may be provided by Hartford Funds Management Company, LLC (HFMC) or its wholly owned subsidiary, Lattice Strategies LLC (Lattice). ETFs are distributed by ALPS Distributors, Inc. ![]() Mutual funds are distributed by Hartford Funds Distributors, LLC (HFD), Member FINRA| SIPC. Put another way, stocks have been on the rise 78% of the time. Of the last 94 years of market history, bear markets have comprised only about 21.4 of those years. Bear markets can be painful, but overall, markets are positive a majority of the time.Although it can be difficult to watch your portfolio dip with the market, it’s important to keep in mind that downturns have always been a temporary part of the process. Assuming a 50-year investment horizon, you can expect to live through about 14 bear markets, give or take.3 Bear markets often go hand in hand with a slowing economy, but a declining market doesn’t necessarily mean a recession is looming. There have been 27 bear markets since 1928, but only 15 recessions during that time. A bear market doesn’t necessarily indicate an economic recession.2 In other words, the best way to weather a downturn could be to stay invested since it’s difficult to time the market’s recovery. Market-before it was clear a bull market had begun. Another 36% of the market’s best days took place in the first two months of a bull About 42% of the S&P 500 Index’s strongest days in the last 20 years occurred during a bear market.Since 1945, there have been 15-one about every 5.1 years. Between 19 there were 12 bear markets, or one about every 1.5 years. Bear markets have been less frequent since World War II.Though many consider the bull market that ended in 2020 to be the longest on record, the bull that ran from December 1987 until the dot-com crash in March 2000 is technically the longest (a drop of 19.9% in 1990 nearly derailed that bull, but just missed the bear threshold). Every 3.5 years: That’s the long-term average frequency between bear markets.That’s significantly shorter than the average length of a bull market, which is 965 days or 2.6 years. The average length of a bear market is 289 days, or about 9.6 months. However, there have also been 28 bull markets-and stocks have risen significantly over the long term. There have been 27 bear markets in the S&P 500 Index since 1928. ![]() 1 By contrast, stocks gain 111% on average during a bull market. Stocks lose 35% on average in a bear market.A new bull market begins when the closing price gains 20% from its low. Watch for 20%: Market cycles are measured from peak to trough, so a stock index officially reaches bear territory when the closing price drops at least 20% from its most recent high (whereas a correction is a drop of 10%-19.9%). ![]()
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