Markets don’t move in straight lines, yet many portfolios are built as if they do. Investors clutch onto old rules like sacred scrolls, convinced that the same economic patterns from decades ago still dictate the future. Inflation is no longer a predictable ghost from the past, interest rates have learned to dance in ways textbooks didn’t prepare us for, and technology is turning entire industries upside down.
If your investment strategy hasn’t evolved, you might be sailing a ship built for yesterday’s seas into tomorrow’s storm. It’s time to ask the hard question: is your portfolio stuck in the past, and how dangerous could that be?
