{"id":9508,"date":"2008-12-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"for-investors-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2008\/for-investors-now-what.html","title":{"rendered":"For investors, now what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis Star Tribune &#8211; Like most market watchers, last year&#8217;s participants in the Star Tribune Investor Roundtable failed to predict that 2008 would be a year of stomach-churning stock market declines, failed financial institutions, multibillion-dollar bailouts and credit markets as frozen as a Minnesota lake in January.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I think everybody in the room knew there was more leverage, more speculation, more betting on the economy, but it amazes me that it got to this level,&quot; said Phil Dow, director of equity strategy at RBC Wealth Management.<\/p>\n<p>But what the group of Twin Cities investment professionals did foresee a year ago was a period of unprecedented stock market volatility. The VIX index, a gauge of market swings, reached a record high this fall. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/business\/36757154.html%3Felr%3DKArks:DCiU1OiP:DiiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis Star Tribune &#8211; Like most market watchers, last year&#8217;s participants in the Star Tribune Investor Roundtable failed to predict that 2008 would be a year of stomach-churning stock market declines, failed financial institutions, multibillion-dollar bailouts and credit markets as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4736,4520,2452,1301,3204,1626,4735,4731,4737,268,4733,4741,4742,4739,4732,4738,4064,4734,4740],"class_list":["post-9508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-churning-stock","tag-credit-markets","tag-equity-strategy","tag-financial-institutions","tag-investment-professionals","tag-leverage","tag-market-swings","tag-minneapolis-star-tribune","tag-minnesota-lake","tag-multibillion-dollar","tag-phil-dow","tag-rbc","tag-speculation","tag-star-tribune","tag-stock-market-volatility","tag-stomach-churning","tag-twin-cities","tag-vix-index","tag-wealth-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}