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Colonel Sanjeev Govila (retd) is the founder of Hum Fauji Initiatives, a financial planning company dedicated to the armed forces personnel and their families.
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What happens when the market falls midway while you have invested for a longer term?

Ans: Two points from me since this will happen very frequently when you’re invested for the long run:-

1. This is how the markets behave – if they were not to have volatility, they would give FD-type returns only. Note that I call it volatile behaviour and not risky behaviour.
2. Do not change your character just because markets are volatile – do not turn into a short term investor when markets go down. You should take out any investments only if either your goal for which that investment had been done has arrived or if that investment is no longer a good one to continue and you wish to shift to another better one.

I get excited when markets fall, rather than when they go up, because a fall gives me more opportunities to acquire good securities at low rates.
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