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More info here:The buy and hold strategy has been prevalent for decades in the area of investing.  This is generally considered to be consistent with a conservative approach to investing.  When coupled with broad diversification one can ride out the storms that come in one's investing life.Individual investors are often stung after violating this principle because of a panicked, emotional decision to sell or buy at exactly the wrong time.  In order to experience success using this strategy, one much experience extreme patience and self control.  Once in a position, constant monitoring of the portfolio performance is paramount.  It is important to make periodic assessments and tweaks to the portfolio if necessary.Buy and hold strategies are not without their downsides.  Though this strategy has performed generally well over time, there have been instances where the strategy failed.  The Dow Jones Industrial Average(commonly known as the Dow) which was established in 1896 by Charles Dow the founder of the Wall Street Journal.  When one evaluates the graphs displaying the Dow's growth since inception it is shown that only twice have there been decades where the Dow had not grown at the end of that same decade.  The 1970's was one and the most recent decade that started with 2000 is the other.  You can see these graphs by clicking here to pull up the Wikipedia online encyclopedia's history of the Dow.Realistically, history is not necessarily indicative of future performance.  Therefore no one can tell you what will happen this decade or the next.  But one thing is for sure, diversification is your best option to survive any storms that may come.  In Ecclesiastes 11:2, Solomon explains his God given wisdom of investing by saying, "Divide your portion into seven, or even to eight, for you do not know what misfortune may occur on the earth."  Mutual Funds are good vehicles to help carry out this financial principle.We use top performing no load mutual funds to fulfill this strategy of money management.  Our clients trust us to make the investment decisions and allocations on their behalf.  They grant us this trust because they know we are committed to staying in touch with their life situation and managing their resources accordingly.  It is with great honor we serve our clients using this strategy.Our clients who use this strategy usually couple it with our Cash Flow Strategy, Capital Preservation Strategy and/or Life Insurance.  If you would like more information on these offerings feel free to contact us at 307-586-5449 or click here.