Notes from McLaren

If you are like most other investors, you want to know what will happen in the upcoming election and what that means for your investments. The short answer is it doesn’t matter so much for your stock portfolio. Throughout most of our history as a nation, stock prices have gone up regardless of whether the Democrats or Republicans control Washington.

The challenge with investing is recognizing a meaningful change in the status quo versus a surprising yet arguably routine change in prices.

Set the record straight when it comes to these four common misunderstandings.