Buying the dip: Are you missing the opportunity of a lifetime?

This year, markets experienced their fastest crash ever. Most investors started the year being optimistic. However, by mid-February, global equity markets had dropped by over 30%.

In a matter of weeks, two and a half years of equity market gains were erased, volatility rose to unprecedented levels, and markets were contending with intra-day price swings of over 5%. Investors scrambled for the exit, looking for any safe haven they could find, most settled on cash, and as a result over $130bn[1] was withdrawn from capital markets. Now the dust has settled, the question on investors' minds is: when do I buy back in? History teaches us that the strongest equity market rallies often come right after the sharpest falls, and we have just experienced the largest fall sinc...