{"id":291,"date":"2026-04-17T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T09:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevinmurray.co.za\/?p=291"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:28:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:28:34","slug":"investing-through-turbulent-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinmurray.co.za\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"Investing Through Turbulent Times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"851\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinmurray.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Investing-Through-Turbulent-Times.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinmurray.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Investing-Through-Turbulent-Times.png 851w, https:\/\/kevinmurray.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Investing-Through-Turbulent-Times-300x111.png 300w, https:\/\/kevinmurray.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Investing-Through-Turbulent-Times-768x284.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For those of you who looked at your investment values at the end of March and didn\u2019t like the returns for the end of the first quarter of this year, since then, many values have already increased again. Anything between 4 and 6-odd percent in two weeks. Values are not yet back to \u2018pre-war\u2019 numbers, but nothing we can control. The ups and the downs in the Middle East are not over. Mind you\u2026.. they\u2019ve been there for thousands of years.<br>I ran the numbers for one client, showing how his additional investment that went in, in late March, bought more assets for him because of values being down than it would have bought for him if values hadn\u2019t been down. More assets means you own more units in the fund; not that your investment is worth more. I said to the client: \u2018you bought 103,500 units, instead of 95,840 units at the last pre-war price. I would rather have 103,000 assets than 95,000 assets.\u2019 This is what times of depressed values bring to your money going in. We need them.<br>Anyway, at least the other side of the moon was quiet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover how short\u2011term market dips can create long\u2011term advantages for investors. Learn why buying during periods of uncertainty can increase your asset holdings and strengthen your portfolio resilience, even amid global instability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"Discover how short\u2011term market dips can create long\u2011term advantages for investors. Learn why buying during periods of uncertainty can increase your asset holdings and strengthen your portfolio resilience, even amid global instability.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"Investing Through Turbulent Times: Finding Opportunity in Market Volatility","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[35,32,33,34],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-thoughts","tag-invest","tag-investing","tag-market-volatility","tag-turbulent-times"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinmurray.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinmurray.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinmurray.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinmurray.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinmurray.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinmurray.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/kevinmurray.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinmurray.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinmurray.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinmurray.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}