07/30/2026
๐ช๐ถ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ด
Written by Patrick Dinan, CFPยฎ, CSRICยฎ
"Winter is Coming" is the tagline from one of my favorite shows of the past decade, Game of Thrones, and it's a good metaphor for market corrections. If a downturn is at least partially expected, it tends to hurt less when it finally arrives.
As a participant in the market, it is always wise to mentally prepare yourself for โwinterโ or a bear market defined as a 20% decline or more at any point. These moves tend to happen once every four years on average while 10% corrections happen almost every year.
How is Impact Fiduciary positioned? We are focusing on what has worked historically, which is not trying to guess what's going to happen in the short run. Instead, we're sticking to a sustainable, diversified, and well-thought-out approach that gives us exposure to all segments of the publicly traded market globally.
One of the biggest threats that may not be fully priced in yet is inflation. High oil prices tend to feed into inflation with a lag of a few months. The market hates inflation because it forces the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates, making borrowing more expensive across the board. Unfortunately, the economy isn't yet decoupled from its dependence on fossil fuels, even though cleaner alternatives are increasingly abundant. That's just the world that we live in right now.
๐๐ช๐ด๐ค๐ญ๐ข๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ: ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ท๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ญ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ. ๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ข๐ญ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ต๐ถ๐ต๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ข๐น ๐ข๐ฅ๐ท๐ช๐ค๐ฆ, ๐ข ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ณ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ด๐ข๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ค๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐บ, ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ข๐ฅ๐ท๐ช๐ด๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ๐ท๐ช๐ค๐ฆ๐ด. ๐ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด๐ถ๐ญ๐ต ๐ข ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ญ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐ข๐ค๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ข๐ฏ๐ต, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ/๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐จ๐ข๐ญ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ท๐ช๐ค๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ค๐ช๐ง๐ช๐ค ๐ต๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ด๐ช๐ต๐ถ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ. ๐๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ข๐ญ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฃ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ธ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ช๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐๐ข๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ฌ ๐๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ฏ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฅ.