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When are investment losses too much to recover from?

Traditional investing says to “buy and hold forever”, but that advice takes no account of investor goals, specifically time horizons. Goals-based investing gives us some quantitative tools for evaluating the damage done by investment losses and, consequently, the value of paying for portfolio hedges. In this article, we use python to model a framework for thinking about these problems when investors have goals to achieve.