SquirrelSave - Looking Ahead as we begin 2022

Jan 8, 2022

Hey! We’ve been here before!

It’s barely one week into 2022, and we get so many worried questions…

Is the market going to crash again like when Covid caused global panic in Feb 2020? Will the USA Federal Reserve move to start increasing interest rates crash the markets? You get the picture.

Frankly, as human emotions weigh heavily, this is quite expected. Experience shows that “GREED” and “FEAR” are primal drivers of human behaviour in investment cycles. Can we learn the lessons based on objectivity or do we recall the events with emotions? The truth is that the data is now available for AI to make sense of. So why not do so at SquirrelSave?

SquirrelSave removes human emotions in investing…

If we remove emotions, and focus on data, the situation becomes more objective. Using data analytics, SquirrelSave AI looks at statistical probabilities of investment factors and how they tend to behave as a complex system. Before we give you a mathematical headache, read our simplified whitepaper on our investment approach called “FAME” if you wish to.

Let’s make objective sense of what we fear…

SquirrelSave uses machine learning to analyse past investment cycles and learns from the experience. When SquirrelSave went live in late 2019, we did not know that Covid was already lurking in the dark, ready to test human emotions and investments in the months ahead.

At that time, SquirrelSave was designing portfolios with a large allocation to alternatives such as Gold. We noted this as in our human professional investment experience, we hardly ever invested in Gold. But here, SquirrelSave did.

Little did we know then what SquirrelSave was able to do. We only found out more when Covid caused investment markets to tank in Feb/Mar 2020 – barely 6 months after SquirrelSave was soft launched.

How did SquirrelSave do in the Covid Crash of Feb/Mar 2020?

In short, our SquirrelSave reference portfolio did very well compared to the market. SquirrelSave was able to manage the downside well and recovered very quickly with the overall returns better than the general market. For more details, read our blog “How My SquirrelSave Portfolio Behaved Through the Covid-19 March 2020 Market Crash”.

Looking ahead into 2022…

We believe that SquirrelSave will continue to remain unemotional and deal with the data as it comes. That our SquirrelSave AI by design – to dynamically predict probable returns with a focus on narrowing the predicted volatility based on the risk setting you choose. Our SquirrelSave will then make adjustments to your personalised portfolio to reduce the volatility for the highest probable returns. You can read about our one-year Return to Volatility measures in our blog, “SquirrelSave Full Year 2021 Performance +14% to +25%”.

Investment Outlook for 2022…

As we had shared in our blog, “SquirrelSave Investment Outlook 2022”, we need to watch 3 factors, namely:

1. US Federal Reserve Taper
2. Global Supply Chain Bottlenecks
3. China’s Economic Performance

The USA Fed moves to raise rates are expected, but the exact timing, size and speed are subject to short term speculation which in turn, causes volatility. SquirrelSave does not look at short term fluctuations. Depending on your time horizon, SquirrelSave considers how different data factors behave over different time periods and in different risk environments to arrive at probabilities of simply “risk versus return”. This is humanly impossible to do.

Smart Investing with SquirrelSave AI

The SquirrelSave investing lessons are essentially:

1. Understand your own investment risk profile – which includes your risk of loss tolerance and capacity to take on risk, versus your time horizon and age,
2. Remove human emotions when investing and stay invested.
3. Invest early to capture the power of compounding and get a longer runway to absorb the inevitable market volatility.

Invest Smarter! Sign-up at www.squirrelsave.com.sg today!

Regards
Your SquirrelSave AI Team

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