Why you should invest in long Term Secular Trends During Covid 19?

Hello friends – welcome to another informative podcast by Angel Broking.

COVID 19 has had diametrically different effects on various pools of stock market investors. Some are scared out of their wits and want to pull out all their money and stuff it into a mattress while others want to milk the crisis by buying at rock-bottom rates with the hope of benefitting when stock prices turn around – as they believe will most certainly happen in some time.

Now every expert worth his salt and every investor, big or small, experienced or inexperienced will have a different approach … as we have discussed in most of our podcasts. However, if there is one thing that everyone seems to be agreeing on at the moment – besides the importance of wearing a mask - it is that one should invest for the long term. For instance, there is tremendous hype around investing in video conferencing platforms and in pharma companies involved in developing COVID 19 vaccines or testing kits. But the problem with these seemingly exciting opportunities is that their profitability is hinged on several unanswered questions such as: how long will the world stay in lockdown? Will Work-From-Home become a trend once countries start easing the lockdown? Which company will actually end up coming up with a vaccine? In other words, they look good in the short term but the long term view is … let’s call it cloudy.