A Bear Market Is Coming Eventually. Here's How I'm Preparing My Investments.

Key Points Investors are likely to come out of a bear market in better shape by thinking about how to handle it now instead of later. Preparing a plan for various situations can help you respond to market conditions calmly instead of reactively. Don't move your portfolio to just cash, and position yourself to pick up cheaper stock shares. These 10 stocks could mint the next wave of millionaires › Investors haven't had to deal with much market turmoil over the past several years. The last real "shock" was the 2022 bear market. But even that was a relatively orderly decline, followed by the artificial intelligence (AI) bull market. There was the COVID-19 pandemic crash in the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) .