Key Takeaways

• Hands-off investors can use a multi-asset investment fund, such as a target-date fund, to gain from volatility without much effort.
• More-involved investors can consider using their cash holdings to maintain their target allocations.
• Volatile markets can provide a good time to make portfolio changes that could bring tax benefits in the future, particularly in your retirement accounts.

Susan Dziubinski: I’m Susan Dziubinski, co-host of The Morning Filter podcast. Investors have certainly experienced a good deal of market volatility this year, and there may be more ahead, but volatility isn’t always a bad thing. In fact, there are ways investors can use volatility to their advantage. How so? Let’s find out from my colleague…