Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results: An Investing Lesson from the Ryder Cup

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Sinopsis

For the second time in the last month, Nate and Keith are together in the booth to draw parallels between the game of golf and investing. With the Ryder Cup in Wisconsin, and after a year of waiting because of the pandemic, golf was certainly top of mind for many across the state, and the country, in the last week. And while Europe has dominated the U.S. as of late in the Ryder Cup, it was the Americans that came out on top this time through.  For Nate and Keith, this was almost too easy of an analogy tied to the old adage of investing: Past performance is not indicative of future results. Not only does that comparison hold up on the surface, but it also goes deeper to how each of the respective teams was structured – with Europe electing for the tried and tested players and the U.S. going for selections that could be considered more of emerging market-type picks. Nate and Keith launch into the subject and cover lots of the course when it comes to investing, guarding against risk, and avoiding the l