Thomas-Brock-5-Why should someone invest in the stock market vs. alternatives
In this video, Thomas Brock explains that while stocks continue to offer the strongest long-term growth potential, the low interest rate environment since the 2008 financial crisis has led many income-focused investors to turn to dividend-paying stocks for both income and growth.
Video Transcript
Stocks offer you the greatest growth potential long term. That holds true today.
Newer assets like cryptocurrencies are yet to prove themselves competitive to stocks. Traditionally, retirement investors would invest in things such as bonds, perhaps annuities, generating income.
However, ever since the great financial recession of two thousand and eight, we've been in a persistently low rate environment. And those investors aren't able to generate as much income. So many of them have been pushed into stocks where they can generate dividend income and participate in the growth potential of those companies, thereby capitalizing on some price appreciation.
