When it comes to investing in the stock market, individual investors continue to have an apathetic (if not loathsome) view.  We’ve written a lot about the negative impact that two 50%+ market declines within 10 years (2001/2002 and 2007-2009) of each other have had on long-term sentiment towards investing in stocks.  Since the end of the financial crisis in 2009, our view has been that it’s going to take decades, not months or years, for individual investors to fully trust the market again.  This view has certainly played out during the current bull market, because over the last seven years we have yet to see any individual investor sentiment readings turn excessively bullish.  Many times in recent years, even as the market traded just a couple percentage points away from all-time highs, we’ve seen investor sentiment readings get nearly as bearish as they were at the lows of the financial crisis.  That’s not supposed to happen.  Historically, investor sentiment has turned extremely…

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