Article July 29, 2002 Issue

A SPIRITUAL VIEW OF MARKETS IN TURMOIL

Christine Negley

It's a bleak time in the investment business. The phones aren't ringing much, we're not getting walk-inbusiness, and clients are complaining about performance. One client called me to say she'd heard that Kansas might soon experience another Dust Bowl, like the one during the Depression of the 1930s, and maybe she should liquidate her investments.

Yet people sometimes feel they've lost something when in fact they've never lost anything good. They haven't lost God, or their relationship to Him/Her, or their own value as a spiritual creation. The things we really value are always intact.

I've been an investment broker for over 20 years. It can shake your confidence when you learn that securities analysts have provided tainted information. There's a constant demand to discern the line between truth and deception—whether it's in a researcher's analysis of a company's future performance, a corporate annual report, or a news story on market trends.

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