I wanted to take this opportunity, on behalf of the whole team here at The Motley Fool, to wish all of our members and readers a very Merry Christmas.
There are plenty of other places to go for investment advice. We're humbled that you've chosen us, and take your trust very seriously. We do our very best to continually deserve and repay that trust (and we try to do it without taking ourselves too seriously; having a little fun along the way).
As I write this, fires continue to rage across the country. It'll be a tough Christmas for many who've lost loved ones and who've lost their homes. It'll be a busy and exhausting one for our emergency services, including volunteer firefighters.
Some of them will be hard at work when most of us will be enjoying public holidays. Many will miss out on spending time with family, while they serve our community. We want to acknowledge our fireys, coppers, ambos, doctors, nurses, armed services and everyone else working while we don't have to. Thank you.
Whether or not you celebrate Christmas, we wish you and your families all the best for this festive season, and wish you a safe, prosperous and rewarding 2020.
Fool on!
… And, as has become our tradition, please enjoy a little investing-themed Christmas goodness.
Have Yourself A Foolish Little Christmas
Have yourself a Foolish little Christmas,
Let your heart be light
Though the ASX,
Will plumb new lows and heights
Have yourself a Foolish little Christmas,
Remember every day,
That the market's
Movements they will ebb and sway.
Have yourself a Foolish little Christmas,
It's for you we write,
Thank you for your trust
We hold your interests tight
Have yourself a Foolish little Christmas,
Together day by day
Focused on the long term
That's what lights our way
Here we are as in olden days,
Great and awful days of yore.
Faithful Fools just ignore the fuss,
And stay on the bus, for more
Through the years
We Fools will stay together,
And this is our vow
We'll stay on the straight and narrow anyhow
So have yourself A Foolish little Christmas now.
PS: Sometimes, in this space, I tell you about the investment service I run, and give you a chance to join.
I'll do that again next time.
But this time, I want to acknowledge that for many people, Christmas isn't as joyous as it is for most of us.
Many people will spend Christmas alone. For others it'll be an enormously sad time, as the memory of recent events or absent friends overshadows this usually festive time.
To those people, we want to extend our thoughts and our love. We hope the season will be as bearable as possible, and that the New Year offers hope, however dim it may now seem.
If your Christmas is unlikely to feel merry, we instead offer you this traditional Gaelic blessing:
May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
The rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.
With our Foolish best wishes.
The Motley Fool team.
