So before you make any big changes to your portfolio, follow this fear to its logical conclusion.
He planned to make few, if any, changes to the portfolio and would not even stick around the office to see how things turned out.
FIND YOUR RISK TOLERANCE If the latest market dive tempted you to make major changes to your portfolio, it is time for a gut check.
Starting late last year, however, Mr. Okudaira made drastic changes to his portfolio, putting $50,000 into mutual funds focusing on stocks in China and other emerging economies.
Susan Dziubinski, who edits Morningstar Fund Investor, also plans no changes to her portfolio, even though she came in last with a quarterly loss of 4.07percentt.
The UK's second-largest regional publisher, which under new chief executive Ashley Highfield is making sweeping cuts and changes to its portfolio, saw a £16.5m pre tax profit in 2010 fall to a £143.8m loss last year.
Close to half say that they need to make significant changes to their portfolio of partners in multiple areas of their business, swapping out between 25percentand50percentcent of these relationships, and another 9percentt say they're rethinking just about everything.
Blooom then recommends changes to the portfolio.
Giles Neville, a director of emerging-market equity investing at Schroders in London, isn't making any big changes to his portfolio.
Ken Kam: You are up over 36% year-to-date, are you making any changes to the portfolio at this point?
Public pension funds, by their nature and mandate are not typically designed to make dramatic changes to their portfolio or to 'dabble' in something just because it seems interesting.
