Managing Trump-related fears in your investments

IN the coming days and weeks, any tumult in the markets will probably be about a lot more than the companies we invest in.

We can never know for sure why the stock markets move as they do. But we can probably attribute any decline as these weeks of transition unfold as much to worries about how Donald Trump will conduct himself on the world stage as to concerns about how his economic policies will affect the profits of the corporations that make up those markets.

If a majority of your retirement savings is in stocks, however, you don't care what the reason is. For many people, the temptation is to get out of the markets. And among some people whom Mr Trump targeted with barbs and insults, there is palpable concern about much more than investments.