# Professor Nicholas Economides shares advice for how amateur investors can navigate the market during the coronavirus pandemic

1 Faculty News April 8, 2020 ![Fortune logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031172.jpg?itok=61CxYB-R)>

Excerpt from [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2020/04/08/stock-market-preview-q2-2020/) -- "'Most people don’t have enough expertise in financial markets. It’s not their job,' says [Nicholas Economides](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/nicholas-economides), a professor of economics at NYU Stern School of Business. Add a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic that causes a global crash, and you quickly see armchair 401(k) investors are in over their head in choppy waters."

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