What you did not mention in your list of personal circumstances is an individual's level of comfort with risk (here I use the risk to mean, for FFH, volatility in share price rather than permanent loss of capital). If for personal reasons you feel that you may have to sell in the near future for any reason, then you probably should not be invested in any stocks. Which means if the markets go up, you miss out on return, but if the market falls, you come out ahead. No one on the board can predict the future. But it sounds like you will sleep better with one of these choices than the other.