…the racks with lower discounts. Why? Because it affects the item’s value. On a much more sophisticated level, stock values and interest rates have a similar relationship. In a recent…
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Investing Internationally: Countries or Companies?
…comes to evaluating country risk, he differentiates between “continuous risk” and “discrete risk”. The former, he says, speaks to the simpler notion that there is more volatility in developing markets….
Waiting to Exhale: What Lies Ahead After the Brexit Vote?
…on, let’s let the market sort this out.” The issue of low interest rates was another hot button for Arnott. He asserted his belief that it’s “destructive” for central banks…
Investors Not Buying this Bull Market
…Street Journal. Instead, funds are flowing into safer investments. Not so much in the direction of bonds, which are showing paltry returns (the 10-year Treasury bond has hit new lows)…
Asness and Arnott Talk Market Timing, Smart Beta and Behavioral Biases
…us to want less of what has inflicted pain and more of what has given us happiness. You want to buy low and sell high, but we’re not conditioned to.”…
Buy and Hold, Then Hold Some More
…frequently than the S&P. It has also outperformed the other two large-cap value funds that boast as long a history, as well as the four other large-company growth funds. While…
Top Aberdeen Manager Starts at the Top
…Equity (GSXAX), an $817 million fund that Morningstar ranks in the top 1% of small-cap growth funds. Bassett’s philosophy, outlined in a recent Barron’s article, is built around the belief…
Will This Rally Be Different?
…its February low, most still expect another failed attempt at new highs. Paulsen’s guess is that the S&P 500 index will soon inch past historical highs and maybe even rise…
Sam Zell Gives Us The Hard Truths: Growth Realities, Regulations and Interest Rates
…it on the market has very little impact on what I’m going to decide to do.” What he believes is that years of low U.S. interest rates have desensitized the…
Are Stocks Cheap or Expensive?
…CAPE to 15.5-17.3x, suggesting investors could earn 5.25% real return. That’s still well below the 8% pension funds use as a guide, but comfortably above the 10-year Treasury Inflation-Indexed Security…