…commercial real estate since the barrier to entry for a diversified portfolio of actual commercial property is very high – and relatively illiquid, especially compared to REITs, which are highly…
…casual glance suggests that small cap stocks are a much better investment. The following chart helps distill the winning and losing periods by comparing how small cap stocks fared compared…
…10-percent on average since 1927, that includes the 90+ percent losses in The Depression and the two 50 percent losses over the last 20-years. Our strategy is picking an allocation…
…investors since the late 1990s tech bubble. Although you can find the same thing if you look at commercial indexes from companies like S&P, Russell and MSCI, the following data…
…four sectors posting double digit revenue growth. The market, however, isn’t rewarding the good earnings data. According to FactSet, companies that have reported upside earnings surprises have seen average price…
…stocks are household names, such as Amazon, Google, and Tesla. Speaking of Google (or, more technically, Alphabet, the parent company), the weighting scheme counts each of Alphabet’s share classes as…
There was fairly downbeat sentiment surrounding commodities and commodity-linked stocks yesterday. The Bloomberg Commodity index hit its lowest level in 16 years, and is close to setting an all-time low…
…commodities from the developed world have demand from commodities exporting countries like Brazil, Russia and South Africa. Interest rate differentials are also lower and could continue to shrink as the…
…is coming in worse than expected, but I suspect that’s because the indexes use all of the forecasts including the pre-revision estimates, which makes the overall number a little stale….
…the yield curve; (3) and changes in bond prices due to future changes in yields. There is no reliable way to predict future changes in yields due to unanticipated future…
