…in the three months following elections are, on average, really strong! Again, the returns are not annualized, but the volatility is. Even better, volatility is slightly lower after elections, but…
…Siegal (whom I respect and admire) say that over long-time horizons, the returns on stocks are pretty good. And that’s true: the average 20-year annualized return for the S&P 500…
…it’s innovation, genomics, nanobots, 3D printing, and the like should be small. Indeed, we favor broadly diversified portfolios that include exposure outside the US, across different company sizes, sectors, style…
…in the couch and was signed, in part, with a smiley face. Interestingly, Franklin’s estate was worth $18 million, not including the value of future earnings from her music catalog….
…better than the ETF that shorted stocks, which lost -6.1 percent during that time frame. The short fund is still around, but with $2.4million in it, I doubt it will…
…whole career, it wasn’t true for the Japanese stock market, until now. Last week, the Nikkei 225 price-index crossed a level that it hadn’t seen since 1989. That’s a long,…
As noted above, the March Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation data exceeded expectations. The year-over-year headline rate was expected to be 3.4 percent but was actually 3.5 percent. The core…
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…Now, for reference, I did look at the policy return for a typical 60/40 stock/bond allocation at Acropolis. Of course, client results may vary, this doesn’t account for manager over/under…
…is true for the one-year period, where the auto-correlation is 0.03. For bonds, there is a slightly higher autocorrelation from month-to-month at 0.18. That’s still so low that the information…
