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This is part of Seeking Alpha's "Portfolio Positioning 2020" series. What do you expect to be the key driver of stock market performance over the course of 2020? In most years, changes in valuation are the biggest swing factor for equity markets. The full year 2019 was about major valu...
( Photo Source ) U.S. stocks continue to make new records on what seems to be a weekly basis. While valuations appear to be stretched by certain measures, the underlying fundamentals of the economy remain solid. Since the financial crisis of ten years ago, there have been numerous worries th...
This excerpt from my January newsletter discusses relative valuation levels between various asset classes and my general expectations for the next decade, based on available data. The Current Regime Beginning 3-4 months ago, there have been several reversals in the market that continued ov...
The "8% Income Portfolio" continues to perform well during good times and bad. Currently, it provides a 10.80% yield on the cost basis and a 7.02% yield on the current value of the portfolio. During the year 2019, the portfolio has returned more than 30% (26.5% after including cash reserve) ...
The New Year brings new opportunities and risks. Trade deals (or the lack thereof), Federal Reserve rate policy uncertainty, and inevitable drama associated with a Presidential election year may mean you face crosscurrents in 2020, especially given 2019's stellar returns. To help you navigat...
With the new year 2020 just getting started, the financial media tends to provide massive amounts of coverage regarding market predictions from so-called "market gurus". These forecasts attract a lot of attention from investors, after all, we humans have a natural tendency to try to forecast w...
2019: The Year of the Turnaround 2019 turned out to be a great year for investors after the panic selling of late 2018. Pretty much every asset class went up this year, with the S&P 500 ( SPY ) up 31.2 percent including dividends, global equities ( EFA ) up 22.1 percent, aggregate bonds ...
It's been tough-going for international investors. A stronger U.S. economy has led to more investment dollars flowing to U.S. equities than foreign companies, resulting in significant under-performance for foreign issues. For instance, the iShares MSCI EAFE ETF ( EFA ) has lagged the SPDR S&am...
Equities are breaking out around the world despite muted optimism regarding economic growth in 2020. While U.S. stock indexes such as the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrials and Nasdaq Composite are making record highs, other exchange trade funds (ETFs) are merely revisiting prior peaks....
Hindsight is 20-20, as we all know. Look around and forward vision for 2020 is cloudy at best, be it for geopolitics, economies, businesses or markets. Markets might look great having bounced back (through April from the sharp declines end of 2018 and then since October), due to corporate buyb...
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