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While small caps and value stocks have benefitted from a changing paradigm in the U.S., developed market small-cap value stocks have not been left behind either. While the magnitude of outperformance has certainly been more pronounced in the U.S., developed small-cap value has doubled...
Value names remain attractively positioned to benefit from the ongoing macroeconomic recovery and positive outlook. Importantly, the growth-to-value rotation remains in early stages relative to historical cycles. The construction of the S-Network Sector Dividend Dogs Index (SDOGX) all...
The S&P 500 Growth Index won the early stages of the "COVID-19 recovery" rally, rising 56.6% through August 4, 2020. Value struggled to keep up, running 38.4% higher. From the bond market's August extreme through March 30, 2021, the S&P 500 Value Index has rallied 27.8%, trudg...
Stocks haven't made a lot of headway since the February peak despite a lot of volatility. But Powell's promise of continued "easy money" certainly didn't hurt. The question that financial markets wanted answering was just how much of a decline in asset prices the Fed will tolerate bef...
So far, 2021 isn’t looking too different from where we ended 2020. But we see the second quarter bringing greater economic re-awakening, underpinning our constructive outlook for U.S. stocks. While future rate-related panics are likely, we expect rates to remain low for some ti...
Even as we see US rates making an orderly retracement away from record lows, we are struck by the angst this is causing many investors. In our view, rising interest rates should not of themselves be a cause for alarm. For equity investors, and especially those investing in value secto...
Last week, the latest US fiscal stimulus was signed into law, delivering $1.9 trillion of aid to a wide range of people and groups, as well as other non-COVID related spending. We know from the prior two COVID aid bills that direct aid can make a substantial economic impact. While...
After being ignored for 13 years, value sectors such as financials, materials, energy and industrials are back and we believe economic acceleration and rising rates set the stage for a multiyear recovery. Interest rates also matter in the tussle between growth and value stocks, becaus...
In the early 1720s, exactly 300 years ago, all of England was overtaken by a surge of stock market speculation which we now know as the “South Sea Bubble”. Our belief is that all this speculation will end badly, as has been the case with all speculative bubbles, most rec...
For US Treasury investors, the starting place for inflation today is tough-there's not enough inflation-adjusted yield to cushion the pain. Treasury inflation-protected securities and similar inflation-linked bonds globally will outperform comparable-maturity Treasury bonds if inflati...