Salient to Investors: Lee Adler writes: We are in the first leg of a bear market. Markets are neither crazy nor sane, but measure and reflect liquidity. The two official rules are a) the trend is your friend, and b) don’t fight the Fed. Be positive in your coverage of
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Miles Hoffman writes: Expect at least a 20% move down, and a seasonally bearish Fall. Bear markets have two phases, and can move down and up sharply. The first is where the leading sector of the prior bull market goes into a bear market, while other sectors
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Stocks are most useful for long-term goals so it does not make sense to change your investment strategy based on a blip (sic) of market activity. There is absolutely nothing abnormal going on in the market. Research shows that long-term portfolio performance suffers badly by missing just a few days
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jason Zweig of The Intelligent Investor writes: Don’t join any panic. The market can fall by at least 50% but no one can predict when. Studies show that over time, performance chasing reduces returns by an average of 1.5% per annum; a big bite in a market where the long-term inflation-adjusted
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Regular investors, especially those saving for retirement, have an advantage over the professionals because they can afford to be patient and buy extra when stocks drop – “Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful” – Warren Buffett. David Santschi at TrimTabs Investment
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: James O’Shaughnessy of O’Shaughnessy Asset Mgmt said: Fidelity found that their best performing accounts were those of people who forgot they had an account with them. The shorter you hold a stock, the more likely you are to lose money. Barry Ritholtz found that when families fought over inherited
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Robert Shiller at Yale said stocks and bonds are highly priced and may be joined by real estate. Jeremy Siegel at Wharton expects the bull market to continue, possibly reaching Dow 18,000 or higher by the end of 2014. Siegel said bull markets climb the wall of
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Richard Bernstein at Richard Bernstein Advisors found: Over the period from December 31, 1993 to December 31, 2013, the average mutual fund investor underperformed every asset class and category, including cash, except Asian emerging market and Japanese equities. The average investor would have improved performance by simply
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Pundits calling for a huge decline in equities are either the absolutely certain types, who have stuck to their prediction for years, and the less media-savvy academics and heads of research at big investment firms who see a decline but after the market goes higher. The last
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Barry Ritholtz writes: The market’s various new highs are bullish. Corrections are normal so should not be feared: since March 2009, we have had 9 corrections from 6-22 percent. Corrections are impossible to forecast because people are terrible at making predictions and we don’t know what the
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