Salient to Investors: Louis Navellier looks for stocks with strong fundamentals, including sales growth, earnings growth with smart leadership, and with strong buying pressure. For the complete list go to http://navelliergrowth.investorplace.com/free-report/top50stocks/index.html?atg_sid=IZ8547&atg_sid_pay=UK8527&en=4434405
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Amateur investors are giving up on trying to beat the market, while even the most sophisticated investors are rejecting strategies that require advanced math and managers with million-dollar salaries. ICI reports the average expense ratio on an equity mutual fund is down 25% in 10 years. Boston Consulting
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: P/E ratios among the 50 largest companies in the S&P 500 Index deviate from the mean by an average 22%, nearly the lowest on record since 1990. An average of 380 Index companies rose in each of the last 5 years, versus 307 in the 1990s. In 2007,
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: Steven Spielberg’s Wunderkinder Foundation lost an undisclosed amount – in 2006, about 70 percent of its interest and dividend income came from the Madoff firm. Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick lost an undisclosed amount. Elie Wiesel’s Foundation for Humanity lost substantially all of its assets, $15.2 million. Sandy Koufax and
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: John Rekenthaler at Morningstar said: Over the trailing 12 months, 68% of net sales to mutual funds ended up in passive investing vehicles versus 32% active. Of $134 billion going into active funds, $30 billion is being placed in target-date funds. Low-cost, passive funds keep more 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: Mitch Tuchman at Rebalance IRA writes: The best strategy for a retirement investor with a 5 to 25 year time horizon in a tax-deferred account uses low-cost index funds allocated across multiple asset classes and re-balanced at least annually. Re-balancing – the discipline to sell assets that
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: The Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies said millennials – born from 1979 to 1996 – began saving for retirement at a median age of 22, versus 27 for Generation X and 35 for baby boomers. 71% of millennials offered 401(k) or similar plans contributed a median 8%
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