Salient to Investors: Jordan Wathen at TMFValueMagnet writes: Eyquem found that from 1951 to 2013, the lowest PE decile of stocks compounded annual returns of 16.7% versus 9.3% for the highest decile. Never pile in or out of an investment for the simple fear of falling behind. No one gets fired
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Sarah Ketterer at at Causeway Capital Mgmt said: Buying energy stocks very incrementally as oil prices eventually reach a floor and rise again but no idea when. Looks for companies with tremendous financial strength that can continue to pay dividends. Smart companies will use their balance sheet strength to buy
READ MORE... →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: 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: A Bernstein Research study “Do High R&D Spenders in Tech Generate Stock Outperformance?” found: Over 1, 3, 5, and 10-year periods, the companies with the lowest spending on R&D tended to perform the best on Wall Street. Over the past 5 years, stocks in the biggest R&D
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Corporate activists including Carl Icahn, Bill Ackman and Nelson Peltz targeted 81 US companies with market values exceeding $1 billion between 1/2009 and 12/31/2013, generating a 48% average gain for long-term investors versus 31% for the S&P 500. Read the full article at http://www.bloomberg.com/infographics/2014-03-31/activists-beat-s-p-500-in-48-percent-gain-for-shareholders.html Click here to receive free and
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Convicted felon Sam Antar says stock-picking sets you up as a mark for the unscrupulous because investors live on hope and it is the criminal’s job to take advantage of that hope. Antar said criminals are as short-sighted, if not more so, as the rest of us –
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