Salient to Investors: Paul Zemsky at Voya Investment Mgmt sees a new era of macro policy where the Fed uses new tools to prevent bubbles and raises concerns when markets are away from fundamentals. Alan Gayle at RidgeWorth Investments said the Fed recognizes it needs to broaden its scope of
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Individual investors have added $100 billion to equity mutual funds and ETFs in the past year, 10 times more than the previous 12 months, and vs. outflows of $300 billion in the 5 years through 2012 and inflows of $102 billion in Q1 2000 just before the tech
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Craig Hodges at Hodges Small Cap Fund said any slump in the market will be temporary and a buying opportunity as there is still a lot of money on the sidelines. Hodges is 10 percent in cash, and likes airlines. Greg Taylor at Aurion Capital Mgmt said
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: The median economist predicts GDP will grow 3.1 percent in half2 2014 and 2015 will be the strongest year in a decade. Ethan Harris at Bank of America sees no major headwinds and forecasts 3 percent growth in half2 2014 on fewer government cutbacks, rising auto demand
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: Global debt complacency is evidenced by investor enthusiasm for the debt of Ecuador, Clear Channel Communications, China’s Logan Property Holdings, Greece’s Hellenic Petroleum, Florida’s Orange County Industrial Development Authority. Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund is even considering venturing into junk bonds. Almost any borrower is able to raise
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Karen Umland at the DFA Emerging Markets Small Cap Portfolio Fund is slightly overweight India, and had 15 percent of holdings in Taiwan, over 14 percent in South Korea, over 14 percent in China, and 9.2 percent in Brazil at the end of Q1. Umland dislikes Russia
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Analysts expect earnings to fall this year at Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase et al, but rise 20 percent or more at discount brokers. Chad Morganlander at Stifel, Nicolaus said household investors are getting more confident as their fear thaws out – volatility terrifies retail investors. James Gaul
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Laszlo Birinyi at Birinyi Associates said: Investors and analysts are obsessed with the idea of a correction despite their vain efforts to foretell one. Corrections are event-driven and not organic. Of the 6 bull markets since 1982 – with 14 bull-market corrections – this one has had the most
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: David Weidner writes: Five years into a slow paced economic recovery is good reason to be buying stocks, because rapidly growing economies usually goes belly up as quickly as they rise. The stock market always leads the economy but a 155% rise in the Dow since 2009
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