Salient to Investors: Vanguard attracted a record $24.3 billion from clients in January, mostly into stocks, and more than 40 percent greater than the previous monthly record in January 2012. ICI said US mutual fund inflows are on track for the biggest month on record for deposits in January. IndexUniverse said ETFs attracted
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Joseph Veranth at Dana Investment Advisors sees little change to the strong trend in the US. Patrick Legland at Societe Generale said the S&P 500 is overvalued given the slow economic recovery, and the risk-on mode may end soon with a lack of positive economic data. Investors are
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Stocks in the least-developed markets are producing annual returns at least 7 percent higher than mutual fund managers around the world. Carlos von Hardenberg at Franklin Templeton Investments said their companies are overlooked and under-owned. Sam Vecht at BlackRock Frontiers Investment Trust is much more positive on frontier countries
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Robert Lutts at Cabot Money Mgmt said the economy will be driven by capital being put to work: the glass is definitely more half full than empty. 73 percent of the 254 S&P 500 companies so far reporting have beaten estimates, and 65 percent have beaten sales estimates. Read the
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Alan Gayle at RidgeWorth Capital said investors need to see a bad quarter or two for their bond investments before they move back into stocks. Patrick Maldari at Artio Global Mgmt says bonds, particularly corporates, are still attractive as S&P 500 returns will remain lackluster, while economic growth
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Art Cashin at UBS said if investors don’t jump in based on the bullish market move, then traders will be looking for any trigger and start to worry about the sequester. Hogan said everybody’s looking for something to cause a pull back. Tom Lee at JP Morgan
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Mitch Tuchman at MarketRiders writes: Google Trends shows people are getting interested in stocks again, and the market rally has unleashed media stories about small investors getting back into equities. Stocks were never safe, nor will be. The bond market implies all kinds of risks that most
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Paul Zemsky at ING Investment Mgmt sees much momentum for stocks even after such a good start to the year: earnings are strong, world economies are bottoming and valuations are attractive. EPFR Global report $39 billion moved into equity mutual funds in 2013, more than double the comparable period in
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Timothy Drinkall at Morgan Stanley were overweight in Argentine stocks at the ed of 2012 after avoiding them earlier in the year. Drinkall said valuations are extremely low after government controls on imports and currency markets weakened Argentina’s economy and President Fernandez’s declining popularity has curtailed her ability to implement some of
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: A. Gary Shilling at A. Gary Shilling & Co writes: Investor zeal for yield and disregard for risk favors the junkiest of the junk. When the grand disconnect between investor focus on the immense liquidity created by central banks and weak and weakening global economies becomes unsustainable, probably
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