S&P Global Ratings released a report on September 12th 2016 U.S. State Pensions:
Weak Market Returns Will Contribute to Rise in Expense.
To make the test even more stressful, he couples that spending model with
weak market returns.
Not exact matches
While the labor
market has
returned to more normal levels, with the unemployment rate at around 5.1 percent, overall hiring has remained
weak, per the most recent Department of Labor jobs reports.
According to McKinsey, it's not that today's
market is abnormally
weak — but because the period between 1985 and 2014 was simply a «golden era» of investing in which
returns exceeded the 100 - year average.
The considerations behind shifts in these
market return / risk profiles should be clear - the strongest profiles emerge when a significant retreat in valuations is coupled with an early improvement in
market internals; the
weakest profiles emerge when overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions develop or when rich valuations are joined by broadening divergence or deterioration in
market internals.
Depressed interest rates were typically associated with
weak market outcomes over the following decade, largely because investors reacted to depressed interest rates with yield - seeking speculation - driving valuations up and driving subsequent prospective
returns down.
The Swiss stock
market got off to a
weak start Wednesday, after
returning from yesterday's holiday.
High - dividend - paying stocks * have delivered competitive overall
returns by performing reasonably well in strong
markets and outperformed both non-dividend-paying stocks and the S&P 500 ® Index during
weak markets.
The value - conscious, historically - informed, risk - managed, full - cycle discipline of the Funds is intended to achieve long - term investment
returns, while reducing sensitivity to general
market fluctuations in conditions that have historically been associated with
weak or negative
market return / risk profiles.
Notice that the positive relationship between monetary growth and subsequent
market returns (a coefficient about +0.4) is
weaker than the negative relationship -LRB--0.6) that initiated the monetary easing in the first place.
These results suggest that the Bargain Hunter's strategy is one that may reduce
returns in
markets that are rising without providing much additional value in
weak, volatile stock
market environments.
On top of the existing internal problems of «lowflation,» shorthand for ultra-low inflation,
weak demand and anemic credit growth, the deterioration in the external backdrop over much of 2014 — rising geopolitical tensions with Russia, and the slowdown of the Chinese economy and many other emerging
markets — has made a rapid
return to meaningful growth across the eurozone unlikely, in our view, despite some positive signs, including the stabilization of many peripheral economies and the boost in competitiveness from the
weaker euro.
«Whilst in recent weeks we have seen some recovery in the
market, unfortunately, the overall global dairy commodity
markets remain
weaker than last year, which continues to impact on our
returns.
Dividend paying stocks have been very popular with investors in recent years due to
weak returns in the bond
market.
One reason for that is the challenge of getting a decent
return given the stock
market's current gyrations and potentially
weaker - than - normal
returns in the future.
«Overall» is the entire period of equity
market returns encompassing both strong and
weak markets.
High - dividend - paying stocks * have delivered competitive overall
returns by performing reasonably well in strong
markets and outperformed both non-dividend-paying stocks and the S&P 500 ® Index during
weak markets.
But if you are diversified when
markets are
weak, that may help your
return as the
markets recover.
With the
market presently at (normalized) valuations that are associated with poor long - term prospective
returns, with short - term conditions overbought and overbullish, and with intermediate - term conditions characterized by an exhaustion syndrome that has historically produced disproportionately
weak returns over the next few quarters, I do not believe that we are faced with such an opportunity here.
But this formula of stable, ultra-conservative dividend stocks and corporate bonds, bonds that will pay their interest and
return $ 1,000 in principal at maturity no matter what happens in the
market, virtually eliminates the effects of a prolonged
weak market.
They have even less financial firepower than Walmart Troy @
Market History recently posted... High valuations don't guarantee
weak investment
returns
The process by which the fast trend followers profit from the slow trend followers also alters the distribution of
returns experienced by the latter group:
returns during times of positive, negative and
weak trends are different; in ways that we observe in real
markets.
The benefit of having specific sector funds in the portfolio is these sector funds don't always correlate with the broad
market and the
weak correlation usually provides diversity, which in the long run could improve the portfolio's overall
return.
People who believe that they can earn an abnormal
return by researching companies will argue that the
market is
weak form efficient.
Investors Seek Safety in U.S. Dollar after
Weak Housing Report The U.S. Dollar is trading higher at the mid-session as weak U.S. housing data is encouraging investors to dump higher yielding assets and seek safety in the Greenback.This morning, stock market losses are clearly triggering the rapid return to the Dollar as a safe - haven investm
Weak Housing Report The U.S. Dollar is trading higher at the mid-session as
weak U.S. housing data is encouraging investors to dump higher yielding assets and seek safety in the Greenback.This morning, stock market losses are clearly triggering the rapid return to the Dollar as a safe - haven investm
weak U.S. housing data is encouraging investors to dump higher yielding assets and seek safety in the Greenback.This morning, stock
market losses are clearly triggering the rapid
return to the Dollar as a safe - haven investment.
In an article this week, Bloomberg quotes Capstone Investment's founder Paul Britton: «[Risk parity] has been so successful and deserves credit for providing the
returns it's provided, but it's the
weakest hand in the
market.»
Through years of
weak economic growth, up - and - down stock
markets and miserable
returns on cash savings, the housing
market has delivered for Canadians by making them wealthier.
The relationship of yield to the real
return of bonds is much
weaker because the
market - implied inflation rate at the purchase date could be vastly different from realized inflation over the 10 - year horizon.
In the latter case, both the economy and the
market were unarguably
weak in early 2009, but by August, the New Orders Index had ticked above the neutral stance of 50, even with the equity
market's trailing real - price
return down a depressing 22 %.
When I wanted to say is that having REIT in the portfolio can provide better
returns in the long term due to the
weak correlation between real estate and the general
market.
From listening to the news, it's easy to infer that a
weak economy produces poor
market returns, but the last three years have shown it's not that simple.
Although economic activity is likely to remain
weak for a time, the Committee anticipates that policy actions to stabilize financial
markets and institutions, fiscal and monetary stimulus, and
market forces will support a strengthening of economic growth and a gradual
return to higher levels of resource utilization in a context of price stability.
A
weaker global
market after the global financial crisis led to drops in the amounts of steel, clothing and footwear produced in China, some of which has not
returned to pre-crisis levels.
«Most U.S. natural gas basins do not generate sufficient
returns to justify drilling in today's
weak price environment, suggesting that the current growth pace is not sustainable in a
market that is likely to see little near - term demand growth,» investment bank Credit Suisse said in a report earlier this year.
Additionally, having a huge delay in getting over to the American
market, a truly immense amount of writing, and overall graphics that felt dated and didn't really portray that well in still footage, helped contribute to an overall
weak presence in its
return here.
That should make the properties easier to manage and provide healthy
returns for investors at a time when the housing
market remains
weak.
At times when the yield spread was greater than 180 basis points — that is, when REIT dividend yields were extraordinarily low, reflecting REIT stock prices that were especially high relative to their current distributions — REIT performance over the next year tended to be
weak, with total
returns that averaged 6.98 percent and underperformed the broad stock
market by 1.84 percentage points.