Sentences with phrase «asset returns surprised»

Consensus growth expectations caught up to ours and global earnings jumped — but the magnitude of asset returns surprised us.

Not exact matches

Private firms like Amur have proliferated in the past few years, which is hardly a surprise, given that Canada's stubbornly low interest rates have pushed investors into alternative asset classes, and residential real estate has generated stunning returns for investors and homeowners alike.

In the spring of 2001, to the surprise of his colleagues, Seo left his big Wall Street firm and opened a hedge fund — which, he announced, wouldn't charge its investors the standard 2 percent of assets and 20 percent of returns but a lower, flat fee.

This portfolio rebalancing fits with our asset preferences based on our outlook for global growth, even if the fast pace of returns has surprised.

In a really large crisis, the return on risk assets may look decent from ten years before to ten years after, but a lot of people get surprised by their need to draw on those assets at the wrong moment — bad events come in bunches, when the credit cycle goes bust.

A potential surprise: A rally in risk assets prompted by investors shifting out of cash and low - yielding assets in search of higher returns.

By looking at the asset allocation of the portfolio, it doesn't really surprise me why it outperformed the S&P by 18 %: 40 % of the portfolio's assets are invested in Treasury securities, the highest among 8 Lazy Portfolios, with three funds: VFITX (YTD return 11.34 %), VFISX (YTD return 6.27 %) and VIPSX (YTD return -4.14 %).

With high returns on assets and a low P / E it is not surprising that Garmin shows up on Joel Greenblatt's magic formula investing site for the top 30 companies with a market cap over a billion.

As such it is not surprising that bond prices have fallen, which results in higher bond yields, lifting returns for bond purchasers on this very low risk asset class.

Joey Mack will provide some surprising facts about bond market returns, and provide guidance over how investors can participate in the top performing asset classes in Canada.

When actual returns obtained from owning a superior asset class is so poor, it isn't surprising that for most people, their home turns out to be the «best investment».