Remember,
at the equity peaks in 2000 and 2007, believe it or not even money funds offered more than acceptable rate of return refuge.
Not exact matches
In a study commissioned by leadership consultant Green
Peak Partners, and conducted by Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, researchers looked
at 72 senior executives
at public, venture - backed and private -
equity sponsored companies and found that self - awareness was the biggest predictor of a CEO's overall success.
Home
equity «cash out» loans are soaring again
at what is likely
peak home prices.
Presently, long - term bonds provide nowhere to hide, and median
equity valuations exceed those
at the 2000
peak on price / earnings, price / revenue, and enterprise value / EBITDA.
To put you in the context,
equities had
peaked in December 1961
at 72 on the S&P 500.
I've told you this before, and I'll tell you it, again: If you live an ordinary life expectancy, you will see your entire
equity portfolio decline from
peak - to - rough by 50 percent or more
at least once, possibly thrice or more.
The latest flow - of - funds data from the Federal Reserve confirmed that home -
equity wealth reached a new nominal high this year: $ 13.9 trillion
at mid-2017, $ 0.5 trillion above the 2006
peak and more than double the $ 6.0 trillion amount
at the trough of the Great Recession.
As one might expect, the message of the two charts is consistent — lower levels of total participation
at each iteration
equity peak since May.
And of course, when markets are
at their
peak, as we see today, we're seeing more and more inflows of
equity type mutual funds, and when markets go down, then we see a lot of outflows of
equity type mutual funds, so we're doing the exact opposite of what we should be doing because of the emotion that's involved with our money.
Those debt - financed
equity buybacks have been heaviest
at market
peaks like 1999 - 2000, 2007, and today.
a speculative bubble covering roughly 1995 — 2000 (with a climax on March 10, 2000 with the NASDAQ
peaking at 5132.52 in intraday trading before closing
at 5048.62) during which stock markets in industrialized nations saw their
equity value rise rapidly from growth in the more recent Internet sector and related fields.
If you look
at your trading account
equity curve, you see
peaks and valleys.
Total home
equity in the United States, which was valued
at $ 13 trillion
at its
peak in 2006, had dropped to $ 8.8 trillion by mid-2008 and was still falling in late 2008.
We all think we can avoid losses by (e.g.) selling
equity and buying bonds
at the
peak of the cycle.
Shefali Anand also
at WSJ.com reports that the performance of long - short
equity mutual funds since the market
peak has been disappointing.
Or, to put it another way, it would be a huge mistake to stay 100 % in stocks on the theory that «you can handle it» only to find that the reality of owning an all -
equity portfolio during a market meltdown like the 50 % - plus downturn from late 2007 to early 2009 is more financially and emotionally unsettling than it seemed when stock prices were
at or near a
peak.
A Record Buyout Turns Sour for Investors Struck
at the
peak of the buyout boom five years ago, the $ 45 billion acquisition of the Texas energy giant TXU — the biggest leveraged buyout in history — has been a painful investment for its private
equity owners.
It's also nowhere near the
peak of approximately $ 250 billion seen in 2006 and 2007, according to Keith J. Braddish, managing director
at debt and
equity provider NorthMarq Capital.
At its
peak in 2008, GE Capital Real Estate had $ 91 billion in assets, of which 56 percent was in
equity and 44 percent was in debt.
Last week, Black Knight reported that American homeowners» tappable
equity is
at an all - time high,
at a whopping $ 5.4 trillion and 10 % above the previous
peak in 2005 (with 65 % of all tappable
equity is held by homeowners with credit scores of 760 or higher).
In the fourth quarter of 2009, negative
equity peaked at 26 percent of all residential properties with a mortgage, according to CoreLogic's records.
Nationwide, the average home price is 1 percent higher than it was
at the
peak of 2006, and the average annual
equity gain was $ 14,888 in the third quarter of 2017.