The example above might be best described as an indexed annuity with
average returns during the last decade.
A recent study conducted by April Klein and Emanuel Zur on shareholder activism found that stock prices of companies targeted by activist investors earn 10.2 %
average returns during the period surrounding an activist's ownership disclosure and an additional 11.4 % abnormal return during the following year.
But even using a broader set of periods with poor trailing returns,
the average return during the decade that followed has typically been slightly above average.
The average return during each of these bull markets was 480 percent.
The risk of an investment is quantified by the degree to which the returns of the investment deviate from
the average return during specific periods of time.
Not exact matches
The Nasdaq's moving
average convergence - divergence line fell below zero
during the early February sell - off before
returning to above that level on Feb. 21.
During the 20 - year period ending in 2012, the S&P 500 index
returned an annual
average of 8.21 percent, but the
average person who invested in stock - market mutual funds earned only 4.25 percent.
If you do the calculation that way, DuPont's
average return on its investments
during that time is just over 9 %.
In fact, over the past 35 years, the market has experienced an
average drop of 14 % from high to low
during each calendar year, but still had a positive annual
return more than 80 % of the time.
According to one study I read from research giant Morningstar,
during a period when the stock market
returned 9 % compounded annually, the
average stock investor earned only 3 %.
One study, analyzing data from 1904 to 1974, concluded that the
average return for stocks
during the month of January was five times greater than any other month
during the year, particularly noting this trend existed in small - capitalization stocks.
Meanwhile,
during the same period, the
average annual
return for investment - grade government bonds was 5.72 % for a real rate of
return of 5.72 % — 2.93 % = 2.79 %.
Since its launch in 2005, it has
returned an annualized 9.8 percent, while the broader Standard & Poor's 500 stock index has climbed an
average 6.7 percent per year
during the same time.
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That's twice the
average 74 %
return for those who moved out of stocks and into cash
during the fourth quarter of 2008 or first quarter of 2009.3 More than 25 % of the investors who sold out of stocks
during that downturn never got back into the market — missing out on all of the recovery and gains of the following years.
The stock market, on the other hand, has
returned an
average of over 10 % annually
during the same time period.
It also found that
during the same period, the
average fixed - income investor earned only a 6.08 %
return per year, while the long - term Government Bond Index reaped 11.83 %.
In this example, the «inflation portfolio» improved the
average real
returns of both the conservatively positioned income - oriented retiree's and the young worker's portfolios by 0.7 percentage points per year
during the extremely inflationary period from 1965 to 1980.
During such inflationary periods since the mid-1930s, the magnitude of stock performance on a real (inflation - adjusted) basis has fallen and the real
return of intermediate Treasuries, on
average, has been slightly negative (see chart).
PIMCO's Bill Gross, the big dog in the fixed income space and to whom Gundlach lost the title of Morningstar's Fixed Income Manager of the Decade in 2010, earned an
average of 7.6 %
during the same period in his much larger $ 281 billion PIMCO Total
Return Fund (PTTRX).
When an investment horizon begins at depressed market valuations and ends at elevated market valuations, the total
returns of investors over that horizon are always glorious (for example, the total
return of the S&P 500
averaged nearly 20 % annually
during the 18 - year period between the 1982 low and the 2000 peak).
Diversification strategies appeared to have «worked»
during the golden years of the 1980s and 1990s, simply because US stock markets were
returning 17 % to 18 % every year on
average during those two decades and Stevie Wonder could have pointed to a bunch of stocks from a newspaper listing the components of the US S&P 500
during that period and likely would have fared very well.
During this secular bull market - a term that denotes a bull market lasting many years - the Dow Jones Industrial
Average (DJIA)
averaged 16.8 % annual
returns.
During the actual recessions themselves the total
returns look much worse as they were negative, on
average.
Average returns have been strong
during these periods.
In the prior 27 midterm periods, the S&P 500 has rallied 12 % on
average during the 10 months following the election; the
return jumps to 22 % when the Fed is in the middle of a tightening cycle.
For example, since 1950, the S&P 500 has enjoyed total
returns averaging 33.18 % annually
during periods when the S&P 500 price / peak earnings ratio was below 15 and both 3 - month T - bill yields and 10 - year Treasury yields were below their levels of 6 months earlier.
Fred sent me this link before what seemed like a weekend
during which I could finally relax after months of hard work with our house renovations... 83 % probabilities with an
average positive
return of 60 % vs — 6 %
average negative
return after 12 months!
In it, Piotroski laid out an accounting - based stock - selection / shorting method that produced a 23 percent
average annual back - tested
return from 1976 through 1996 — more than double the S&P 500's gain
during that time.
Whitman created the Third Avenue Value Fund in 1990 and, according to the article,
during his tenure (ending in 2012) the fund earned an
average return of 12 percent (versus 9 percent for the S&P 500).
Although a 6 - percent post-inflation
return sounds pretty decent, according to a study performed by investment research company Morningstar,
during a period of 10 percent (pre-inflation) market
returns, the
average investor actually earned only a 3 percent net investment
return.
But
during this time, the Strategy has compounded at 6.99 % per year on
average, beating the market's 5.12 %
average annual
return by over 30 % annually.
Returns were limited
during the initial phase of a new fund, while improvements were made, but in the longer run the new fund, which would have a longer life than SAF, would target an
average 9 per cent total
return net of fees, he said.
DFS edge: Mike Evans should benefit from the expected
return of Jameis Winston (shoulder, probable), as he's
averaged an additional 1.55 targets per game with Winston under center
during his career.
During his first two years in Evanston, Gissendaner, who's a junior, was a second - string receiver, but he led the Wildcats in punt
returns last season,
averaging 5.6 yards on 10
returns.
«The fact that income growth was relatively limited
during the 2000s also means that the income losses since 2008 have
returned average incomes close to those at the turn of the century — a reverse which is again unprecedented.»
Sanders»
average donation was $ 27, an amount that will allow him to
return to his contributors for more money
during the spring.
On
average, patients receiving the new technique are
returning home within 24 hours, dramatically reducing hospital stay duration and overall associated medical costs usually incurred
during a lengthy admission.
For example, in Cornell's set up, water drawn from Cayuga Lake is between 39 and 41 degrees Fahrenheit, but when it
returns it is slightly warmer,
averaging about 47 degrees F
during the winter and 56 degrees F in the summer.
Among players with three or more concussion signs, 86 percent
returned to play
during the same game after an
average assessment duration of 84 seconds.
Data indicate that
during the 1997 - 98 El Nio the
average sea level rose about eight - tenths of an inch before it
returned to normal levels.
Similarly, the 225i covered up to 50 km of freeway
during the week,
returning a fuel consumption
average of 8.5 L / 100 km.
In a year of testing, our long - term Volt
returned an
average of 35 mpg
during such operation.
The fuel economy champ is the front - wheel - drive and manual gearbox combo, though the (FWD) automatic still
returns an impressive 26 / 32 - mpg
average during city and highway driving.
«Device sales declined
during the fourth quarter due to higher third - party channel partner
returns, lower selling volume and lower
average selling prices,» the bookseller wrote.
Those rankings are essentially unchanged even if we look only at results for the powerful Upmarket cycle that began in March 2009: Pinnacle
returned an
average of 11.4 % annually
during the cycle, with the group's best performance in six of the seven measures above.
The latest DALBAR study shows that, over the 30 years that ended Dec. 31, 2014, the
average equity investor earned 3.79 per cent while the market
returns averaged 11.06 per cent
during the same period.
On the contrary, from 1983 through 2004, inflation
averaged about 3 %, but the nominal annual
return on gold in Canadian dollars
during this period was — 0.3 %.
In contrast to competitors who think that stocks are highly valued, and that
returns over the next 10 years will be about 5 % to 6 % annually, Apruzzese's firm expects
average stock gains of 7 % per annum
during the same period.
As Figure 1 shows, the Bloomberg Barclays US Corporate High Yield Bond Index posted positive
returns during rising - rate periods,
averaging a
return of 8.86 % while the Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index was almost entirely in the red with an
average return of -1.41 %.