Over a 10 - year period, The Lipper Company found that
the average stock fund surrendered approximately 23.5 % of its load - adjusted return to taxes.
But once you add in fees (
the average stock fund had an expense ratio of 1.19 % in 2014, according to Morningstar's 2015 Fee Study, vs. 0.17 % for an S&P 500 index fund offered by Vanguard), and consider the unpredictability of the market and other quirks of the money - management business, such as how index gains are calculated, it's not that easy for portfolio managers to consistently outpace passive funds.
Unsurprisingly, then, it appears that
the average stock fund earns the stock market's present dividend yield of 1.8 percent and then consumes fully 80 percent of that yield in fees and expenses.
Vanguard
average stock fund expense ratio: 0.11 %; industry
average stock fund expense ratio: 0.70 %.
Dalbar Inc., a consulting company, found that during the 16 - year period through 2000,
the average stock fund returned 14 percent.
A low or below average risk bond fund, as an example, can not be assessed the same as below
average stock fund.
Not exact matches
Over the past decade, public
stock markets have outperformed the
average venture capital
fund and for 15 years, VC
funds have failed to return to investors the significant amounts of cash invested, despite high - profile successes, including Google, Groupon and LinkedIn.
Meanwhile, hedge
funds, which generally invest in
stocks, gained an
average of 0.4 % over the same period.
World
stocks rose 20 percent last year, significantly outpacing the
average on bond markets, meaning the relative value of
funds» equity holdings has increased without a single new share being bought.
American mutual
fund investors have an
average of around 25 % of their portfolios in non-U.S.
stocks.
On behalf of its clients, some of BlackRock's mutual
funds, on
average, hold
stocks for less than a year.
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.
Professional traders have used leveraged money from brokers and lenders to invest in exchange - traded
funds and other
stocks for decades, but this tactic can be ruinous for the
average individual investor who is not careful, say investment and finance experts.
In early March, Coinbase also released a weighted index
fund that will give accredited U.S. investors exposure to all the assets listed in its GDAX exchange, similar to how the Dow Jones industrial
average's 30
stocks attempt to reflect the U.S. economy.
The
stocks that hedge
funds have largely ignored tend to be much larger than the hotels, have less debt, grow earnings more slowly but consistently, and pay bigger dividends (an
average yield of nearly 3 % for the S&P 500 constituents, compared with 2 % for the index overall).
In August, the investment firm Richard Bernstein Advisors compared the performance of the
average investor — based on the monthly flows of money in and out of mutual
funds — against a variety of
stock indexes, commodities and other asset classes over a 20 - year period ending Dec. 31, 2013.
And year - to - date, EPRO is down 2.6 percent, while the
average world
stock fund is down by more than 8 percent.
On the positive side, Millennials do tend to invest — but, according to a survey from AMG
Funds,
stocks make up only 30 percent of the
average Millennial's portfolio.
The
average investor has no business buying leveraged exchange traded
funds, shorting
stock, or speculating with derivatives such as
stock options.
Estimated annual
fund expenses as a percentage of the
average net assets attributable to common
stock are 5.9 %.
Using factor data from Dimensional
Fund Advisors (DFA), for the 10 years from 2007 through 2017, the value premium (the annual
average difference in returns between value
stocks and growth
stocks) was -2.3 %.
Since banks, mutual
funds, hedge
funds, pension
funds, and other institutions control more than 50 % of the market's
average daily volume, the direction of the
stock market nearly always follows the institutional money flow.
Anticipating the 2000
stock market bust and 2007 credit bust, Rodriguez maintained cash levels
averaging more than 25 % in his FPA Capital
Fund and peaking at 45 % in 2007, compared to 1 % to 3 % levels in the 14 years in investment management leading up to 1998.
Studies have consistently shown that the returns achieved by the
average stock or bond
fund investor have lagged the reported returns of the
average stock or bond index, often by a large margin.
The iShares Transportation
Average ETF (CBOE: IYT), the largest exchange - traded
fund dedicated to transportation
stocks, is lower by almost 3 percent this year, but some analysts believe the sector can rebound.
These returns are in line with 8 % ROIC earned by Financial Select Sector SPDR
Fund (XLF) holdings and slightly below above the 9 %
average for 465 Financials
stocks under coverage.
The after - tax proceeds from those sources would be worth $ 547 million if he invested the money in a blend of
stocks, bonds, hedge
funds, commodities and cash, assuming a weighted
average annual return of 7 percent over the past 15 years, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Fidelity research has also shown that picking low - cost
funds is one way to improve
average historical results of large - cap
stock funds relative to comparable index
funds.
Big - money players such as banks, mutual
funds, hedge
funds, and other institutions are also more confident buying
stocks when the S&P, Dow, and NASDAQ are all above their 50 - day moving
averages.
If you're an
average retail investor just looking for some low - cost index
funds, you don't need to spend your day glued to the
stock ticker.
Last year was an exceptional one, and emerging - market
stock funds returned an
average of 34 percent.
The return on invested capital (ROIC) for JETS» holdings is 8 %, which is comparable to 9 % for the holdings of the Industrial Select Sector SPDR
Fund (XLI) and well above the
average of 5 % for 405 Industrials
stocks under coverage.
With the mean time from
funding to exit for a startup increasing from 2 - 5 years in the early 2000s to an
average of 6 - 10 years today, an employee may hold illiquid
stock for quite some time while undergoing major life events such as marriage, birth of a child, home purchase, or graduate education.
Valuation Price - to - Cash Flow: Price - to - cash - flow (P / C) ratio is the
average price to cash flow ratio of the individual
stocks within a
fund.
For investors, 2014 was the sixth consecutive year that hedge
funds have fallen short of
stock market performance, returning only 3 percent on
average.
Though past performance does not ensure future returns, the
Fund's
stock selections have strongly outperformed the major indices since inception, and my objective and expectation is to achieve that result, on
average, in the future.
For example, over the 10 years ended December 31, 2012, the tax - managed large cap core
stock funds returned an annual
average of 5.82 percent after taxes.
In hindsight, the 8996
stock funds tracked by Lipper
averaged a 13.3 % loss during 2001, after losing ground in 2000 as well, while we gained.
Rather than try to pick out individual
stocks, he said it makes more sense for the
average investor to buy all of the companies of the S&P 500 at the low cost an index
fund offers.
** For the 10 - year period ended March 31, 2018, 9 of 9 Vanguard money market
funds, 55 of 60 Vanguard bond
funds, 20 of 22 Vanguard balanced
funds, and 133 of 142 Vanguard
stock funds — for a total of 217 of 233 Vanguard
funds — outperformed their Lipper peer - group
average.
For more than a decade the
stock markets have outperformed most of them, and since 1999 VC
funds on
average have barely broken even.
Data to November 2017 for two
funds managed by BlackRock shows the growth rate of earnings at growth
stock companies
averages 14.5 % a year.
You will receive dividends on the
stock you buy with the dividends received, and over time your
fund value will grow way above the
average of an investor who does not do likewise.
One in six institutional investors, in another survey, projected gains of more than 20 % annually on their investments in venture capital — even though such
funds, on
average, have underperformed the
stock market for much of the 2000s.
Average holding periods of
stock in mutual
funds is under 11 months and the SPY turns over its assets once a week (investment periods which are too short for fundamental oriented investment returns to manifest themselves).
Instead, they owned highly selective portfolios, mostly 34
stocks or less, vs. the 160 in the
average equity
fund.
Your
average investor pictures
stock - based (or equity) mutual
funds when they think of the term.
Exhibit 2 depicts the
average holding periods of investment managers of
stocks in equity mutual
funds.
Against the
average investor return of just 2.6 % annually over the ten years through 2013, I would be happy with the dividend
fund if it just made the same return as the general
stock market.
Last year, the
average stock mutual
fund kept $ 59 of every $ 10,000 invested, down from $ 63 the year before, according to the Investment Company Institute, an industry trade group.