This may not sound like much, but these low returns may actually be competitive with
expected future returns on some other low risk options as detailed more in Article 6.2.
If CAPE is high due to high future EPS growth expectations or is high due to mechanical imprecision in earnings measurement because past earnings are artificially depressed, and hence less indicative of future cash flows, then a high CAPE ratio is fully compatible with
high expected future returns.
You can find all sorts of predictions of
expected future returns based on various factors, calculations, and models, but unfortunately, most of them point to a rate of return for both stocks and bonds in the next few years that is below historical averages.
Among other measures, they examined the «success rate» (cases where the portfolio did not run out of money) for
different expected future return scenarios assuming 4 % of the portfolio value (inflation adjusted) is withdrawn annually for 30 years.
There are many ways of
evaluating expected future returns and determining price relative to value, as we discussed in «Selecting a Valuation Method to Determine a Stock's Worth» (April 2014 AAII Journal).
Or if he would sell Coke to redeploy the proceeds into something with
higher expected future returns that would trigger paying the defered tax liability and therefore lower IV which doesn't make much sense either.
I might be wrong, but as far as I am aware, there's no consensus on the Fed's model used to calculate the «
expected future return of stocks,» which is why Hussman calculates it twice using two different metrics, and Duarte and Rosa use the average of 29.
We expect future returns to look different from the past, partly due to structurally lower interest rates.
Over the years, I've emphasized what I call the Iron Law of Valuation: the every security is a claim on an expected stream of future cash flows, and given that expected stream of future cash flows, the current price of the security moves opposite to
the expected future return on that security.
Notice that the point where a security seems most enticing on the basis of realized past returns is also the point where the security is least promising on the basis of
expected future returns.
As the price goes up, what investors considered «
expected future return» only a moment before is suddenly converted into «realized past return.»
The CAPE is a tool to estimate
our expected future returns from equities.
Taking on more equity risk when
the expected future returns are lower than in the past and downside risks higher makes little sense to me.
However, finance models suggest the sum of of these two percentages to be
your expected future return on investment.
We expect future returns to look different from the past, partly due to structurally lower interest rates.
If history is any guide, investors should
expect future returns to be muted at best.
So, while it feels good to see stock prices of existing positions go up,
the expected future returns decline.
I need to point out that the compound annual growth rate of 10.34 % in the historical data is not a number you should use for
expected future returns.
The truth is, market risks and
expected future returns are related.
After looking at this stock's valuation, yield, growth rate and
expected future returns I feel confident that I'll be able to better allocate my capital.
However, finance models suggest the sum of of these two percentages to be
your expected future return on investment.
The basic conclusion is that
the expected future return from stocks is inversely related to the average investor stock allocation.
We can start to see why Bernstein predicts a -1 % return on bonds over the next 10 years as discussed in the «
Expected future returns» subsection above.
Our conclusions about «what to invest in» based on a mindful assessment of historical and
expected future returns and risks in
Are based on historical performance characteristics, which include
the expected future return, the expected future volatility (risk) of the return, and how the returns of assets classes perform relative to each other.
Our conclusions about «what to invest in» based on a mindful assessment of historical and
expected future returns and risks in Articles 6.1 and 6.2 include:
-- As I already mentioned,
the expected future return on bonds is likely to be minimal at best, with the central tendency estimate at perhaps 2 % before inflation, and zero or less after inflation.
The lower the valuation the higher
the expected future return (lower risk).
The higher the valuation the lower
the expected future return (higher risk).
That results in shifting
your expected future returns up by around 5 % per year compared to his!
It appears that John's algorithm takes into account the rise in the market during the 2005 - 2008 timeframe, and yours does not (as you stated, all else remaining the same, the higher the market is at any given point, the lower
the expected future returns that can be for an economy).
«The equity risk premium is
the expected future return of stocks minus the risk - free rate over some investment horizon.
Because GRN's a good example of a mistake too many investors make: No matter how confident you might be about a company's prospects, overpaying doesn't just reduce or even eliminate your margin of safety, it may also rob you of
expected future returns.
When everyone is happy
they expect future returns to be high and so they are willing to get fewer returns on their money today in order to buy into those greater returns tomorrow.