The fund's
focus on growth tends to make it somewhat riskier at times, resulting in wider swings in performance.
Not exact matches
The CEOs
tend to be unassuming folk who ignore management trends to concentrate
on the nuts and bolts of running a business —
focusing on earnings per share instead of worrying about top - line
growth, for example, and working to preserve cash flow instead of increasing earnings to build shareholder value.
But those landmark reports
tended to
focus on precise policy challenges, and Dodge says, by comparison, Barton's economic
growth mandate is «pretty amorphous stuff.»
Management
tends to
focus on growth, adding employees and building the company rapidly, but this can end up slowing things down over time.
Notice that these solutions
tend to promote
growth in your team, decentralization, delegation, and
focusing on your local business — changes that help most organization.
Modern venture capital (VC) firms
tend to
focus on young, high -
growth companies — typically tech startups.
Small - cap companies usually
focus on one or two
growth prospects and maximize those opportunities, whereas small - cap stocks
tend to be centered
on products involving innovative technologies.
We're going to let you in
on a little secret: Investors
focused on economic
growth are wasting their time... If anything, the evidence suggests a negative correlation between equity returns and GDP
growth... It may be that the best prices can be had in times of low economic
growth, whereas we
tend to overpay in a growing economy.
«Even our religious culture
tends to
focus on success and stability as ideals for religious
growth.»
Neuroscience companies that started in the»80s
tended to
focus on particular neurotrophic or
growth factors, he says, and were little better than shots in the dark.
Plus, the
focus on educator evaluation
tended to overshadow a critical part of improvement: educator engagement and
growth.
Growth inves - tors also
tend to
focus on price momentum.
For my money I
tend to
focus on a solid history of paying dividends, a decent yield that is also sustainable and long term
growth potential.
Most emerging - markets funds
tend to
focus on countries in Asia and Latin America rather than
on emerging markets in the Middle East, Africa, and Europe (although this is slowly changing and is likely to change further as Africa's demographics point to increased
growth in a decade or two).
Whether investing in mutual funds or stocks,
growth investors
tend to
focus on investments that they plan to hold for months if not years.
Which is, admittedly, somewhat bizarre... as most bullish investors will
tend to
focus on buying large cap and / or small speculative
growth stocks instead!
And so, accordingly, it
tends to attract pretty dissimilar investor constituencies, who may only
focus on: i) a handful of the largest caps, regardless of valuation & exposure, ii) stocks which (may) offer cheap / alternative access to overseas
growth (a surprisingly large number of Irish companies are UK / Europe / globally
focused), iii) stocks offering domestic exposure (notably, economic pure - plays are actually pretty rare), iv) a listed commercial & residential property sector that's only emerged in the past couple of years, and finally (& perhaps most notoriously) v) a (junior) resource stock sector that's been decimated in the last few years.
I'm going to
focus on the US here: i) because it's the
growth - engine of the world, and ii) where the US goes, much of the world
tends to follow.
The following funds
focus primarily
on large - cap
growth stocks, which
tend to outperform the market in the later stages of a bull market...
Now, if we
focus instead
on small value companies — so again,
focusing on value as opposed to
growth, but also adding in the fact that small companies
tend to do better than larger companies, our $ 100 over that same timeframe would have turned into $ 7.8 million.5 More than 12 times as much money by
focusing on smaller companies and value - oriented companies.
In general, approaches that
focus on value
tend to have less portfolio turnover compared to
growth or momentum approaches.
Value funds
tend to
focus on safety rather than
growth, and often choose investments providing dividends as well as capital appreciation.
In addition, mutual life insurance companies
tend to
focus on long - term
growth and stability.
I find the
focus on tree rings disturbing, because while they will show the annual variation in temperature they will
tend to minimize the centuries - long variations, This got me thinking: Could it be that three ring
growth as climate proxies, are NOT scale invariant (micro vs global climates?
The solar industry
tends to skew their jobs numbers by
focusing on job
growth rates instead of the absolute number of jobs added to the economy.