"Future outperformance" refers to the expectation or prediction that something or someone will perform better or achieve greater results in the coming period or in comparison to others.
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Using relative valuations, we forecast the five - year expected alphas for a broad universe of smart beta strategies as a tool for managing expectations about current portfolios and constructing new portfolios positioned
for future outperformance.
However, the fund's substantial asset base coupled with a large number (currently 160) of holdings may
make future outperformance difficult.
Still, active investing isn't right for everyone, there are no guarantees
of future outperformance and you need to temper your expectations.
In summary, low (high) investor sentiment is especially indicative of
future outperformance (underperformance) by the most speculative stocks.
So for all practical purposes, history is no guarantee of
future outperformance.
In the same way, Robert was well aware that
future outperformance was highly unlikely, but it wasn't impossible if he stayed with his active advisor.
Personally, I would be inclined to look through the industries toward the bottom of the list, looking for misunderstood companies that have good potential of
future outperformance.
It's right up there in the prospectus for the SGQI exchange traded note, which implies to me they believe institutional investors will make the link between returns coming from dividends and
future outperformance of income stocks, which is totally spurious.
I emailed SG questioning the relevance of the source of market returns to
future outperformance.