Sentences with phrase «investors in that historical period»

Not exact matches

The rollercoaster ride in oil prices over the past three years may be old hat to investors familiar with the commodity's historical sensitivity to macro events (see chart below), but oil price volatility is by no means endemic and several factors are now lining up to suggest a calmer period for crude may lie ahead.

The value of issuance by asset - backed vehicles was 25 per cent below the value seen in the corresponding period of 2004 but investor demand for mortgage - backed securities remains strong, as evidenced by the fact that primary spreads remain close to their historical lows.

An examination of the historical performance of fixed income in the periods during and immediately following a rate rise has revealed a potentially more favorable outlook for investors who were committed to the long - term role that bonds typically play in a portfolio.

Last week I ran a post about the median stock trading at an all - time high valuation that included this chart from «Millennial Investor» Patrick O'Shaughnessy showing historical EBITDA yields for all stocks in the universe greater than $ 200 million market capitalization from the period 1971 to date:

It drives me crazy that most experts in this field were advising investors to go with high stock allocations in 2000, when the P / E10 value was so high that a regression analysis of the historical return data showed that the most likely 10 - year annualized return on stocks was a negative 1 percent real and when Treasury Inflation - Protected Bonds were offering a risk - free return of 4 percent real for time - periods of up to 30 years.

In contrast, comparing current valuation levels to historical averages may give investors a misleading sense about the «support» provided by valuations, because the majority of those historical periods featured a dramatically different back - drop.