Sentences with phrase «marketing assets suggest»

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The minutes of the Fed's June meeting noted that «some participants suggested that increased risk tolerance among investors might be contributing to elevated asset prices more broadly; a few participants expressed concern that subdued market volatility, coupled with a low equity premium, could lead to a build - up of risks to financial stability.»

If every valuation metric I can find didn't suggest the domestic equity (and real estate) market is historically expensive, I'd try to follow Buffett's advice for his wife's estate and put 90 % of my assets in broad market equity index funds.

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the data suggests that these asset classes have outperformed the overall market in January, especially toward the middle of the month.Investment banker Sidney Wachtel first noticed this effect in 1942.

Still, the authors suggest that, as an asset class, U.S. investors should fully hedge their exposure to international developed - market equities.

Over time, this suggests rising bid - ask spreads relative to past levels for more illiquid assets, such as corporate bonds, to help market - makers cover their operating costs.

The new - issue bond market is expanding (Shin (2013)-RRB- and assets under the management of investment funds that promise daily liquidity are growing rapidly - as suggested by the increasing presence of exchange - traded funds in corporate bond markets in recent years (see also Box 2).

We have suggested over the past year, here and here, that a bear market in financial assets would lead to a loss of confidence in central bankers and an impulsive, uncontainable rise in the price of gold.

Even as the Fed has sought to give much clearer signals about its intentions to raise base rates, the performance of US risk assets has continued to improve, suggesting that markets are comfortable with the prospect of a small rise in base rates in December.

In particular, the organization raised concerns about leveraged trading of cryptocurrencies, though it acknowledged that the low correlation between cryptocurrencies and other assets «suggests that the risk of spillovers from idiosyncratic price moves in crypto assets to the wider market may be limited at this point.»

On the one hand, declining bond market activity and the persistence of low - risk arbitrage opportunities imply liquidity is impaired, while, on the other, low volatility and high demand for risky assets suggest that liquidity is alive and well.

In the days since UK Prime Minister David Cameron confirmed the date of the referendum, markets have experienced some volatility focused on UK - specific assets; spreads for some UK issuers of euro - denominated bonds have widened considerably for no apparent reason, which suggests to us that a lot of Europeans are selling their UK exposure.

Other market participants are suggesting that BOC Governor Poloz will announce a large - scale asset purchase program (better known as QE).

As suggested by a reader, we evaluate here stock market forecasts of John Buckingham, Chief Investment Officer of Al Frank Asset Management, who emphasizes careful stock selection, broad diversification and a long investing horizon.

Long ago I suggested that ebook samples are one of a publisher's most underutilized marketing assets.

Although recently rising prices for stocks, high - yield bonds, commodities and other riskier assets would suggest otherwise, investors remain skittish over the still unresolved and quite concerning risks facing financial markets, such as the U.S. presidential election, the potentially prolonged post-Brexit renegotiations, Italian bank solvency and a slowing China.

Many decades of market history suggest that you're likely to do considerably better in the long run if you use ETFs and index funds to spread their equity risk among thousands of companies, in 10 tried - and - true asset classes (only one of which is the S&P 500).

Anecdotal advice from various asset - allocation recommendation sources suggests avoiding the stock market unless you're going to be invested for at least ~ 5 - 7 years, and even then you should probably be balancing your investment with some money in bonds.

The first model that initiated the conversation on factor investing was the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) suggesting that a single factor — market exposure — drives the risk and return of a stock.

Peter Lynch also suggests buying companies with assets that outweigh their market capitalisation.

Our analysis of cycles and markets suggests that the combination of weaker growth and higher inflation is not good for risk assets such as equities.

Extensive research details a return premium associated with corporate profitability, measured by metrics such as operating profitability, return on equity, and return on assets.10 Novy - Marx (2013) suggested that the so - called profitability anomaly (labeled as such because it defies the efficient market hypothesis) results from investors» limited attention, a form of cognitive and behavioral bias.

The CIBC suggested that with the recent volatility on the stock market and the lower loonie, 22 per cent of investors are looking at «alternative asset» classes that include real estate or infrastructure.

He suggested that investors consider a range of asset classes and alternative markets, looking for those that are priced to offer better returns.

Mr. Powell points out that a «new white paper suggests that you can boost returns, reduce volatility, and beat inflation by investing — if your 401 (k) or 403 (b) plan offers such options — in real assets, emerging market equities and debt and liquid alternatives.»

The new Target Date recommendation takes more risk by investing in the more volatile small - cap - value and emerging markets asset classes early on, but history suggests that leads to significantly higher returns over a 20 to 40 year time frame which is what a young investor has ahead of them.

Theory and empirical evidence suggests that investors require higher return on assets with lower market liquidity to compensate them for the higher cost of trading these assets.

To get an idea of what blend of stocks and bonds might be right for you, you can go to this risk tolerance - asset allocation questionnaire, which will give you a suggested stocks - bonds mix based on factors such as how you would react to market downturns and when you plan to begin drawing money from your portfolio.

However, if the U.S. and world stock markets start to lose steam, which early clues suggest could already be the case, then safe - haven gold would benefit as money starts to flow out of the riskier asset class, equities.

She has suggested far - reaching new regulations that would, among other things, require money market funds to vary their share prices, or net asset values.

The 10 % of firms with the lowest percent operating accruals (total asset - scaled accruals) have an average market capitalization of $ 1.5 billion ($ 474 million), suggesting lower trading frictions for strategies based on percent accruals.

History of Changes to the IFA Indexes: 1991 - 2000: IFA Index Portfolios 10, 30, 50, 70 and 90 were originally suggested by Dimensional Fund Advisors (ifa.com/pdf/balancedstrategies.pdf), merely as an example of globally diversified investments using their custom index mutual funds, back in 1992 with moderate modifications in 1996 to reflect the availability of index funds that tracked the emerging markets asset class.

But just to be sure, you might want to complete this 11 - question risk tolerance - asset allocation questionnaire, which will suggest an appropriate stocks - bonds mix based on your answers and also show you how that mix as well as others have performed in the past over long stretches and in up and down markets.

The combination of a measurable increase in ETF trading volumes, disproportionately small corresponding net cash flows, and consistently tighter bid - ask spreads in large ETFs than in the underlying assets suggests that investors who used ETFs to reduce or add to market exposure benefitted from liquidity that was additive to the underlying asset markets.

While, at the overall index level, current corporate fundamentals remain resilient and defaults are not expected to pick up significantly, the trend in leverage, profit margins and interest coverage suggests the pricing of spread assets should become more discriminatory as winners and losers are separated in an aging bull market.

Let's assume that the goal of diversification is to reduce our risk by taking on new, uncorrelated risks in order to seek equitylike returns at bondlike risk — our industry's holy grail — rather than merely to invest some of our money in low - volatility markets.8 Most would suggest that other risky assets should serve this purpose — if they offer an uncorrelated risk premium (e.g., if that risk premium is related to risk, not to beta).

It should come as no surprise that the top - performing sector of the REIT market varies through time, suggesting that most investors will want to maintain exposure to every part of the real estate asset class.

Interestingly enough, in recent conversations, Robert has suggested the most likely option — a sell - off of legal information divisions of the two behemoths to new players in the market with fresh visions as to how to capitalize on the assets of the old time legal publishers.

When there's a base of assets that aren't affected by market movements, you might be more comfortable suggesting a measured degree of risk with investments that aren't immediately needed.

He suggested the market is now in wait - and - see mode, but that there could benefits to one technical solution winning out, as long as two bitcoin assets don't emerge.

The latest portion of crypto - negative speculations emerged late on Thursday, when Evan Van Ness from The Week in Ethereum posted a tweet, suggesting that popular email marketing service MailChimp was closing all accounts related to digital assets.

This suggests the market is distributing wealth more proportionately across the digital asset class, which is positive from the perspective of risk.

While bloggers have long accused Tether of creating the asset out of thin air, news reports are now speculating doomsday scenarios following a CoinDesk report that suggests the startup has broken ties with an auditor acquired to calm market fears.

If your client is looking for smaller properties, networking with bulk REO purchasers, which will often shed smaller assets or ones in secondary markets, is a great way to find properties, suggests Levy.

The quality of management teams in the REIT space varies widely, and the range of valuation multiples that the market ascribes to portfolios of similar assets suggests that there is the potential to create shareholder value by transferring assets from the underperforming REITs to the more capable management teams.

While the value of these assets has been written down substantially from the high marks preceding the recession, the lack of liquidity in the market and weakening fundamentals suggest that values may still be overstated.

The study also found that walkability was associated with lower cap rates and higher incomes, suggesting it has been favored in both the capital asset and building space markets.

Applying stock market analysis of Convergence / Divergence [which may or may not be the correct application of such for this exercise] suggests that when a divergence of this nature happens, decrease in the underlying asset is soon to follow.

The growth of economies with high savings rates and a shortage of both mature financial markets and safe assets — like China — suggest that capital will seek a safe home for some time now.