To avoid rotating managers at the point where active skill might matter most, institutional investors need more support to impress upon their boards the
importance of a full market cycle.
It's easy to chase performance and shift your portfolio into hot sectors, but that's not likely the best move over the
course of a full market cycle.
Over the better
part of a full market cycle, the Structural Alpha strategy captured the 80 % of the stock index's returns — the strategy gained about 70 % while the S&P rose 87 % — while largely sidestepping any sustained losses.
«Regardless of very short - term market direction, it is urgent for investors to understand where the equity markets are positioned in the
context of the full market cycle.
We don't know whether the current instance will have consequences similar to the 1929, 1972, 1987, 2000 and 2007 ones, but suffice it to say that these conditions were more notable for their outcomes over the
completion of the full market cycle than they were for their immediate outcomes.
But it is likely more than coincidence that every five years marks one market cycle and that DALBAR research on stock ownership patterns show people maintain stock investments for an average of 3.27 years — just a smidgeon longer than the time needed to develop ideas of a new regime and far
short of a full market cycle.
Over the better
part of a full market cycle, the Structural Alpha strategy captured 80 % of the stock index's returns — the strategy gained about 70 % while the S&P rose 87 % — while largely sidestepping any sustained losses.
Significant declines are part
of a full market cycles and should actually benefit the strategy when we are able to potentially sell the hedge at a significant profit and purchase more equity at a lower price while also an expectation of increased profits from our option selling as demonstrated in 2009.
Well, the highest Sharpe ratio of any small cap fund — domestic, global, or international — of the course
of the full market cycle.
Rather, the point is that even if such an advance emerges, the likelihood of those gains being retained by investors over the course
of the full market cycle is exceedingly small.