Sentences with phrase «of asset returns surprised»

Consensus growth expectations caught up to ours and global earnings jumped — but the magnitude of asset returns surprised us.

Not exact matches

In the spring of 2001, to the surprise of his colleagues, Seo left his big Wall Street firm and opened a hedge fund — which, he announced, wouldn't charge its investors the standard 2 percent of assets and 20 percent of returns but a lower, flat fee.

This portfolio rebalancing fits with our asset preferences based on our outlook for global growth, even if the fast pace of returns has surprised.

In a really large crisis, the return on risk assets may look decent from ten years before to ten years after, but a lot of people get surprised by their need to draw on those assets at the wrong moment — bad events come in bunches, when the credit cycle goes bust.

A potential surprise: A rally in risk assets prompted by investors shifting out of cash and low - yielding assets in search of higher returns.

By looking at the asset allocation of the portfolio, it doesn't really surprise me why it outperformed the S&P by 18 %: 40 % of the portfolio's assets are invested in Treasury securities, the highest among 8 Lazy Portfolios, with three funds: VFITX (YTD return 11.34 %), VFISX (YTD return 6.27 %) and VIPSX (YTD return -4.14 %).