Sentences with phrase «poor returns over the long term»

Overpaying for stocks leads to mediocre or poor returns over the long term.

As an individual investor, nearly all asset classes seem priced to deliver poor returns over the long term.

Not exact matches

Investors should also take note that poor years — those in the bottom quartile of returns — tended to be worse when starting valuations were more elevated over the long - term average.

So while there could be one or even five year periods where longer maturity bonds perform fairly well from these yield levels, over the long - term they're likely to be a poor investment in terms of earning a decent return over the rate of inflation.

He found that just buying low price / book stocks does not produce excess returns over the long term, because many low price / book companies are trading at a discount because they deserve to — they're dogs with poor prospects.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a depoor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a dePoor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

Overall, we view the stock market as strenuously overvalued, with the likelihood of poor long - term returns in the area of about 3.5 - 4 % over the coming decade.

With the market presently at (normalized) valuations that are associated with poor long - term prospective returns, with short - term conditions overbought and overbullish, and with intermediate - term conditions characterized by an exhaustion syndrome that has historically produced disproportionately weak returns over the next few quarters, I do not believe that we are faced with such an opportunity here.

On a cyclically adjusted earnings basis (where profits are averaged over the prior decade), the average cyclically adjusted P / E ratio following periods of poor long - term returns was 12.

Since index funds simply buy the stocks or bonds that make up indexes like the Standard & Poor's 500 or Barclays U.S. Aggregate bond index rather than spend millions on costly research and manpower to identify which securities might perform best, they're able to pass those savings along to shareholders in the form of lower annual fees, which translates to higher returns and more wealth over the long term.

Broad stock market indices such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and the Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500 have averaged 9 to 10 % in annual returns over the long term.

Research from Dalbar (a U.S. financial research firm) indicates that investors underperform the funds they invest in by 3 % + per year over the long haul because of poor behaviour — e.g. reacting adversely to market news, chasing short - term returns, and generally trading too much.