Explains it due to pension funds
shifting out of equities and into bonds and that US 10 year is pretty good relative to Japan and Europe.
Well, it will certainly lift the rate of return investors expect from stocks, but bulls insists that with earnings growing 20 percent this year, the expected return may be sufficiently high, so that there will not be
any shift out of equities, that corporations are going to make enough money to more than compensate for higher rates.
Not exact matches
After years and years and years
of massive, massive inflows into bond funds and equally massive outflows
out of domestic
equity funds, we've finally started to see that
shift.
Back when the firm rolled
out target - date products, he says, the funds were designed to
shift gradually toward a retirement allocation
of 25 %
equity and 75 % fixed income.
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Though the gain in the S&P 500 since 2014 is likely to be wiped
out rather easily, the challenge for hedged
equity strategies in the interim has been the extended duration
of this top formation, coupled with a feverish
shift of investors toward indexing, which has benefited the capitalization - weighted indices relative to a wide range
of historically effective stock - selection approaches.
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Beginning in the early 1950s, pension funds began to
shift their allocations
out of fixed income and into
equities.
Last year, investors
shifted their money
out of money markets into both bonds and
equities.
Since different types
of equity securities (e.g., large - cap, mid-cap, small - cap) tend to
shift into and
out of favor with investors depending on market and economic conditions, the performance
of the Fund may also be worse than the performance
of equity funds that focus on other types
of equities or have a broader investment style when the adviser's management style is
out -
of - favor.
I was surprised to learn that most planners are now advising to
shift investment strategies towards U.S.
equities and bonds have deeply fallen
out of favor.
Three months later and investors discovered the European problem; until recently we were in risk - off mode again, the market trending down as investors
shifted out of «risky»
equities.
Money is
shifting out of U.S. Treasuries and into
equities as end -
of - the - year asset allocation continues.
For example, while many investors responded to the 2008 financial crisis by moving their money
out of equities, those who left their 401 (k) s alone gained as much as 64 %, because they didn't
shift their strategy.
For investors seeking
out the proverbial free lunch
of international
equity diversification — like returns with lower risk — this doesn't sound like a favorable
shift in trends.
Already institutional investors like hedge funds, mutual funds, private
equity firms... etc. are
shifting from buying stocks... to committing hundreds
of millions
of dollars (in some cases, billions) to buying foreclosed and REO houses... and renting them
out.