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.
Not exact matches
«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.
Our long - term and
full -
cycle views remain solidly negative, but our views regarding
shorter segments
of the
market cycle are more flexible than investors may imagine.
It's not that obscene valuations or syndromes
of extremely overextended conditions are irrelevant for long - term and
full -
cycle market outcomes; it's that the uniformity or divergence
of market internals is critical in evaluating
shorter segments
of the
market cycle.
Historically - reliable valuation measures are remarkably useful in projecting long - term and
full -
cycle market outcomes, but the behavior
of the
market over
shorter segments
of the
market cycle is driven by the psychological inclination
of investors toward speculation or risk - aversion.
But understand that even when valuations don't «work» over
shorter segments
of the
market cycle, the longer - term and
full -
cycle outcomes
of hypervaluation are predictably brutal.
Over the long - term, we expect our relative performance to be an increment over-and-above the absolute performance
of the
markets we invest in (though this is certainly not true over periods
shorter than a
full market cycle).
While long - term and
full -
cycle market outcomes are tightly determined by
market valuations, the effect
of valuations on outcomes over
shorter segments
of the
market cycle depends on the psychological preference
of investors toward speculation or risk aversion.
The central message
of our discipline is that valuations are enormously informative about prospects for long - term and
full -
cycle returns, but that outcomes over
shorter segments
of the
market cycle are driven by changes in the psychological preferences
of investors toward speculation or risk - aversion.
The fund has a wide range
of credit oriented securities that it can use on both a long and
short basis to generate absolute (positive) returns over
full market cycles.