MacMaster has a bigger weight on
his shoulders than the average investor, though.
Not exact matches
And it
should be noted that the pension funds backing the LTVC have different imperatives
than the
average investor.
In related news, John Bogle, founder of Vanguard, told Bloomberg in a separate interview he agreed with Gross that
investors should expect lower long - term returns
than average returns produced over the last century.
More conservative
investors...
should dollar cost
average in and be fully invested by no later
than November, when the stock market will likely be rallying in anticipation of an improving economic environment in 2010.
Investors should pay close attention to the composition of a target - date fund, as the whole will perform no better
than the weighted
average of the parts (i.e., the equity «sleeve» and the fixed income «sleeve»).
The theory says that the only reason an
investor should earn more, on
average, by investing in one stock rather
than another is that one stock is riskier.
While on the one hand, one might believe this is good for America as these «permanent» owners
should think very long term compared with the many
investors whose
average holding period is less
than one year.
However, the
investor should expect no more
than average results.
Of course, this means that,
should this bull market deliver an
average surge,
investors can hope for less
than 20 % more growth from this cycle.
Buyers
should expect to pay $ 50,000 or more
than the inner neighbourhood
average if they want to buy into River Heights — and expect to compete against other buyers and even
investors.
This is an advanced strategy not appropriate for the
average investor, but a retiree
should ask his or her portfolio manager whether this would make sense to protect a portfolio weighted more heavily to stocks
than is optimum for a retiree.
In contrast, the enterprising (or active)
investor is devoted to finding securities that are «both sound and more attractive
than the
average» and, over time,
should be rewarded by earning a higher
average return
than the defensive, or passive
investor.
Since the current payout ratios are slightly higher
than the company's historical
average,
investors should probably expect annual dividend growth that's slightly less
than EPS and FCF growth, along the lines of 6 % to 8 % a year.