July 25 - The "Let Your Winners Ride" portfolios are lists of the 3 S&P 500 sectors and 10 sub-industries that posted the strongest price performances in the prior calendar year. As we look toward the second half of this year, we see that the three sectors with the best trailing 12-month price performances are Consumer Staples, Energy, and Utilities, while the best 10 sub-industries are Brewers, Coal & Consumable Fuels, Construction & Engineering, Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals, Health Care Facilities, HyperMarkets, Oil & Gas Exploration & Production, Railroads, Specialized Consumer Services and Trucking. Will they out-perform in the second half? Remember that past performance is no guarantee of future results.
Jan. 11 - My "Let Your Winners Ride" portfolios are lists of the three S&P 500 sectors and 10 S&P 500 sub-industries that posted the strongest price performances in the prior calendar year
Jan. 12 - An investor who chose the worst portfolio saw a 7.8% compound growth rate, but the investor who selected the best portfolio, however, received a 13.8% compound return.
Sept. 26 - At this week's investment policy committee meeting, we discussed the possibility that September 17 was the bottom of this bear market. I don't think anyone knows for sure if the...
Jan. 19 - S&P's Sam Stovall believes that monitoring a group’s rolling 12-month price performance versus that for the overall market can help an investor spot turning points and trends.
Aug. 15 - At this week's Investment Policy Committee meeting, we discussed whether the S&P 500's price performance from August through October is a good predictor of which party will be elected to...
Nov. 9 - In an attempt to advise investors not to chase surging emerging market returns, S&P's Investment Policy Committee lowered its recommended exposure to emerging market equities.
June 20 - At this week’s Investment Policy Committee meeting, we discussed the investment outlooks for the growth and value splits within S&P’s US indices.
Feb. 1 - At this week's Investment Policy Committee meeting, we discussed Standard &Poor's performance as an indicator of the rest of the year's market and sector results.
June 8 - As the S&P 500 focused on eclipsing its old high set on March 24, 2000, we think any bad news that could have interfered with this record-setting run was essentially ignored. We think...
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