Market Vs. Economic Cycles And Sector Rotation – Seeking Alpha
Market Vs. Economic Cycles And Sector Rotation – Seeking Alpha. By Lance Roberts “To Everything (Turn, Turn, Turn) There Is A Season (Turn, Turn, Turn) And A Time To Every Purpose, Under HeavenA Time To Be Born, A Time To Die A Time To Plan, A Time To Reap A Time To Kill, A Time To Heal A Time To Laugh, A Time To Weap” Those lyrics to Turn! …
ETFs flourish as alpha stay elusive By David Ricketts
ETFs flourish as alpha stays elusive By David Ricketts It is no secret that active managers have received considerable flak for often failing to outperform benchmark indices and generate returns in line with their handsome fees. Investors remain convinced that those with superior investment clout should be best placed to navigate market turbulence in search of the highest possible returns. Figures suggest performance among active managers has been lacklustre, to …
Insight: Absolute return funds: no sure refuge By Sinead Cruise and Tommy Wilkes
Thu, Aug 18 2011 LONDON (Reuters) – Absolute return funds could be turning into Europe’s next investment mis-selling row. As freefalling equity and bond markets ravage people’s savings, private investors globally are piling into the funds, which aim to deliver positive returns whether markets are rising or falling. That demand has driven the assets held in absolute return funds to 182.1 billion euros globally at June 30, data from Lipper, …
Time to revisit absolute-return strategies? By Gordon Ross
Published: August 19, 2011 Central banks’ attempts to sustain the global recovery have left many bond investors in a tricky position. With rates at extreme lows, there is little room for further declines and consequently less opportunity for bond investors to achieve capital gains. Unless the economy slips back into recession, yields should move up in the next year or so, leading to capital declines in fixed-income strategies managed against …
Indiana Public Retirement drops GMO as absolute-return manager By Barry Burr
By Barry B. Burr Published: November 4, 2011 Indiana Public Retirement System, Indianapolis, terminated GMO, which ran $132.3 million in an absolute-return strategy for the $23.5 billion system, according to an investment board report.  “In our continuous effort to mitigate the overall fund’s correlation to equity markets, it is our desire to minimize directional bets in the hedge fund portfolio,” the report said. “Approximately 70% of the monies in …
Sector ETFs Applied to Rotation Strategies
Sector ETFs Applied to Rotation Strategies Written on 09/15/2011 All investors have one thing in common, and that is their end goal. Everyone wants to make money, and preferrably at a rate that will mitigate the effects of inflation and provide for a comfortable retirement. That means you need to be implementing an investment strategy that outpeforms the S&P 500. Well, in all fairness this may not have always …
How To Use ETFs For Sector Rotation Strategies – Forbes
How To Use ETFs For Sector Rotation Strategies – Forbes. How To Use ETFs For Sector Rotation Strategies
Follow the Cycle – Richard Bernstein Advisors – October 31, 2011
Follow the Cycle – Richard Bernstein Advisors – October 31, 2011. It remains a mystery to us as to why investors believe each cycle is terribly different from other cycles. The title of a very popular book right now is “This Time is Different.” Some cycles are, of course, stronger and some are weaker, and some cycles last longer than others. However, the investment implications at different points in the …
Treasuries Rise as Call for Greece Referendum Buoys Safety Bid – Businessweek
Treasuries Rise as Call for Greece Referendum Buoys Safety Bid – Businessweek. second press
Treasuries Rise as Call for Greece Referendum Buoys Safety Bid – Businessweek
Treasuries Rise as Call for Greece Referendum Buoys Safety Bid – Businessweek. By Cordell Eddings Nov. 1 (Bloomberg) — Treasuries rose, extending the biggest rally in 30-year bonds since March 2009, as renewed concern Greece will default and the European rescue plan will unravel boosted demand for the safest assets. U.S. government debt securities gained for a third day after Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou called a referendum and a …