Market Comment December 2019
Submitted by Wespac Advisors, LLC on December 11th, 2019WESPAC Advisors Market Comment December 10, 2019
Fifteen years ago, Wespac Advisors set out to develop a new approach to investment management to cope with what we saw as the new market reality – the boom and bust cycle from 1995-2002. The world had changed, and Wespac felt that investment management had to change to continue to generate the returns and safety that our clients expected. Since we developed our new approach, we were tested with yet another boom cycle from 2003-2007, the bust cycle in 2008, and now another boom cycle from 2009 through today. Our returns for our clients demonstrate the success of our new approach across some violent markets.
The environment after the 2008 Crisis has continued to change. The link between economic and earnings fundamentals and the markets has become stretched. Central banks around the globe are shamelessly targeting asset prices with monetary policy. Corporations are indulging in financial engineering and stock buybacks, clouding earnings performance. The markets are buffeted daily by the micro boom and bust cycles caused by high frequency trading. The environment is getting even more challenging.
The uncertainty and volatility of the markets over the past 20 years calls into question conventional investment management. Most investment management strategies are based on predictions of the future and speculation about how securities will behave in that context. Wespac Advisors believes that a more flexible and adaptive processes is required to safely manage assets in this environment.
WESPAC Advisors Market Comment December 10, 2019 While it’s highly recommended that we use a financial advisor when we start to grow our investment portfolio, there are a lot of things you can do before you ever speak to a financial advisor to grow and maintain your investment portfolio. Investing, like everything else in life, has no guarantees, and even the hottest stock or the best tip may not always perform the way we would like. As of December 2018, more than 43.7 million retired Americans collected Social Security, with more than 8 million disabled workers collecting benefits as well. But Social Security is much more than retirement income. Along with providing a small income to millions of seniors, Social Security also provides life insurance as well as survivor benefits. Market Review & Outlook July 2019 We just wrapped up the best quarter for US stocks since the fourth quarter of 2013, with the headline indices all delivering strong performance, despite a variety of challenges. The rate environment continued to challenge fixed income investors, as the bond market was flat for the quarter. With the aging bull market now in its tenth year, investors are looking for signs that stocks can continue to enjoy gains in a market where shares have looked historically expensive for several years now. As is usually the case, the markets are giving us conflicting signals about its direction, but for now the primary trend still looks higher. Volatility is back. After one of the least volatile years in stock market history, 2018 is shaping up to be more normal from a volatility perspective – or perhaps even more volatile than normal. In many ways, 2017 was a tumultuous year, but not when it came to the financial markets. One of the longest bull markets in history shows few signs of slowing down. Depending on how one measures such things, it is now the longest cyclical bull market on record. Expectations were not very high at the beginning of last year. Manager Commentary Manager CommentaryMarket Comment December 2019
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