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2023 Investment and Market Updates: A Review of the Worst Year Since 1871

Brian DeChesare

Any discussion of the financial markets in 2022 needs to acknowledge one important fact upfront: it was the worst year for stocks and bonds since at least 1871. Meanwhile, disasters kept emerging in the riskiest parts of the market, such as crypto (see: FTX , Celsius, etc.), And my performance stats are as follows: 2019: +36%.

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Data Update 2 for 2022: US Stocks kept winning in 2021, but…

Musings on Markets

If equity markets surprised us with their resilience in 2020, not just weathering a pandemic for the ages, but prospering in its midst, US equity markets, in particular, managed to find light even in the darkest news stories, and continued their rise through 2021. The year that was.

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A Follow up on Inflation: The Disparate Effects on Company Values!

Musings on Markets

Historical Data: 1930-2019 To see how this framework works in practice, let's start by looking at the performance of US stocks, across the decades, and look at the returns on stocks, broadly categorized based on market capitalization and price to book ratios.

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Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what does it say?

Musings on Markets

I have also developed a practice in the last decade of spending much of January exploring what the data tells us, and does not tell us, about the investing, financing and dividend choices that companies made during the most recent year.

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REITs: Healthcare Or Office? One Performs Better In A Recession (Both Tout Yields Over 5%)

Benzinga

30, 2019, healthcare real estate investment trusts (REITs) have earned a trailing ten-year return of 11.6% S&P Global reported that healthcare REITs have a five-year average dividend yield of 5.2%, while office REITs hold an average dividend yield of 2.9%. From data gathered on Sept. on average.

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Data Update 2 for 2023: A Rocky Year for Equities!

Musings on Markets

It is the nature of stocks that you have good years and bad ones, and much as we like to forget about the latter during market booms, they recur at regular intervals, if for no other reason than to remind us that risk is not an abstraction, and that stocks don't always win, even in the long term. at the start of that year.

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Value and Growth Investing: Finding the Best of Both Worlds

Andrew Stolz

Rather it is based on investors’ critical thinking, due diligence, and using methods that combine value and growth strategies such as Peter Lynch’s PEG and dividend adjusted-PEG ratios. Another reason is that investors believe the said company has the potential to become a market leader. The Basics of Growth Investing.