2020 Projections, a Review of the Decade, and What’s Captured Investor Interest?
January 22, 2020 | FIRESIDE CHARTS
As we settle into the second week of earnings season, let’s take a look at what the analysts see coming in the next year. 4Q19 forecasts are predicting earnings will be down year-over-year, but analysts seem to see nothing but blue skies ahead in 2020 and project four straight quarters of YoY earnings growth. And while we’re currently in one of the longest periods of market calm on record, could this be the calm before the storm? A look at the charts shows just how far outside the norm the previous decade’s high-return/low-volatility combo has been, and we may be due for a return to the mean. Meanwhile, we talk a lot about the Fed’s policy moves and their economic implications, but are we giving too much credit to interest rates when they’re affecting a smaller and smaller share of the economy? Some analysts seem to think so, but we wouldn’t risk saying it to anyone with a mortgage or car loan to pay off. Finally, investor interest in strategies backed by data science, machine learning, and quantitative research has skyrocketed in the past 10 years—have you added any of these strategies to your portfolio yet?
1. What could possibly go wrong?
Source: WSJ Daily Shot, from 1/21/20
2. The markets have felt quiet for a while now…
Source: WSJ Daily Shot, from 1/21/20
3. More ammo to prepare your clients that the next decade is likely to be much different than the current/last one…
Source: WSJ Daily Shot, from 1/21/20
4. Another interesting comparison to the late 1990’s…
Source: WSJ Daily Shot, from 1/22/20
5. Yet rates still trickle through to the consumer…
Source: WSJ Daily Shot, from 1/21/20
6. Our firm has a modest student loan repayment plan. We feel it is the right thing to do!
Source: WSJ Daily Shot, from 1/22/20
7. Asian markets are down in general based on a new disease breaking out in China.
Source: WSJ Daily Shot, from 1/21/20
8. I guess our systems, now up to 10 years old, are becoming “all the rage.”
Source: WSJ Daily Shot, from 1/21/20
9. The bottom two are in our wheelhouse!
Source: WSJ Daily Shot, from 1/21/20
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