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In The Long Run, Stocks Outperform Bonds… Or Do They?

Nerd's Eye View

So, although the entire 227-year span of McQuarrie's analysis from 1793 to 2019 was weakly supportive of Siegel's conclusions, there were subperiods where bonds actually outperformed stocks, leading McQuarrie to conclude that there was no consistent relationship between asset outperformance and length of holding period to which values must revert.

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Halftime Reading

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

If someone bought the Mystery Fund in late 2019, they wouldn't have been chasing heat even but a year later there probably would have been a ton of regret. The point is to understand that a portfolio that is valid for a long term investment plan will have periods where it lags in a frustrating manner.

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Market Commentary: S&P 500 Approaching All-Time High but US Economic Momentum Slowing

Carson Wealth

Congrats again to the Dow on an amazing run and to all the investors over the years who have benefited by sticking to their investment plans. That’s well below the 209,000 average we saw back in December, and even below the 2019 pace of 166,000. Refinancings are down 65% from average 2019 levels.

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How Inflation Can Impact Your Retirement Plan – What You Must Know Now!

Trade Brains

The Consumer Price Index (CPI)-based inflation eased to 2.82% in May 2025, down from 3.16% in April 2025, marking the lowest reading since February 2019. More recently, the annual inflation rate in India was recorded at 6.95% in 2023. The cumulative effect is striking: an item costing ₹100 in 1960 would cost ₹7,804.85 over that period.

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Market Commentary: S&P 500 Tops 5,000. What’s Next?

Carson Wealth

What a ride it has been, but investors were once again rewarded for sticking to their investment plans. over the last three quarters of 2023, which is the largest non-recessionary gain since the late 1990s and more than double the pace of productivity growth between 2005 and 2019. Despite this, annual inflation fell from 5.4%

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Market Commentary: Bull Keeps Going, 15 Years Since Global Financial Crisis

Carson Wealth

Yet, longer-term investors have once again been rewarded for sticking to their investment plans. For perspective, monthly job growth in 2019 averaged 166,000. Near bear markets in 2011 and 2018, a 100-year pandemic bear market in 2020 and then another bear market in 2022 made it anything but an easy 15 years.

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Five Sources of Alpha in an Aging Market Cycle

Brown Advisory

Five Sources of Alpha in an Aging Market Cycle ajackson Fri, 10/18/2019 - 10:30 For the past decade, investors have enjoyed a long climb up the “wall of worry.” 17% 3/31/1954- 9/30/2019 Price/Book Value 3.4 17% 3/31/1990- 9/30/2019 EV/EBITDA 13.3 29% 12/31/1990- 9/30/2019 Shiller P/E 29.0 Further, U.S.