- Equity markets posted positive performance in Q2 2014, led by emerging markets which reversed their underperformance from Q1. REITs outperformed broad equity markets in both the US and internationally.
- Within asset classes, value outperformed growth and large caps outperformed small caps. The US dollar depreciated against many international currencies.
- Commodities finished relatively flat for the quarter. Nickel was the top performing commodity while grains had the worst performance.
A quarterly review of capital markets including a detailed breakdown of current events and how they impacted the financial markets in the past 12 months and in the past quarter. Also includes performance broken down by asset class and geography - along with a brief market commentary.
This report features world capital market performance and a timeline of events for the past quarter. It begins with a global overview, then features the returns of
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The report also illustrates the performance of globally diversified portfolios and features a quarterly topic.
A quarterly review of capital markets including a detailed breakdown of current events and how they impacted the financial markets in the past 12 months and in the past quarter. Also includes performance broken down by asset class and geography - along with a brief market commentary.
This report features world capital market performance and a timeline of events for the past quarter. It begins with a global overview, then features the returns of
stock and bond asset classes in the US and
international markets.
The report also illustrates the performance of globally diversified portfolios and features a quarterly topic.
Report features world capital market performance and a timeline of events for the past quarter. It also features a short essay on how the Brexit vote provided a fresh lesson on the false promise of market timing.
This is the version of our newsletter without commentary; it features world capital market performance and a timeline of events from the last quarter and the past twelve months. There's also an in-depth look at the performance of various asset classes and a brief article titled "Presidential Elections and the Stock Market"
This report features world capital market performance and a timeline of events for the past quarter. It begins with a global overview, then features the returns of
stock and bond asset classes in the US and
international markets.
The report also illustrates the performance of globally diversified portfolios and features a quarterly topic.
Report features world capital market performance and a timeline of events for the past quarter. It also features a short essay on how the Brexit vote provided a fresh lesson on the false promise of market timing.
This is the version of our newsletter without commentary; it features world capital market performance and a timeline of events from the last quarter and the past twelve months. There's also an in-depth look at the performance of various asset classes and a brief article titled "Presidential Elections and the Stock Market"
This report features world capital market performance and a timeline of events for the past quarter. It begins with a global overview, then features the returns of
stock and bond asset classes in the US and
international markets.
The report also illustrates the performance of globally diversified portfolios and features a quarterly topic.
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This report features world capital market performance and a timeline of events for the last quarter. The report also illustrates the performance of globally diversified portfolios and features a topic of the quarter.
This report features world capital market performance and a timeline of events for the past quarter. It begins with a global overview, then features the returns of stock and bond asset classes in the US and international markets.
This report features world capital market performance and a timeline of events for the past quarter. It begins with a global overview, then features the returns of stock and bond asset classes in the US and international markets.
The report also illustrates the performance of globally diversified portfolios and features a quarterly topic.
An overview of financial markets during the last quarter of 2015 and a chart graphing market performance over the quarter alongside major financial news. Contains summary's of world stock market performance as well as performance separated by country, asset class, and a small part on the effects of global diversification. Topic for the quarter is "The Rise of Short-Term Rates".
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The report also illustrates the impact of globally diversified portfolios and features a quarterly topic
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This report features world capital market performance and a timeline of events for the past quarter. It begins with a global overview, then features the returns of stock and bond asset classes in the US and international markets.
While we believe that investors should always focus on the long term, we recognize that there is always a great deal of interest in happenings in the market place. With that in mind we publish a brief market update each quarter. Here you will find updates for the second quarter of 2017.- F5 Financial Planning
Q2 2017 Market Report. This report features world capital market performance and a timeline of events for the past quarter. It begins with a global overview, then features the returns of stock and bond asset classes in the US and international markets.
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2. Quarterly Market Review
Second Quarter 2014
Overview:
Market Summary
US Stock Market Performance
World Asset Classes
US Stocks
International Developed Stocks
This report features world capital market performance
and a timeline of events for the past quarter. It begins
with a global overview, then features the returns of
stock and bond asset classes in the US and
international markets.
The report also illustrates the performance of globally
diversified portfolios and features a topic of the quarter.
International Developed Stocks
Emerging Markets Stocks
Select Country Performance
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
Commodities
Fixed Income
Global Diversification
Quarterly Topic: Connecting the Dots
4. 3,400
3,500
3,600
US Stock Market Performance
S&P 500 Index with Selected Headlines from Q2 2014
“S&P Closes at
Record High”
“Private Employment Hits
a New High, but
Government Hiring Lags”
“US Economy Back
on Growth Track,
Survey Says”
“Bond Rally
Takes Yields to
2014 Lows”
“Emerging Markets
Rally—Investors
“Doubts Rise on
Europe’s
Recession Exit”
“Fed Officials
Signal that Rates
to Stay Low for
Long time”
“New Home Sales
Jump to Six-Year
High Point”
S&P500TotalReturnIndex
3,100
3,200
3,300
4
Returns in US dollars. Graph Source: The S&P data are provided by Standard & Poor's Index Services Group.
It is not possible to invest directly in an index. Performance does not reflect the expenses associated with management of an actual portfolio. Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
These headlines are not offered to explain market returns. Instead, they serve as a reminder that investors should view daily
events from a longer-term perspective and avoid making investment decisions based solely on the news.
Apr May June
“Greece Plans
First Sale of
Long-Term
Bonds”
“Housing
Slow to Take
Off in Spring”
“Ukraine to Get
Lifeline from
Abroad”
“US Considers
Lifting Crude Oil
Export Ban”
Rally—Investors
Return to Assets
Shed in Winter Slide”
“Economy
Shrank
Rapidly in
First Quarter”
“S&P 500 Posts
Strongest
Second Quarter
since 2009”
S&P500TotalReturnIndex
14. Human beings love stories. But this
innate tendency can lead us to imagine
connections between events where none
really exist. For financial journalists, this
is a virtual job requirement. For investors,
it can be a disaster.
“The Australian dollar rose today after Westpac Bank
dropped its forecast of further central bank interest rate
cuts this year,” read a recent lead story on Bloomberg.
But the jamming of often-unconnected events into
a story can lead us to mix up causes and effects
and focus on all the wrong things. The writer and
academic Nassim Taleb came up with a name for
this story-telling imperative: the narrative fallacy.1
The narrative fallacy, which is linked to another
behavior called confirmation bias, refers to our
tendency to seize on vaguely coherent explanations
for complex events and then to interpret every
development in that light.
These self-deceptions can make us construct flimsy,
is a haphazard affair and can incur significant cost.
Essentially, you are counting on finding a mistake
before anyone else. And in highly competitive markets
with millions of participants, that’s a tall order.
There is a saner approach, one that doesn’t require
you spending half your life watching CNBC and
checking Bloomberg. This approach is methodical
and research-based, a world away from the financial
news circus.
The alternative consists of looking at data over long
time periods and across different countries and
Connecting the Dots
Second Quarter 2014
Needing to create order from chaos, journalists often
stick the word “after” between two events to imply
causation. In this case, the implication is the currency
rose because a bank had changed its forecast for
official interest rates.
Perhaps it did. Or perhaps the currency was boosted
by a large order from an exporter converting US
dollar receipts to Australia or by an adjustment from
speculators covering short positions. Markets can
move for many reasons.
For individual investors, financial news can be
distracting. All this linking of news events to very
short-term stock price movements can lead us to
think that if we study the news closely enough we
can work out which way the market will move.
These self-deceptions can make us construct flimsy,
if superficially logical, stories around what has
happened in the markets and project it into the future.
The financial media does this because it has to.
Journalists are professionally inclined to extrapolate
the incidental and specific to the systematic and
general. They will often derive universal patterns
from what are really just random events.
Building neat and tidy stories out of short-term
price changes might be a good way to win ratings
and readership, but it is not a good way to
approach investment.
Of course, this is not to deny that markets can be
noisy and imperfect. But trying to second-guess
these changes by constructing stories around them
time periods and across different countries and
multiple markets. The aim is to find factors that explain
differences in returns. These return “dimensions” must
be persistent and pervasive. Most of all, they must be
cost-effective to capture in real-world portfolios.
Admittedly, this isn’t a story that’s going to grab
headlines. Using the research-based method and
imposing a very high burden of proof, this approach
resists generalization, simplification, and using
one-off events to jump to conclusions.
But for most investors, it’s the right story.
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1. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Penguin, 2008.
Adapted from “Connecting the Dots” by Jim Parker, Outside the Flags column on Dimensional’s website, April 2014. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP ("Dimensional") is an investment advisor registered with the Securities and
Exchange Commission. All expressions of opinion are subject to change without notice in reaction to shifting market conditions. This content is provided for informational purposes, and it is not to be construed as an offer,
solicitation, recommendation or endorsement of any particular security, products, or services.