Whether you are a new or a long-time Fidelity Investor subscriber, you may have noticed the red and green arrows in each of my monthly Performance Reviews.But perhaps you don't know how to read them or what they illustrate. Not to worry. In your August issue, I'll explain what they mean in full detail.... Read more
After moving up on an elevated mood in July (thanks to a convergence of assumptions regarding a more benign trade war outcome and a worsening global growth trend line that could be countermanded here at home by more stimulus efforts), the mood pendulum has swung back on renewed recession and trade war fears.... Read more
Growth investors are always looking up with lofty expectations, while value investors are always looking under rocks, grounding themselves in valuations and values.... Read more
| Model | YTD | 5-Year (Annualized) |
|---|---|---|
| Global Quant Growth | 17.9% | 10.1% |
| Growth | 14.0% | 7.5% |
| Growth & Income | 10.7% | 6.5% |
| Income | 8.4% | 4.5% |
| Annuity Growth | 16.8% | 6.9% |
| Annuity Growth & Income | 14.1% | 6.1% |
| S&P 500 | 20.2% | 11.3% |
| Fidelity Investor Index | 12.8% | 6.1% |
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Jim Lowell is Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning independent newsletters Fidelity Investor and Fidelity Sector Investor. Through his newsletters, Jim advises individual investors seeking superior performance from their Fidelity investments. He has also written several books on investing, Investing from Scratch (revised edition, Penguin, 2006) and What Every Fidelity Investor Needs to Know (Wiley, 2007) among them. Read more
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