In this month's issue, one of the many topics I discuss are the recent headlines that are caterwauling about being in a market bubble that is about to burst. Are they right or wrong?... Read more
Markets continue to rally on two COVID-19 trend rails: Vaccine hopes and COVID-related consumer purchasing behavior and use demands. Those trends are likely to remain investor friends. But the cause of these trends remains problematic and renders gains prone to a setback.... Read more
If you haven't noticed, recent headlines are caterwauling about being in a market bubble that is about to burst. Are we really in a market bubble? In the meantime, I do think that a handful of stocks are bubbling and could lead to the perception that as they go, so the market should go—a potentially self-fulfilling prophecy that, while painful in the short run, would create discounted prices in growth and value stocks alike.... Read more
| Model | YTD | 5-Year (Annualized) |
|---|---|---|
| Global Quant Growth | 5.8% | 12.1% |
| Global Quant Income | 4.7% | N/A |
| Growth | 11.0% | 10.3% |
| Factor+ | N/A | N/A |
| Growth & Income | 2.1% | 7.4% |
| Income | -0.9% | 4.2% |
| Annuity Growth | 8.4% | 9.6% |
| Annuity Growth & Income | 5.3% | 8.1% |
| S&P 500 | 9.7% | 14.5% |
| Fidelity Investor Index | 7.3% | 8.1% |
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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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