Are there funds that, defying the pattern, excel in both bull and bear markets?
An excuse for the promotional sharks, both bull and bear, and stir up the waters.
In bull and bear markets, Madoff returned about ten per cent a year to Wilpon.
And what I mean by secular bull and bear are these are longer-term phases.
The decline in holding periods has been steady through 50 years of bull and bear markets.
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However, the bad news is that the performance through bull and bear markets remained dismal.
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"This is a conservative fund that should outperform in both bull and bear markets, " says Ward.
Using the ratings will help investors find the funds that do well in both bull and bear markets.
It gets honor grades in both bull and bear markets from Forbes, and five stars from fund rater Morningstar.
Market analysts (of which I am a minor variety) talk all the time about secular bull and bear cycles.
Croft Value received a B rating for both bull and bear markets in FORBES' most recent quarterly fund ratings.
It has a ten-year average annual return of 11% and a grade of A in both bull and bear markets.
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When looking at the numbers, bear in mind that the time period includes both bull and bear markets for stocks.
Our ratings for domestic stock funds look at long-term performance over four bull and bear market cycles stretching back 12 years.
Instead, we award separate grades for performance during bull and bear markets.
He's seen bull and bear markets and his strategy is to sit out the bears and ride the strongest stocks when the bulls are running.
This articles lays out the Bull and Bear case for Rackspace.
An interesting divergence given that global economies historically experience boom times and retrenchments, as well as bull and bear markets, pretty much in lockstep with each other.
In the stock market, we have bull and bear markets.
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The Bull and Bear is a steakhouse located just outside the hotel lobby, and it is the kind of restaurant that dictates an "elegant casual" dress code on its website.
Such tricks of the calendar are why Ken Solow, chief investment officer of Pinnacle Advisory Group, urges investors to evaluate portfolio managers' returns over both bull and bear markets.
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The Forbes fund rating system, which goes back half a century, looks at a minimum of two full market cycles and awards separate performance grades for bull and bear markets.
Moreover, although there are bull and bear markets in houses, prices tend to be less volatile than they are for shares, with more moderate peaks and troughs than the stockmarket.
Market conditions come in two flavors: bull and bear.
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Following my Rackspace: Bull and Bear Cases article, I had the opportunity to speak with Bryan McGrath, Director of Finance, at Rackspace to discuss the bear case, capital efficiencies, customer base and competition.
The global village aspect and intertwined economic dependence on each other can be seen in the way global economies enter and exit recessions together, and see their stock markets enter and exit bull and bear markets together.
However, I also do not look at one single time period (like the nearly 38 year period from 1972 through 2010) and presume that every asset class just happened to have a proper balance of its bull and bear extremes.
Investors would do well to set aside these simplistic asset allocation questionnaires and canned computer programs used by advisors and replace them with some serious soul searching about their true financial needs, as well as reviewing their investment behavior during strong bull and bear market.
Risk is captured in our fund survey by the separate grades for bull market and bear market results.
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