Are there funds that, defying the pattern, excel in both bull and bear markets?
In bull and bear markets, Madoff returned about ten per cent a year to Wilpon.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
Unfortunately, over the very long-term the market cycles back and forth between secular bull markets and secular bear markets on a quite regular basis.
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And you can have, you know, price bull markets and price bear markets and, you know, you can have these conversations.
There were numerous cyclical bull markets and cyclical bear markets during the 16 years, but it was a time for market-timing not buy and hold.
For the next 17 years the Dow cycled between cyclical bull markets and cyclical bear markets, but did not manage to rise above its level of 1965 until late in 1982.
The last 110 years were clearly divided into three secular bull markets and three secular bear markets.
There have been three secular bull markets, and three secular bear markets over the last 110 years.
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On our report card, Fidelity Select Technology lands an A for bull markets and an F for bear markets.
The other, the "speculative element, " is driven by sentiment and emotion: hope and greed and thrill-seeking in bull markets, fear and regret and revulsion in bear markets.
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In 1961 the newly appointed editor, James W. Michaels, adopted a rating system in which funds were scored separately in bull markets and bear ones.
Rowe Price Latin America Fund, which FORBES rates A for bull market performance and B for bear markets.
He believes that bear and bull markets run on their own schedules.
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