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Monthly Market Review “Come On In, The Water’s Fine!” February 21, 2013. Kevin M. Wilson, ChFC , PhD President/CEO/CIO. Dheenu Sivalingam, MBA AVP/CCO/Senior Analyst. Ted A. Pavlovich, WMS VP Wealth Management. Office: 218-464-4399 Toll Free: 877-327-5062 Fax: 218-464-4397
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Monthly Market Review • “Come On In, The Water’s Fine!” February 21, 2013 Kevin M. Wilson, ChFC, PhD President/CEO/CIO Dheenu Sivalingam, MBA AVP/CCO/Senior Analyst Ted A. Pavlovich, WMS VP Wealth Management Office: 218-464-4399 Toll Free: 877-327-5062 Fax: 218-464-4397 Email: info@bluewater-cap.com www.bluewatercapitaladvisors.com 1405 Medical Arts Building 324 W. Superior Street Duluth, MN 55802 1
Wall St. & the Fed Both Ignored the Risk of a Stock Bubble in 1995-2000… …And They Also Ignored The Housing Bubble In 2003-2007 4
Banks Were Over-Leveraged VaR Underestimated Risk
Market Still Uses Risk Measures That Failed in 2008 Fat Tails Still A Problem Bimodal Data Also Ignored By Many
Modern Portfolio Theory Has Failed Investors Actual Data MPT
Diversification Strategies For Stocks Alone in 2008-09 Failed, But Adding Bonds Worked Very Well
Fed’s Response to Crisis = Massive Additions to Balance Sheet Central Banks Practicing Financial Repression
Markets Have Responded to Easy Money Policy Dramatically Making a Molehill Out of a Mountain
No One Likes Bonds, But Surprise! (They’re Still Doing Well)
The shortest distance to your goals is not a straight lineTed a. pavlovich 12
Timing Strategies Work Because Losses Are Much Smaller …And Bond Gains Offset Stock Losses
Market rally driven by p/e expansion DHEENU V. SIVALINGAM 17
Price/Earnings Ratio or PE • The price/earnings ratio or PE is a unit cost, much like the cost of a pound of coffee or a gallon of gas, which allows one to assess a price by comparing it with a typical, historical unit cost. You can certainly tell if a pound of coffee or gallon of gas is higher or lower than normal in price. In this case, it’s the cost of one dollar’s worth of that company’s earnings. PE expansion is an increase in that unit cost. 18
Most investors do not see P/E expansion as the lion's share of the market's 1982-2000 gains; Instead, they credit a robust economy, technological advances, productivity gains, and (of course!) earnings improvement. And all those elements did have an obvious impact, but they were responsible for a small portion of the performance. The biggest contribution these four elements had was not to the bottom line; rather, it was to investor psyches that gradually became willing to spend more per dollar of earnings than they had before. These factors allowed investors to rationalize higher prices. Now = 15.1 21
Bull markets are periods of P/E expansion. During Bulls, investors are willing to pay increasingly more for each dollar of earnings; • Bear markets are periods of P/E contraction. Investors demand more earnings for each dollar of share price they are willing to pay. • History shows that when the inflation is very low or very high, or interest rates decline, or when the deficit goes down, the P/E usually expands. 22
Ground hog day in the markets KEVIN M. WILSON 23
Ground Hog Day For Speculators Over-Confidence Typical of a Top 24
Stock Buybacks Have Supported Markets Also
Don’t Listen to Wall Street – They Always Tell You To Buy Bond Performance Has Matched Stocks But Is Reciprocal in Nature Timing Strategies Work By Managing Losses P/E Expansion Has Driven the Rally Lately Don’t Forget How the Last Fed-Induced Bubble Ended When the Next Decline Ends, A Huge Opportunity Will Follow Summary/q & a KEVIN M. WILSON 29
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