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January 22, 2019
Blog , The Portfolio Strategist - Terry Gardner

C.J. Lawrence Weekly – 2019 Outperformance May Be Found in Unlikely Places

The stock market is off to a good start in 2019. The rally began the day after Christmas and has continued through the first few weeks of January. Investors expecting a Santa Claus rally in December had been sorely disappointed by the lump of coal they received instead. But Santa l...

January 14, 2019
Blog , The Portfolio Strategist - Terry Gardner

C.J. Lawrence Weekly – Individual Investors Sell Stock and Bond Funds, While Institutional Investors Shun Stocks

Outflows from domestic equity mutual funds and exchange traded funds (ETFs) accelerated into year-end 2018. According to data from the Investment Company Institute (ICI), domestic equity funds experienced outflows of $105.5 billion in 2018, $30 billion of which flowed out in the fourth quarter. ...

December 10, 2018
Blog , The Portfolio Strategist - Terry Gardner

C.J. Lawrence Weekly – Overweight Communications Services Sector for Both Offense and Defense

Meanwhile, one sector that has been beaten down over the last year despite a good mix of both defensive and offensive characteristics is the recently created Communications Services Sector. It was formed this fall by S&P Global as part of their GICS (global industry classification system) sector re...

February 20, 2018
Blog , The Portfolio Strategist - Terry Gardner

C.J. Lawrence Weekly – Financials Sector is the Baby that Should be Put Back in the Bath

We made the point in a recent Weekly Market Comment that the shrinking US publicly traded company share count could be a contributing factor to the equity market’s long bull run. The same phenomenon can also contribute to stock price volatility on a short-term basis, as witnessed during the last t...

January 29, 2018
Blog , The Portfolio Strategist - Terry Gardner

C.J. Lawrence Weekly – Want to Buy Stocks? Get In Line.

But for the growing number of investors looking to build new, or add to existing, stock positions, finding attractively priced, highly liquid stocks to purchase is getting more challenging and competitive. The number of public companies listed on major U.S exchanges peaked in 1998 at around 7,500. A...

January 8, 2018
News & Media

Why Fund-Flow Stats Aren’t the Indicator They Used to Be

Smart investors used to be able to identify market tops and bottoms by watching the weekly flows of money into and out of mutual funds. Then came the stampede into exchange-traded funds, and the crystal ball for predicting market shifts grew cloudy. Because weekly flow data now measures not just mo...

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