Is It Time to Give Up Growth Stocks for Value?

With interest rates on the rise, is it time to focus on value and set growth aside? Chief Investment Officer Jim Lowell looked at the ongoing growth vs. value debate between in our recent webinar, DiversificationA strategy for managing investment risk by investing in a mixture of different investments. Since different asset classes face different risks, even if one type of asset declines in value, others may not. Is Dead…and Other Modern Myths.*

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Jim Lowell:

Growth stocksA stock whose issuing company is expected to grow at a significantly higher rate than the market. or value investing? Well, all investors like a good value. Let me just say the good news is that we write about this all the time. We speak about this frequently. We podcast about this topic. It’s easy to find our thinking on this. But in short, what we like most are the managers we invest in who know how to pursue growth stocksA stock whose issuing company is expected to grow at a significantly higher rate than the market. at discounted values or value stocksA stock that is statistically cheap as a multiple of its earnings or book value, as compared to the overall stock market. with growth opportunities.

It’s not an either/or. It’s really a blend of both across capitalization ranges—large, mid, small, domestic and foreign—that makes considerable sense to us. We want to be able to own what we think are the best ideas inside of our given portfolios, and we think that there are plenty of good opportunities on both sides of the ledger, be it value or growth.

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