Expectations for Stock Market Gains After a Strong Decade

Expectations for Stock Market Gains After a Strong Decade

The U.S. stock market has had a remarkable run of gains over the last decade, leading many to question what we should expect from the markets in the years ahead. Equity Research Analyst Kate Austin discussed our 2020 market outlook in our recent quarterly webinar*: 2020 Conflicts—Impeachment, Tariffs & Global Dysfunction.

Please enjoy the excerpt below and click here for the full webinar replay to hear more.  

Kate Austin: As nice as it would be to have past performance really predict future success or disappointment, it doesn’t really work that way. Like [Director of Research] Jeff DeMaso showed earlier, a gain in the market is usually followed by more gains, but not always. So we find that the best way to construct our portfolios isn’t looking backward at what worked in the most recent past, but to create well-diversified portfolios that should help you capture most of the upside of the market while protecting you on the downside.

Kate Austin: And the managers that we use and invest alongside with tend to do just that. We like to use not only U.S. equities, which was what your question was about, but also international equities and of course a strong bond allocation.

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*Webinar recorded after the market closed on January 23, 2020.

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