5×5: Five articles summarised in five lines 🌟
- Lessons: Stay the course in bear markets
- Concepts: Two different things – volatility and risks
- Markets: Analyzing the bear global markets
- Strategy: How does trend following play in bear markets?
- Stock Talk: Why are AMC stocks struggling?
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We’ll remember but not fondly ☘️
- Bear markets are a given – you can’t escape them in your pursuit of creating wealth.
- In a bear market, smart long-term decisions often look foolish in the short term.
- Your decision making process is put to a stress test while your investments tumble down.
- If we are to enjoy long-run investment success, we need to be able to navigate such exacting periods.
- This article pinpoints, in 3 sentences or less, many features of a bear market.
Read More – What We Should Remember About Bear Markets
Of Volatility and Risk 🎯
- Volatility is often confused with risk and the other way around.
- Volatility encompasses the changes in the price of a security, a portfolio, or a market segment both on the upside and downside.
- Risk, on the other hand, means that investing in such security may not help you meet your long term goals.
- Risk should be the real worry of investors and not short term volatility in the prices of securities.
- Investing in a volatile instrument is fine until it helps you achieve your financial goals.
Read More – Risk, Not Volatility, Is the Real Enemy
Why so bearish, son? 😷
- There are 500 stocks in the S&P 500. 495 of them were down on 13th June 2022.
- For just the 12th time since 1950, the S&P 500 fell 1% on four consecutive days.
- Stocks & bond prices are falling while things are getting costlier (inflation).
- The yield on 2-year treasuries rose above the yield of 10-year treasuries which is not something you want to see.
- These are tough times for the market and they’ll get worse. Staying the course may be rewarding.
Read More – So Bearish it Hurts
Make the trend your friend 😇
- Trend following is a rules-based system that goes long or short basis market trends
- In a flat market, there are whipsaws – in, out, in, out, in, out – too many trades and you’re bleeding from a thousand little cuts in a market that’s gone nowhere.
- In a bull market, trend following can become a drag as against a buy & hold approach.
- But in a bear market, for wealth management purposes, trend following can be very helpful.
- It helps you capture the downside market movements too and make some alpha out of it. You’re not reduced to sitting ducks when the market falls.
Why are AMCs losing sheen? 🛠
- The earliest listed AMCs – HDFC and Nippon Life – used to trade at PE multiples of 40-50 times a couple of years back. They now trade at 25-28 times trailing earnings.
- The other key metric – yields, measured as a ratio of revenue to assets under management – has also declined for the listed players.
- For AMCs, reinvesting money back into the business does not necessarily bring growth. So they can’t compound their capital and have to pay out most of it.
- Regulators have also enforced lower TERs as the AUM rises resulting in decreased incomes of AMCs
- The move toward passive funds has also been impacting the income of active funds.
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