Don Cassidy
Don Cassidy
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Like anything else, the time to buy them is when they look the scariest. When they've been going down, when rates have been rising, and you're afraid and there's the threat of recession. ... And if it's been fun for a while, you better think about getting out.
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In 2005, investors began to pay attention to gradual improvement in the Japanese economy aided by some long overdue government-driven reforms.
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If you're saying, 'I think this year China, or Japan, is the winning place,' well, you have to agonize over that decision more if you're choosing among mutual funds.
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This bull market is now entering its fourth year, and it is getting tired. The old leaders of this market -- energy and housing -- seem to be running out of gas.
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You can be too insular in your thinking. It could backfire big time.
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We and just about everybody else thought that large-cap funds would start to take over in the first quarter, but it didn't happen.
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This year the month's psychological climate also benefited from a solid rally in stocks that had begun in mid-October.
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We said it would be a stock-picker's year, and it was. Investors were particularly fickle and short-term driven.
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We see him as one more young man, like thousands, like millions who rather come live in the United States.
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We thought there'd be a shift to growth this year because value had been leading for five or six years, but we also thought there would be a shift to large caps, which clearly hasn't happened. Meanwhile, value-oriented sectors such as financial services, banks and brokers haven't been strong, another factor helping to drive growth over value.
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This probably isn't the time to go heavily into leveraged funds.
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Whenever you buy any kind of sector, you have to have the stomach for higher volatility.