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The average return doesn’t exist (2021 edition)

January 4, 2021by jsblokland Leave a comment

Welcome to this year’s update of the ‘average return doesn’t exist’ blog, revealing that the average return on equities is mostly a statistic, and is rarely seen in reality. However, […]

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EQUITIES, FINANCIAL MARKETS, TACTICAL ASSET ALLOCATION

The average return doesn’t exist (2020 edition)

January 9, 2020by jsblokland Leave a comment

Here’s this year’s update of the ‘average return doesn’t exist’ blog showing that the average return on equities is mostly a statistic, and is seldomly seen in reality. And last […]

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EQUITIES, FINANCIAL MARKETS, TACTICAL ASSET ALLOCATION

The average return doesn’t exist (2019 edition)

January 3, 2019by jsblokland 1 Comment

Every year I post an update of the ‘average return doesn’t exist’ blog to show that the average return on equities is mostly a statistic, and is seldomly seen in […]

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EQUITIES, FINANCIAL MARKETS, TACTICAL ASSET ALLOCATION

The Average Return doesn’t exist.

January 2, 2018by jsblokland Leave a comment

Ask a random stock market ‘guru’ at the beginning of the year what he or she expects what equities will do that year and you will probably get an answer […]

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EQUITIES, FINANCIAL MARKETS

Goldilocks Returns…

October 19, 2017by jsblokland Leave a comment

It’s official, Goldilocks is back on the stock market. At least according to the fund managers that participated in BofA Merrill Lynch’s Global Fund Manager Survey. For the first time […]

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EQUITIES, FINANCIAL MARKETS

The Average Return Doesn’t Exist!

January 3, 2017by jsblokland 1 Comment

Ask a random stock market ‘guru’ at the beginning of the year what he or she expects what equities will do that year and you will probably get an answer […]

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EQUITIES, FINANCIAL MARKETS, TACTICAL ASSET ALLOCATION

Week End Blog – China Rules!

August 28, 2015by jsblokland Leave a comment

How to start this Week End Blog? The picture below seems appropriate. After an already ugly end of last week, bears rushed back from the weekend to demonstrate their willingness […]

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FINANCIAL MARKETS, MACRO

The average return doesn’t exist!

July 21, 2015by jsblokland 5 Comments

Ask a random stock market ‘guru’ at the beginning of the year what he or she expects what equities will do that year and you will probably get an answer […]

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EQUITIES, FINANCIAL MARKETS

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