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FINANCIAL THOUGHT LEADER ROB ARNOTT LIKES BUYING CHEAP ASSETS. WHERE HE IS FINDING THEM NOW?

Large-cap U.S growth stocks, particularly tech stocks have been the overwhelming winners of the last decade. They now dominate the market. The top ten S&P 500 stocks, including the FAANGs, account for more than 25% of the index’s total market value, a concentration that worries some market watchers because it is reminiscent of other market tops such as the dot-com bubble when internet stocks made up over 30% of the S&P and the credit bubble when banking stocks reached more than 20%.   

With the exception of short-lived spurts value stocks, small-cap stocks and international stocks have badly lagged. 

This week’s guest believes the days of this concentrated outperformance by large-cap growth stocks are numbered and suggests some underloved and under-owned alternatives. He is financial thought leader, innovator, and investor Robert Arnott, Chairman of the Board of Research Affiliates, which he founded in 2002 as a self-described “research-intensive asset management firm that focuses on innovative products.” 

Among the innovations that he has pioneered is fundamental indexation: building indexes with stocks based on the size of their fundamentals, such as sales, profits, cash flow, book value, and dividends – not their stock price. Research Affiliates has created numerous fundamental indexes for a wide variety of markets and asset classes around the world. 

Arnott will discuss why he believes this long era of U.S. large-cap growth dominance could be coming to an end and what could take its place. 

WEALTHTRACK Episode #1811; Originally Broadcast on September 10, 2021

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INTRO ASSET ALLOCATION INTERACTIVE:

In 2002 financial innovator Rob Arnott launched one of the first all asset mutual funds, the PIMCO All Asset Fund. Since then his research-intensive firm, Research Affiliates has created a free website to project forward returns for numerous asset classes.

On a recent WEALTHTRACK Payden & Rygel’s Emerging Market bond specialist, Kristin Ceva brought us up to speed on opportunities in this vast but little understood market. Watch the episode.

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MAKE SURE YOU ARE TRULY DIVERSIFIED

  • Not truly diversified until you own something that makes you uncomfortable
  • Uncomfortable usually means: unpopular, underperforming and cheap
  • “Uncomfortable” assets today include:
    • Value stocks
    • Emerging markets stocks and bonds

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PIMCO RAE PLUS EMG Instl (PEFIX)

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PIMCO RAE Emerging Markets Instl (PEIFX)

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Schwab Fundamental Emerg Mkts Lg Co ETF (FNDE)

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Freedom 100 Emerging Markets ETF (FRDM)

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CAUTION AHEAD

Research Affiliates Founder & Chairman Rob Arnott says there are bubbles galore in the market and a looming geopolitical risk with potentially catastrophic consequences.