The U.S. stock market has been one of the strongest performers in the world since the financial crisis, but some question if its days of market leadership are numbered. This week’s guest is starting to look in battered down international markets. Gregg Fisher, a top rated financial advisor explains the diversification benefits of small company foreign stocks and international real estate.
WEALTHTRACK Episode #1118; Originally Broadcast on October 24, 2014
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GREGG FISHER
Founder & Chief Investment Officer, Gerstein Fisher
Talk to just about any CEO of an American corporation and they will tell you their first responsibility is to the shareholders, who are the true owners of the company. One of their top, if not the top priority is to maximize shareholder value. Not everyone agrees with that sentiment, but that’s a topic we will tackle next week on WEALTHTRACK
Major U.S. corporations take their mission very seriously. According to a recent article in Bloomberg, companies in the Standard and Poor’s 500 index, the who’s who of corporate America are poised to spend $914 billion on share buybacks and dividends this year, that’s about 95% of earnings.
Money returned to stockholders in the form of dividends and buybacks actually exceeded profits in the first quarter of this year and might have done so again in the third quarter.
Those policies have paid off for shareholders. According to Bloomberg, stocks with the most buybacks have gained more than 300% since the March ‘09 bottom, far exceeding the very strong returns of the overall market.
The pressure is only increasing to continue those types of stock boosting policies. Activist hedge funds have amassed war chests of more than $111 billion to invest in companies and pressure them to act.
For many reasons the U.S. stock market has been one of the strongest performers in the world since the financial crisis. But many question whether its days of market leadership are numbered.
This week’s WEALTHTRACK guest is one of those and is starting to look in battered down international markets for opportunities. He is also constantly adjusting his funds’ and his clients’ portfolios as conditions change.
He is Gregg Fisher, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of the independent investment management and advisory firm Gerstein Fisher, which he launched in 1993. It now has over $3 billion dollars under management. He has been named one of Barron’s Top 100 Financial Advisors, among other distinctions.
Fisher is portfolio manager of three funds, including the 4-star rated Gerstein Fisher Multi-Factor Growth Equity fund which he launched in 2010. It is in the top quartile of its large growth category for the last three years.
Among the topics we will cover this week are his multi-factor approach and why he is investing in foreign small company stocks and one other frequently overlooked sector.
In this week’s EXTRA feature, available on our website www.wealthtrack.com, Fisher
has some specific advice for millennials. He also shares his perspective on the sudden departure of bond legend, Bill Gross from PIMCO.
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Have a great weekend and make the week ahead a profitable and productive one.
Best regards,
Consuelo
CONSIDER BUYING AN INTERNATIONAL REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST OR REIT
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Vanguard Global ex-US Real Estate ETF (VNQI)
No Bookshelf titles this week.
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Buy global real estate securities
– Adds diversification to portfolios
No stock mentions in this episode.
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MILLENNIAL ADVICE
More than two decades ago a then twenty-something Gregg Fisher started his investment management and advisory firm, Gerstein Fisher to help his contemporaries and others manage their financial lives. Now a Barron’s Top 100 Financial Advisor with more than $3 billion under management he has some specific advice for millennials.
He also shared his perspective on the sudden departure of bond legend, Bill Gross from PIMCO and bond investing in general.
