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December 13, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Volatile Underbelly of Stock Prices
December 6, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: UK Election Reflects a Failure of Imagination
November 27, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: Will Politics Matter in 2020?
November 22, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: Don’t Tempt the VIX
November 15, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Oddly Durable Charms of the Perma-Bear
November 8, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: Earnings Kabuki and Valuation Math
November 7, 2019 Webinar for Small DC Employers: How to Get the Most from DC Health Link (Recording)
November 1, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: Calm Waters Ahead (For Now, Probably)
October 25, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Relentless Benchmark
October 22, 2019 Arian Vojdani Featured on Bloomberg Radio Segment
October 22, 2019 Webinar for Small DC Employers: How to Get the Most from DC Health Link (Invite)
October 21, 2019 Arian Vojdani Quoted in CNBC.com Article
October 18, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: No More Inversion…For Now
October 11, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: Melt-Up In the Making?
October 4, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Unicorns Are Not Alright
September 30, 2019 Arian Vojdani on Cheddar TV
September 30, 2019 Arian Vojdani on Yahoo Finance
September 27, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: Political Drama and Market Indifference
September 20, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: Recession? What Recession?
September 13, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Great Rotation That Wasn’t (Again)
September 9, 2019 Masood’s Newest ‘The Smarter Investor’ Piece
September 6, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Limits of Crazy
August 30, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Recession Trade
August 28, 2019 Nonprofits Have the Unique Ability to Supplement Healthcare Savings in Retirement
August 23, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Gold Bugs Go Institutional
August 19, 2019 Arian Vojdani featured on BNN Bloomberg
August 16, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: Managing Through Uncertainty
August 9, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: What We Mean When We Talk About Volatility
August 8, 2019 Webinar for Nonprofit Plan Sponsors: How to Fix Your Plans with Individual Annuity Contracts (IACs) [Recording]
August 2, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Economy’s Mixed Message
July 26, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: Japan Led Us All to Wonderland
July 23, 2019 Building and Keeping an Emergency Fund
July 19, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: Currency Wars, the New Trade Wars
July 12, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Cost of Easy Money
July 11, 2019 Webinar for Nonprofit Plan Sponsors: How to Fix Your Plans with Individual Annuity Contracts (IACs) [Invitation]
July 3, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: Earnings May Matter in 2H19
June 28, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: Greenbacks in Wonderland
June 21, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Insurance Cut and the Melt-Up
June 21, 2019 Masood’s Latest US News & World Report “Smarter Investor” Article
June 20, 2019 Arian Vojdani quoted in Yahoo! Finance piece
June 14, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: Risk-Off, With a Side Helping of Large Cap Equities
June 14, 2019 Arian Vojdani featured on Yahoo Finance
June 7, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Problem of Non-Quantifiable Risk
June 6, 2019 How Your Organization’s Bottom Line is Impacted When Employees Don’t Save Enough for Retirement (Recording)
May 31, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: Strange Curves
May 24, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: Volatility, The Good and The Bad
May 20, 2019 Chris Schaefer quoted in CNBC.com 401(k) Focused Article
May 17, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: Seven and Ten In China
May 10, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Performance Art of Trade Talks
May 10, 2019 Arian Vojdani quoted in CNBC.com Markets Piece
May 9, 2019 MVCM Quarterly Newsletter Q1 2019
May 8, 2019 Webinar: How Delayed Employee Retirement is Hurting Your Bottom Line
May 3, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Most Important Metric Nobody Cares About
April 26, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: Could Inflation Be the Wild Card Spoiler?
April 18, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: As Goes the Property Sector, So Goes China
April 12, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Bull Is In the Eye of the Beholder
April 9, 2019 Arian Vojdani quoted in US News & World Report Article
April 5, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: What To Expect When You’re Expecting…Bond Returns
April 2, 2019 Webinar for 403(b) Plan Sponsors: How to Ensure that You’re Covering Your Bases (Recording)
March 29, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: Back to Wonderland
March 29, 2019 Arian Vojdani quoted in CNBC.com Markets Piece
March 22, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: Something’s Gotta Give
March 20, 2019 2019: The Year Ahead
March 20, 2019 MVCM Quarterly Newsletter Q4 2018
March 20, 2019 MVCM Quarterly Newsletter Q3 2018
March 20, 2019 MVCM Quarterly Newsletter Q2 2018
March 20, 2019 MVCM Quarterly Newsletter Q1 2018
March 20, 2019 MVCM Quarterly Newsletter Q4 2017
March 20, 2019 MVCM Quarterly Newsletter Q3 2017
March 20, 2019 MVCM Quarterly Newsletter Q2 2017
March 20, 2019 MVCM Quarterly Newsletter Q1 2017
March 15, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: The EU’s Weak Link
March 8, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: Sometimes Bad News Is Actually Bad News
March 4, 2019 Webinar for 403(b) Plan Sponsors: How to Ensure that You’re Covering Your Bases (Invitation)
March 1, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Value Investor’s Lament
February 22, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: Inflation Never?
February 20, 2019 MV Technical Market Comment: Greece, Europe and Global Asset Markets
February 15, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: Return of the Corridor Trade?
February 14, 2019 Research Insights
February 8, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: Troubled Technicals and Hyper Headlines
February 1, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: And There It Is, the Powell Put
January 25, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: Why So Glum, Davos Man?
January 25, 2019 Arian Vojdani Quoted in Reuters Market Piece
January 18, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: Breadknives and the Algos That Make Them
January 11, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: Earnings Season Darling Or Another Dead Cat Bounce?
January 4, 2019 MV Weekly Market Flash: Our 2019 Market Outlook
December 28, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Rule of 19.8 Percent
December 21, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Breathe In, Breathe Out, Repeat
December 14, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: China’s Rebalancing, Interrupted
December 7, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Slowdown, Recession or Recession-Plus?
December 5, 2018 Retirement Plan Sponsor Webinar: The Fiduciary Alphabet Soup of Retirement Plans: What Does it Mean? (Recording)
November 30, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Does the Fed Put Still Exist?
November 21, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Theresa May and the Turkeys
November 16, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Defensive Rotation’s Uphill Climb
November 9, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Relief, Risk and the Big Unknown
November 2, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Four Octobers
October 31, 2018 Chris Schaefer Quoted in Investopedia Retirement Piece
October 26, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Narrative Battle Comes into Focus
October 23, 2018 Chris Schaefer featured in NBCNews.com Article
October 19, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Italian Debt Job
October 12, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Four Takeaways from the Pullback
October 5, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Bonds Away, We’re Okay
October 4, 2018 Nonprofit Retirement Plan Sponsor Webinar: Moving Away from a Do It Yourself Approach (Recording)
September 28, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Wages, Prices and Rates
September 28, 2018 Arian Vojdani quoted in US News & World Report Article Focusing on Millennial Investing
September 21, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Sector Spaghetti
September 19, 2018 Arian Vojdani Featured in NBCNews.com Article Focusing on Millenial Finance
September 14, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Law of Gravity, Post-Crisis
September 12, 2018 Nonprofit Retirement Plan Sponsor Webinar: Moving Away from a Do It Yourself Approach (Invitation)
September 7, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Four Rate Hikes and an EM Funk
September 6, 2018 Masood Vojdani’s Newest Contribution to US News & World Report’s ‘The Smarter Investor’
August 31, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Fall Event Risk Outlook
August 24, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: What Record Bull?
August 22, 2018 Arian Vojdani Featured in Fox Business Article Focusing on Tips on How to Start Investing
August 22, 2018 Webinar for Retirement Plan Sponsors: Unraveling the Complexity+Confusion to Get More from Advisors (Recording)
August 17, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Pastor and the Peril
August 15, 2018 Chris Schaefer’s Op-Ed Piece Featured on BenefitsPro
August 10, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Public Markets, Private Markets and Asset Allocation
August 9, 2018 Arian Vojdani on CNBC’s The Rundown
August 3, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Great Rotation That Wasn’t
July 27, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Soybeans and Sustainable Growth
July 20, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Cash Equivalent’s New, Old Look
July 13, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Flat Curves and Rising Markets
July 12, 2018 Webinar for Retirement Plan Sponsors: Unraveling the Complexity+Confusion to Get More from Advisors (Invitation)
July 10, 2018 Arian Vojdani quoted in article focused money lessons from the Y-Gen
July 6, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: A Second Half of Contradictions
June 29, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: China In Trouble For the Right Reasons
June 29, 2018 Arian Vojdani quoted in CNBC.com Markets Piece
June 22, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: The World’s Most Loved, Least Useful Stock Index
June 15, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Technocracy in Trouble
June 12, 2018 Masood’s June Contribution to US News & World Report
June 8, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Volatility Heads for the Valley
June 7, 2018 Upgrading Non-Profit Retirement Plans: Upgrading IAC Plans to Open Architecture (Part 3 of 3)
June 1, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Another Summer of Europe
May 30, 2018 Arian Vojdani quoted in Investopedia article discussing the Fiduciary Rule
May 25, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: A World of Pain for Consumer Staples
May 25, 2018 Arian Vojdani quoted in Reuters Markets Article
May 22, 2018 Upgrading Non-Profit Retirement Plans: Strengthening Your Plan with Advisory Services (Part 2 of 3)
May 18, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Baby Blues
May 11, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Populists March on Rome, Investors (Mostly) Shrug
May 10, 2018 Retirement Plan Workshop for Nonprofit Plan Sponsors: May 31st, 2018
May 8, 2018 Upgrading Non-Profit Retirement Plans: Limitations of Individual Annuity Contracts (Part 1 of 3)
May 8, 2018 Masood’s Latest Smarter Investor Contribution
May 4, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Eurozone Falling Out of Sync
May 1, 2018 Not-For-Profit Plan Sponsor Webinar: How to Upgrade Your Existing Plan (Recording)
April 27, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Well-Tempered Correction
April 20, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Emerging Markets Resilient, But Currencies Could Spell Trouble
April 19, 2018 Arian Vojdani quoted in the Wall Street Journal
April 13, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Volatility Is In the Eye of the Beholder
April 6, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: 1-2-3-4, I Declare a Trade War
April 3, 2018 Not-For-Profit Plan Sponsor Webinar: How to Upgrade Your Existing Plan (Invitation)
March 29, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: When Tech Sneezes, the Market Catches Cold
March 23, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Carlyle, Tolstoy and the 2018 Investor
March 19, 2018 Masood’s Latest Smarter Investor Contribution
March 16, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Fork in the Road
March 9, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Bad News Good, Good News Better
March 5, 2018 Arian Vojdani quoted in Reuters
March 2, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Ides of March Come Early This Year
February 23, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Hope Accelerates – Will Reality Follow?
February 16, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Dollar Is Sitting Out This Party
February 9, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Peril and the Promise of Higher Rates
February 5, 2018 2018: The Year Ahead
February 2, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Another Miss for Productivity
January 31, 2018 Chris Schaefer Quoted in NBCNews.com Article
January 30, 2018 Masood’s Latest Smarter Investor Contribution
January 26, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: A Market of Wandering Cats
January 19, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Our 2018 Investment Thesis
January 12, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Exuberance and Edginess
January 5, 2018 MV Weekly Market Flash: Bomb Cyclones and Melt-Ups, Hello 2018!
January 3, 2018 Katrina Lamb Quoted in the Wall Street Journal
January 2, 2018 Arian Vojdani Quoted in the New York Post
December 29, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: People Are Calendar-centric; Markets Are Not
December 29, 2017 Arian Vojdani on Fox Business News
December 29, 2017 Arian Vojdani featured in Reuters Article
December 22, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Frothing at the Bit(coin)
December 15, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Yellen’s Lesson, Powell’s Challenge
December 8, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: The China Syndrome, Again
December 6, 2017 Masood’s December Contribution to US News & World Report
December 1, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Groundhog Day in December
November 22, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Turkeys of 2017
November 17, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Still Quiet on the Investment Grade Front (Junk Jitters Notwithstanding)
November 16, 2017 Taking Time Off? Here’s Some Food for Thought Before You Do
November 10, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: More Fuel in the Tank for Energy Stocks?
November 7, 2017 Chris Schaefer quoted on CNBC.com
November 3, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Tax Mania!
October 31, 2017 Masood’s Latest Entry to US News & World Report’s ‘The Smarter Investor’
October 31, 2017 Chris Schaefer Quoted on TheStreet.com
October 27, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Bond Bull Goes for the Thousand Year Gold
October 24, 2017 Arian Vojdani on Fox Business News
October 20, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Market’s Next Big Non-Event
October 13, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: What’s Next for Emerging Markets?
October 6, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Sunny Skies and Swan Songs
September 29, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Reflation Pony Returns
September 22, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Inflation, Economists and the Rest of Us
September 15, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Will the Market Party Like it’s 1987?
September 15, 2017 Katrina Lamb Quoted in MarketWatch Article
September 11, 2017 Masood’s Newest Entry to US News & World Report’s ‘The Smarter Investor’
September 8, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Giving Up on the Greenback?
September 5, 2017 Arian Vojdani Quoted in US News & World Report Article
September 1, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Marathon Bull
August 31, 2017 Arian Vojdani Quoted in MarketWatch Article
August 29, 2017 Don’t Let Your Skepticism of the Markets Keep You from Investing
August 25, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Competing Narratives for Back to School Week
August 18, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Rocky Mountain High
August 17, 2017 Chris Schaefer quoted in TheStreet.com Articles
August 11, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Drifts and Shocks
August 10, 2017 Katrina Lamb Quoted in Reuters Article
August 4, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Bonds and the Limits of Historical Data
July 28, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Markets and Political Risk
July 21, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Copper, the New Texas Tea?
July 21, 2017 Katrina Lamb Quoted in US News & World Report
July 14, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Summer of Confusion
July 14, 2017 Masood’s Latest US News & World Report Contribution
July 7, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: 2017 Halftime Report
July 5, 2017 Katrina Lamb Quoted in Wall Street Journal Markets Piece
June 30, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Prices, Rates and the Lowflation Era
June 23, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Confusing Times in Emerging Markets
June 16, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Market’s Leadership Problem
June 9, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Brexit Shrouded by (London) Fog
June 2, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Value Effect’s Time of Troubles
May 26, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Stocks Are From Mars, Bonds Are From Venus
May 19, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Inconsequential Tremors
May 18, 2017 Arian Vojdani quoted on CNBC.com
May 12, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Fed and the Spread
May 10, 2017 Masood’s Newest US News & World Report Contribution
May 8, 2017 You Received a Tax Refund, What Now?
May 5, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Popular Data, Invisible Data
April 28, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Hard, the Soft and the Ugly
April 25, 2017 To Uber or Not to Uber: When to Stop Sharing & Start Buying
April 24, 2017 Should You Pay Down Student Debt or Save for Retirement First?
April 21, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Eurozone Is Priced for More of the Same
April 13, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: End of the Complacency Trade?
April 13, 2017 Chris Schaefer featured in CNBC.com Retirement Article
April 7, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Noise and Signals in the Labor Market
April 6, 2017 Arian Vojdani quoted on CNBC.com
March 31, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Dog Days of Spring
March 31, 2017 Masood’s March Contribution to US News & World Report’s “The Smarter Investor” Blog
March 24, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Oddities Down the Risk Frontier
March 17, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Peak Populism?
March 15, 2017 Chris Schaefer quoted in US News & World Report
March 15, 2017 Katrina Lamb quoted in Bankrate Article
March 15, 2017 Masood’s Latest US News & World Report Contribution
March 10, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Crunch Time for “Secular Stagnation”
March 3, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Japan and the Fifty Percent Curse
February 24, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Some Vague Hints of Discontent
February 17, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Political Risk and the Cloak of Invisibility
February 10, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Let the Real Brexit Madness Begin
February 7, 2017 Arian Vojdani featured in US News & World Report article
February 6, 2017 2017: The Year Ahead
February 3, 2017 Arian Vojdani quoted in Reuters
February 3, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: A Contrarian Case for Europe?
February 1, 2017 Arian Vojdani on CNBC World’s “The RunDown”
January 31, 2017 Masood’s Latest US News & World Report Contribution
January 27, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: GDP Matters, Productivity Matters More
January 20, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Shape-Shifters
January 13, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: Our 2017 Investment Thesis
January 6, 2017 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Valuation Ceiling’s Moment of Truth
January 3, 2017 Arian Vojdani quoted in International Business Times Article
December 31, 2016 MVCM Quarterly Newsletter December 31st, 2016
December 30, 2016 Katrina Lamb featured in US News & World Report Focusing on 2017 Outlook
December 30, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Dr. Pangloss’s Market
December 28, 2016 Masood’s Newest US News & World Report Contribution
December 23, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Magic Numbers and Animal Spirits
December 16, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Return of the Dot-Plotters
December 9, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Fiscal Policy and Its Limits
December 5, 2016 Masood’s Latest US News & World Report Contribution
December 2, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Predictions Were 2016’s Biggest Loser
November 23, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Melt-Up Has Arrived
November 18, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Infrastructure-Reflation Mirage
November 11, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: One Question Answered, Three More On Tap
November 4, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Apocalypse Where? The Case for (Guarded) Optimism
October 31, 2016 Masood’s Newest US News & World Report Contribution
October 28, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Quarterly Diversions and the Long Term Growth Mystery
October 21, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: A Whole Lot of Nothing
October 17, 2016 Arian Vojdani quoted on CNBC.com
October 14, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Oil Smooths the October Glide Path
October 14, 2016 MVCM Quarterly Newsletter: September 30, 2016
October 7, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Fat Fingers and the Wisdom of Crowds
September 30, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: New Adventures of the Old Corridor
September 29, 2016 Arian Vojdani on CNBC World Street Signs
September 27, 2016 Chris Schaefer Appointed to Lead Growing Retirement Practice at MVF
September 23, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: What We Learned from Policy Week
September 16, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: How Hard Is the Valuation Ceiling?
September 9, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: A Central Bank Declaration of Independence?
September 7, 2016 Masood featured in a Wall Street Journal Article Focusing on Yield
September 7, 2016 Masood featured in a Wall Street Journal Article
September 2, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Here We Go
September 1, 2016 Arian Vojdani quoted in US News & World Report Article
August 29, 2016 Masood’s August ‘The Smarter Investor’ Contribution
August 26, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Janet Yellen’s Long-Term Angst
August 19, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Flash Crash of ’62, and Other Bear Market Anomalies
August 12, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Another Whiplash Week (and Month, and Year) for Oil
August 11, 2016 MVF Research Special Comment: Presidents, Politics and the Market
August 10, 2016 Arian Vojdani Quoted in CNBC.com Markets Piece
August 10, 2016 Katrina Lamb Quoted in The Wall Street Journal
August 9, 2016 Katrina Lamb Quoted in MarketWatch Article Discussing Oil
August 5, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Event Risk Italiano
July 29, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Consumers Spend, Businesses Save, Stocks Shrug
July 28, 2016 Masood’s July Entry for US News & World Report’s ‘The Smarter Investor’
July 22, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: It’s Quiet at the VIX…Too Quiet?
July 15, 2016 MVCM Quarterly Newsletter: June 30, 2016
July 15, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: When September Comes
July 8, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Trading Places
July 6, 2016 Katrina Lamb featured on NPR’s ‘Marketplace’
June 29, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: That Seventies Market
June 24, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: And Then There Were 27
June 21, 2016 Masood’s Newest ‘Smarter Investor’ Contribution
June 17, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Tempest in a (British) Teapot
June 15, 2016 MV Research Insights: 2016 Halftime Report
June 10, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Ten Year Bunds at the Event Horizon
June 3, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: A Picasso Jobs Report
June 2, 2016 Arian Vojdani featured on Bloomberg’s The Advantage
June 2, 2016 Masood’s Newest ‘The Smarter Investor’ Contribution
May 27, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Risk in the Summertime
May 20, 2016 Arian Vojdani Quoted on CNN Money
May 20, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Bank of Japan Goes Full Hedge Fund
May 13, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Mopey Retailers, Perky Consumers
May 6, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Jobs OK, Productivity Not So Much
April 29, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: The BoJ’s “Bazooka” Backfires
April 27, 2016 Masood Vojdani’s Latest US News & World Report “The Smarter Investor” Post
April 22, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Fifth Time’s the Charm at the Valuation Ceiling?
April 15, 2016 Masood Quoted on MainStreet
April 15, 2016 Katrina Quoted in Kiplinger
April 15, 2016 MVCM Quarterly Newsletter: March 31, 2016
April 15, 2016 2016: The Year Ahead
April 15, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: China Goes Back to the Sugar Fix
April 8, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Bovespa Bounce
April 1, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Learning to Love the Slow-Growth Recovery
March 25, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Underperforming (Non-US) World
March 24, 2016 Masood’s Newest US News & World Report post
March 18, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Welcome Back to the Corridor
March 17, 2016 Katrina Quoted in MarketWatch
March 11, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Quality Rally, We Hardly Knew Ye
March 4, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Still a Long Way to Go for EMs
February 26, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Nice Rally, But Don’t Get Too Comfortable
February 19, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Wages, Prices and the Fed’s Trilemma
February 12, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: NIRP Nihilism
February 11, 2016 Katrina Lamb quoted in Reuters
February 9, 2016 Why Investors Should Be Sleeping Easy “Smarter Investor” Blog Post by Masood
February 5, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Headlines Heading South
January 29, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Kuroda Comes to Wonderland (Sort Of)
January 27, 2016 2016: The Year Ahead
January 22, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Slow Burn Pullback
January 15, 2016 MVCM Quarterly Newsletter: December 31, 2015
January 15, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: 2016 Investment Thesis: Executive Summary
January 8, 2016 MV Weekly Market Flash: Think Before You Panic—Lessons from 1997-98
December 31, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: 2015 Markets in Review: Not Great, Could Have Been Worse
December 18, 2015 3 Key Considerations for Year End Financial Planning Article by Masood
December 18, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Five Observations for a Post-12/16 World
December 11, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: 203 and Counting
December 7, 2015 Katrina Lamb – MarketWatch
December 4, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: One of Those Weeks
November 30, 2015 Katrina Lamb – MarketWatch
November 25, 2015 Masood Featured In Private Asset Management Magazine
November 25, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Giving Thanks
November 20, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Adele and the Gross Domestic Product
November 18, 2015 Masood Vojdani – The Street
November 13, 2015 Katrina Lamb – Bloomberg
November 13, 2015 Masood Speaks on CNBC
November 13, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Volatility: Peaks, Valleys and Mesas
November 6, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Hello, Rate Hike
October 30, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Presidential Year Curse, and Other Popular Delusions
October 23, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Quality Rally or Melt-Up?
October 19, 2015 Read Masood’s Newest Blog Post on US News & World Report
October 16, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Two Cheers for China’s Consumers
October 15, 2015 MVCM Quarterly Newsletter: September 30, 2015
October 9, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Oil Rally: The Real Deal or Another False Dawn?
October 2, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Jobs and the Limits of Monetary Policy
September 25, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Pullbacks of a Feather…
September 24, 2015 Masood Vojdani featured on CNBC’s ‘The Rundown’
September 18, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Fed At the Credibility Cliff
September 15, 2015 Masood Vojdani Now a Contributor to US News “The Smarter Investor”
September 11, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Emerging Markets: An Unconvincing Quarter Century
September 4, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Goldilocks Versus the Bears
September 3, 2015 Masood Vojdani featured on CNBC’s ‘The Rundown’
August 28, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Five Things We Learned This Week at the Crazy Farm
August 21, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Large Cap Fortress Breached
August 14, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: China, Reserve Club Dreams and the Fed
August 7, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Summer of Misery for Commodities
July 31, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: And Now…The Dog Days of Summer
July 24, 2015 MV Special Midyear Comment: The Current State of the Markets
July 17, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Economic Consequences of the (Eurozone) Peace
July 15, 2015 MVCM Quarterly Newsletter: June 30, 2015
July 10, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Yet Another Week of Crises Deferred
July 6, 2015 Masood Vojdani featured on CNBC World
July 6, 2015 MV Technical Market Comment: Greece, Europe and Global Asset Markets
July 2, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Not Dead Yet: Dividend Stocks in a Rising Rate World
June 26, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Euro Standard
June 19, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: …Baby One More Time – Party Like It’s 1998!
June 12, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Interest Rates and your Bond Portfolio
June 8, 2015 Masood Vojdani featured on CNBC
June 5, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Rate Hike? Buy the Pullback
May 29, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Reversing Reversals
May 22, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Another Summer of Tranquility, or Peaks Ahead?
May 18, 2015 Masood Vojdani featured in MainStreet
May 15, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Japan – Halfway to Zero
May 8, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Stunted Growth?
May 1, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Meh Market
April 24, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Brent Breaks Out – More Upside Ahead?
April 17, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Fed Wars: Rosengren v. Bullard
April 15, 2015 MVCM Quarterly Newsletter: March 31, 2015
April 10, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Emerging Markets: In Search of Lost Growth
April 3, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Tricky Currents Ahead
March 27, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Small Caps: Dollar Haven or Danger Zone?
March 20, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Kabuki in the Eccles Building
March 13, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Currency Conundrums
March 6, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Beware the Ides of March
February 27, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: NASDAQ Fever, v2.0
February 23, 2015 Masood Vojdani featured on CNBC.com
February 20, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Look Who’s Growing, Too
February 13, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: A Tale of Two Oils
February 6, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Growth Trumps Rates?
January 30, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Volatility in 2015: Peaks and More Peaks
January 23, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Lower for Longer
January 22, 2015 2015: The Year Ahead
January 20, 2015 Katrina Lamb Quoted in the Wall Street Journal
January 16, 2015 MV Weekly Market Flash: Retail Sales Slowdown
January 15, 2015 MVCM Quarterly Newsletter: December 31, 2014
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May 16, 2014 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Split Market: How Will It Un-split?
May 9, 2014 MV Weekly Market Flash: Send in The Crowds
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April 25, 2014 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Strange Case of European Bonds
April 18, 2014 MV Weekly Market Flash: Japan: Is the Sun Finally Rising?
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April 11, 2014 MV Weekly Market Flash: Sector Stories
April 4, 2014 MV Weekly Market Flash: From the Eurobond to the “Flash Boys”
March 28, 2014 MV Weekly Market Flash: Candy Crush: End of the Silly Season?
March 21, 2014 MV Weekly Market Flash: Utilities: The Wild Ride Continues
March 18, 2014 MV Research Insights: The Anatomy of Pullbacks
March 14, 2014 MV Weekly Market Flash: Event Risk Is Back
March 7, 2014 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Winter of Economic Uncertainty
March 7, 2014 Masood Vojdani on “How to make $1 million last”
February 28, 2014 MV Weekly Market Flash: China’s Currency Challenge
February 21, 2014 MV Weekly Market Flash: Ukraine, Markets and the Geopolitical X-Factor
February 19, 2014 Understanding the ‘HR Gap’
February 14, 2014 MV Weekly Market Flash: What’s Next for Emerging Markets?
February 7, 2014 MV Weekly Market Flash: Volatility Gap Due To Close?
February 4, 2014 Who is ‘MyRA’?
January 31, 2014 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Market and the Economy
January 24, 2014 MV Weekly Market Flash: Return to Risk-Off?
January 17, 2014 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Vanishing Trade Deficit
January 15, 2014 2014: The Year Ahead
January 10, 2014 MV Weekly Market Flash: Jobs and the Fog of Uncertainty
January 7, 2014 MV Financial Launches New Website
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December 27, 2013 MV Weekly Market Flash: 2013: The Year In Review
December 20, 2013 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Price of Certainty
December 13, 2013 MV Weekly Market Flash: Where’s the December Effect?
December 6, 2013 MV Weekly Market Flash: Economic Cheer vs. Taper Tantrums
November 27, 2013 MV Weekly Market Flash: Giving Thanks
November 22, 2013 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Mystique of Round Numbers
November 15, 2013 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Perils of the Financial Tabloids
November 8, 2013 MV Weekly Market Flash: With a Tweet and a Prayer
November 1, 2013 MV Weekly Market Flash: Growth Markets and False Dawns
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October 4, 2013 MV Weekly Market Flash: Event Risk…and Relief Rallies
September 27, 2013 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Curious Case of the Volatility Gap
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September 13, 2013 MV Weekly Market Flash: Steady Tack into Taper Week
September 6, 2013 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Fed’s Jobs Dilemma
August 30, 2013 MV Weekly Market Flash: Thirty Days Has September
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August 16, 2013 MV Weekly Market Flash: The Inflation Question
August 9, 2013 MV Weekly Market Flash: Is The “China Turn” At Hand?
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June 27, 2013 MV Weekly Market Flash:The Bond Bear’s Shadow
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June 6, 2013 MV Weekly Market Flash: Japanese Equities Fall…and Fall…And Fall
May 30, 2013 MV Weekly Market Flash: From “Risk On, Risk Off” to “Risk Here, Risk There”
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April 24, 2013 MVCM Midweek Market Comment: Apple Embraces the Earnings Culture
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April 12, 2013 MVCM Quarterly Newsletter: March 31, 2013
April 4, 2013 MVCM Midweek Market Comment: What’s Up with Emerging Markets?
March 21, 2013 MVCM Midweek Market Comment: Cyprus: Fury Unites the 1% and the 99%
February 21, 2013 MVCM Midweek Market Comment: Catalysts
February 13, 2013 1527: Hello, Goodbye?
February 7, 2013 MVCM Midweek Market Comment: Flirting With the Bulls
January 23, 2013 2013: The Year Ahead
December 30, 2012 2012 Year in Review: The Year of Living on the Edge
December 19, 2012 MVCM Midweek Market Comment: Happy Birthday to You, ETP’s!
November 21, 2012 MVCM Midweek Market Comment: Reasons to be Thankful
November 7, 2012 Election’s Over: What Happens Next?
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MV Weekly Market Flash: The Volatile Underbelly of Stock Prices

It’s that most wonderful time of the year…for pundits eager to tell us What It All Meant over the past twelve months. This year has the added bonus feature of being the end of a decade. Hard to believe, but the Tenacious (or Tumultuous, or just plain Terrific/Terrible, take your pick) Teens are coming to a close and we’re about to enter the Twenties for the first time since Scott and Zelda (Fitzgerald) gulped bathtub gin and danced in the Plaza Hotel fountain. What does the decade have in store? There is no shortage of opinions among the financial chattering class. We’ll take this opportunity to weigh in on some of the structural features in place that may or may not be challenging to traditional asset classes as the new decade gets underway.

Decomposing Prices

Bond prices are relatively simple equations: if you know the inputs of coupon, market rate and time to maturity then figuring out the price is just a set of taps into your calculator. Stock prices do not work like that. But there are ways to decompose stock prices into their constituent parts. Doing so can help you understand what drives stock price trends over a long period of time – like, say, a calendar decade.

An investor’s total return on a stock investment is simply dividends received plus (or minus) capital appreciation. Dividends are fairly straightforward. The average annual dividend yield on stocks in the S&P 500 is around two percent and is not likely to vary much from that level for the foreseeable future. No mystery there.

Capital appreciation is the joker in the deck. It requires some measurement tools, none of which are perfect. But the price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio is one of the most common ways to understand the drivers of price trends, and it can be a useful diagnostic tool if the measurement period is long enough. It’s a simple enough formula: the price per share at a single point in time divided by the earnings per share for the most recent financial reporting period (earnings are typically reported on a quarterly basis).

Earnings and the Multiplier

When we look at stock price trends through a P/E ratio prism we are essentially breaking the trend into two component parts. First, there is the earnings growth component. Consider the chart below, which shows the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for S&P 500 earnings per share for each decade since the 1940s.  You will see that the most recent two decades have been outliers in terms of average growth.


Source: Robert Shiller Online Database, econ.yale.edu

We also show the P/E ratio for these decades, and here is where it gets tricky. Many analysts look at the P/E ratio as a way to express what an investor is willing to pay for a dollar’s worth of earnings. After all, that is literally what the formula states. Look at the average P/E for the 2010-19 period of 19.5 times. That means that investors over this period paid, on average, $19.50 for every $1.00 of earnings per share in the S&P 500.

But in the previous decade, 2000-09, the P/E was a sky-high 31.4 times – by far the highest level in this entire span of almost eighty years. Were investors really willing to pay that much more for a dollar of earnings in that decade than any time before or since? The answer is no – and here is where we call out the “volatile underbelly” reference in our title above.

The 2000s was a tale of three very unusual events. The first was the peak of the dot-com mania that crested in March 2000. Valuations were in the stratosphere because of the top line, price. Investors really were willing to pay insane multiples of just about anything in the mania that swung into full force in the late 1990s. But by the end of 2000 there was a different force at play. Corporate earnings were starting to fall drastically as the tech slide took hold. In 2001 S&P 500 earnings fell by 50 percent from January to December. In fact, earnings fell faster than stock prices were falling, and that pushed up the P/E ratio.

That same dynamic was in play during the latter part of the decade. Stock prices collapsed during the Great Recession, but earnings collapsed even more – by 18 percent in 2007 and then a whopping 77 percent in 2008. Again, the mathematics of this had the effect of inflating, not compressing, the P/E ratio. It had nothing to do with investor sentiment, which was pretty miserable by the end of the decade. It had to do with the volatility of both share price movements and earnings playing out in real time.

Lessons for Crystal Ball-Gazers

Here’s why we went through this little exercise. There is quite a bit of discussion in the financial press this week postulating that the 2020s will be a very challenging decade for historical-type returns on traditional asset classes. One of the arguments being made is that companies will have a hard time matching the earnings growth they enjoyed in the 2010s. At the same time the prevailing P/E ratio levels, while not at historic highs, are elevated enough to be considered more on the expensive side than on the cheap side. There is not much room for P/E multiple expansion, in other words, nor should we expect to repeat that impressive 15.6 percent average annual growth rate.

Again, though, the story is much more complicated than that. That growth rate looks impressive in part because of where it began – at the end of 2009 when earnings were still coming off the deep lows to which they had fallen in the recession. Apart from that gangbusters first year, the earnings growth trend of this decade has not been all that conspicuously different from past decades. Even so, there is a reasonable case to make that robust earnings growth will be difficult in the late stages of an economic growth cycle when demand typically softens and businesses start to reduce output.

But the more interesting part of the story has to do with the P/E multiple. Yes, it is currently high by historical standards. At the same time, though, interest rates are at historically low levels. Traditional fixed income investors, including pension funds and insurance companies, have been pushed into the equity market because the income stream obtainable from the bond market has been insufficient to meet their spending requirements, such as funding their pensions or paying out claims.

With this in mind, what we may be seeing in equity market multiples is a case of supply and demand. Higher demand for blue chip equities (from these institutional investor profiles) will, all else being equal, raise the selling price level of said equities – no different than any other form of economic exchange. If this is really what is going on, and if the trend of vanishingly low interest rates continues for the foreseeable future, then it is plausible that P/E multiples may remain structurally higher. Under this scenario one would not expect to see a reversion to the levels of 11 and 12 times earnings typical of earlier decades, as shown in the little table above.

We certainly do not have all the answers to this complex puzzle, but it is one we think will be important in helping shape our thought process around the market environment that awaits us in the coming decade. You can expect to hear quite a bit more about it in forthcoming commentary, starting with our annual outlook that will come out in January.

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