FYI: (I will link program early Saturday morning when it becomes available for free)
Regards,
Ted
July 23, 2015
Dear WEALTHTRACK Subscriber,
Two of WEALTHTRACK’s most enduring investment themes in the decade since our launch have been the power of compounding and the wisdom of diversification.
The results over time of compounding, reinvesting dividends, capital gains and interest has been described as the most powerful force in the universe.
For instance, $10,000 invested over the last ten years in the S&P 500, without reinvesting dividends and capital gains, would be worth $17,318 today. That’s an annualized return of nearly 6% and a cumulative return of 73%.
If you had taken that same $10,000 portfolio and reinvested the dividends and capital gains instead, you would have more than doubled your initial investment and have a portfolio worth $21,377, equal to annualized returns of nearly 8% and a cumulative gain of 114%!
As far as diversification goes, the reality is that most investors do not own many different asset classes. Plus, in their stock portfolios, they tend to hold hefty chunks of large cap U.S. stocks.
It turns out that was not a bad position to be in over the last decade, especially during the now six year old bull market when U.S. stocks have outperformed many international ones.
As I just explained, $10,000 invested in just the S&P 500, with dividends and capital gains reinvested, would have more than doubled your money. That same $10,000 equally divided among the S&P 500, U.S. small cap and mid cap stocks, foreign developed country stocks and emerging market stocks would have netted you only about $500 more.
In retrospect, for this decade at least, diversifying by size and geography hardly seemed worth the trouble. Will it be going forward? What is the outlook for those large cap U.S. stocks that dominate so many of our portfolios?
This week’s guest is Bob Doll, who has focused on that popular category for more than three decades, and has been a regular WEALTHTRACK guest since the very beginning. Doll is Chief Equity Strategist and Senior Portfolio Manager at Nuveen Asset Management, where he manages the firm’s large cap equity series. His responsibilities include running nine mutual funds: the traditional Large Cap Value, Growth and Core funds, three large cap specialty funds: Nuveen Core Dividend, Nuveen Concentrated Core and Nuveen Growth and three alternative funds: Nuveen Core Plus, Nuveen Equity Long/Short and Nuveen Equity Market Neutral funds.
Doll also writes widely followed weekly commentaries and makes 10 annual predictions, for which he recently did his mid-year review.
His take on the large cap universe is that it offers much more diversity than meets the eye. He will tell us about the differentiators that can significantly influence performance.
If you’d like to see the show before it airs, it is available to our PREMIUM subscribers right now. We also have an EXTRA interview with Doll, available exclusively on our website.
Plus, WEALTHTRACK is now available on a YouTube Channel. So if you are unable to join us for the show on television, you can watch it on our website, WealthTrack.com, or by subscribing to our YouTube Channel.
Have a great weekend and make the week ahead a profitable and a productive one.
Best Regards,
Consuelo
