How 2017 Was A Lot Like 2000
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How 2017 Was A Lot Like 2000

One theme of our work this year has been the decline in sector correlations among the 11 industry groups in the S&P 500. This trend is, in many ways, more significant than the above-average +18% return for the index in 2017. Prior to January...

S&P +20% This Year; What’s Next?
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S&P +20% This Year; What’s Next?

The S&P 500 will most likely end the year at least 20% higher than where it started. Sounds like an outsized return, no? We pulled the performance data for the index back to 1928 (1958 to present actual data, prior to that recreated) from NYU...