Covid-19 Crashed the Stock Market a Year Ago. Here Are Some Lessons Learned.

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The U.S. is still in the midst of the pandemic that led to the spring selloff. And the market’s future remains mired in uncertainty.

Notes: Data as of March 5; Current S&P 500 components that traded on Feb. 19, 2020 shown; Hexagons include multiple days worth of each component's performance.Stock pickers love volatility, but it doesn’t always love them backshould be a boon to active managers. Analysts have long argued that the professionals have the best opportunity to prove themselves when there is plenty of dispersion: meaning the gap between the market’s losers and winners is wide.

But that didn’t pan out in the first half of 2020, a period rife with volatility. Just 37% of U.S. large-cap equity funds managed to beat the S&P 500 over the first six months of last year, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices. ‘We believe this is going to be a decade where active investing prevails.’Bank of America

found 70% of U.S. large-cap mutual funds beat their benchmarks in February, the highest share since 2007. Much of that outperformance appears to have been driven by the fact that technology stocks have underperformed lately. Technology has a big pull on market cap-weighted indexes like the S&P 500, so active managers who haven’t heavily weighted the sector in their own funds have historically struggled to beat the market. This year, it seems a number of fund managers got the timing right.

On the other hand, investors who have made a name for themselves betting big on technology have been stung by widening losses. Among the highest-profile casualties of the past few weeks: Cathie Wood’s ARK Investment Management LLC, whose

 

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One thing that is certain that any uncertainty is resolved by moar stimulus, so what's the problem?

Holy cow, this is some of the most sophomoric business writing I’ve seen. Yes, the market goes up and down; yes, it reflects how optimistic or pessimistic investors are; and, yes, it’s more volatile in times of uncertainty. And people are paid for this?

Can the Wall Street Journal do an expose on how much money elected officials are profiting off the market? It's obvious that they are trading on inside information and even more obvious that they aren't being policed. I'd like my cut? Politics WSJ

That's strange, the Dow is up 191 points right now.

Ugh...not really.

What I did was load up on investments when it was bleeding. If you did anything else too bad for you.

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No, the government and the media crashed the economy, not the virus

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Since the Chinese rabies “crashed the stock market”, maybe the vaccine should be given to the stock market. See where I’m going with this?

No, it didn't

Actually, the pandemic is several months away from being over in the US which is still the third largest country in the world. Implications? You bet.

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