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FEATURE: Was the Decade Really Lost?
We look at for whom the decade was lost, and how asset allocation and diversification can help avoid another Lost Decade.
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PERSPECTIVES: Adding Value through Professional Advice
John Nersesian CFP®, CIMA®, CIS, Managing Director, Nuveen Investments Wealth Management Services Group
“It is worth examining how professionally managed investments fared during the Lost Decade.”
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CONVERSATION: The Lost Decade and the Road Ahead
David Chalupnik, Head of Equities, Nuveen Asset Management
“Other fixed income asset classes held up better than equities, and diversifying equities outside of the United States was also a good idea.”
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FIELD NOTES: Investing for the Future, Not the Past
Tips when talking with your clients to moderate emotions and maintain perspective.
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EXPLORING: Lost Decade
A common definition of a Lost Decade seems to be a period in which the price performance of a popular stock market average – most commonly the S&P 500 Composite or Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) – experiences negative returns. Using this very simplistic definition, we did in fact experience a Lost Decade during the 10-year period from 2000-2009.
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FACTS & FIGURES:
-1.31
Price return of the S&P 500 Index from 1/1/00 to 12/31/09.1
-0.95
Total return of the S&P 500 Index from 1/1/00 to 12/31/09.2
3.51
Total return of small cap stocks from 1/1/00 to 12/31/09, as measured by the Russell 2000® Total Return Index.3
8.41
Total return of government bonds from 1/1/00 to 12/31/09, as measured by the Ibbotson Associates U.S. Long Term Government Total Return Index.4
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