HOW WAS 2014 FOR HOUSEWIVES?

One of the funniest parts of analysis in stock markets: if you look back couple of months or a year how people forecasted the future. I have loved during the whole year the bearish sentiment about the market rally. But finally the 2014 has been quite a good year again for investors in stock markets in row for 5 years.

2014 Index returns:

• S&P 500 +12,55%
• Dow Jones 8,48%
• Nasdaq +14,39%

It has been proved again the best investment is still the stock markets and you had should forget the gold and property in 2014. So, at the beginning of 2014 there was a survey what pops & moms are thinking about the best investment in 2014. This year they had good shots since last year 2013 was an exceptional good year for stocks so the mean used to be very optimistic about stocks this year generally and they were right. They didn’t trust in commodities and gold and they were right again, the whole commodity asset group suffered its biggest drop since decades. But it seems clearly after three years of falling of gold the love has gone away.

They were super sceptical about bond market, but this asset group performed quite well. All in all if this kind of choppy and volatile market they really put the bets on stocks they made nice returns, but I am concerned a bit that they really did since we had two big corrections in US indices closely 10% in 2014, and those days and pops & moms usually capitulate.

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The BFM Assets Team.