Last year was a disappointment, but this year looks more promising according to most.  For now, at least.

Market predictions for 2019 are plentiful.  There’s no shortage of advice about how and where to allocate your capital for the new year.  Sure, last year was a disappointment, but this year looks more promising according to most.  For now, at least.  Developing your capital market expectations concerning the risk and return prospects of asset classes requires discipline.  Having a well-defined process is the essential element to being rewarded.  The framework for developing a set of capital market expectations should:

  • Specify the final set of expectations
  • Research the historical record
  • Specify the methods and/or the models that will be used
  • Determine the best source for information
  • Interpret the current environment using the selected data
  • Provide the set of expectations that are needed
  • Monitor actual outcomes and compare them with expectations, providing feedback to improve the expectations-setting process

Disciplined capital market expectations require experience and expertise in order to fulfill the requirement set forth by the client.  Consistency is also needed so that experience adds knowledge and helps to reduce variability and error.  Our work at Salt Creek Investors is well embedded in the framework described above.  We make every effort to perform a repeatable process that delivers to your clients a set of solutions based on a rational set of investment and economic assumptions.  These solutions, through the analytical work of Sortino Investment Analytics (SIA), have been produced by the same inputs and computations since our inception.

Setting expectations is different from prediction.  Using a disciplined framework to set market expectations helps increase the probability of your clients achieving their risk/return objective.  Discipline and consistency are important, but only if paired with a review of the historical record of the market as well as an understanding of the current investment and economic environment.  Setting capital market expectations requires analyzing many elements of our investable universe. It is key to the due diligence process required to uphold our industry’s duty to the client.

 

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