Dorsey, Wright Client Sentiment Survey - 9/23/11

September 23, 2011

Here we have the next round of the Dorsey, Wright Sentiment Survey, the first third-party sentiment poll. Participate to learn more about our Dorsey, Wright Polo Shirt raffle! Just follow the instructions after taking the poll, and we’ll enter you in the contest. Thanks to all our participants from last round.

As you know, when individuals self-report, they are always taller and more beautiful than when outside observers report their perceptions! Instead of asking individual investors to self-report whether they are bullish or bearish, we’d like financial advisors to weigh in and report on the actual behavior of clients. It’s two simple questions and will take no more than 20 seconds of your time. We’ll construct indicators from the data and report the results regularly on our blog–but we need your help to get a large statistical sample!

Click here to take Dorsey, Wright’s Client Sentiment Survey.

Contribute to the greater good! It’s painless, we promise.

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An Overlooked Investment Opportunity

September 23, 2011

Yes, it’s a college degree. According to an article in the Atlantic:

The typical college graduate earns $570,000 more than the average person with only a high school diploma over her lifetime. That makes college the best big investment on the market, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney find in this remarkable report on the value of a higher education.

Let’s say you’re deciding where to invest $100,000 at age 18. Maybe you think to put it in gold, corporate bonds, U.S. government debt, or hot company stocks. It turns out the best investment — by far — is college. “The $102,000 investment in a four-year college yields a rate of return of 15.2 percent per year,” the authors report, “more than double the average return over the last 60 years experienced in the stock market” and more than five times the return in corporate bonds, gold, long-term government bonds, or housing.

Source: The Atlantic

Now imagine if you take those enhanced earnings and invest them in the stock market…

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Sector and Capitalization Performance

September 23, 2011

The chart below shows performance of US sectors and capitalizations over the trailing 12, 6, and 1 month(s). Performance updated through 9/22/2011.

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