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Message: 40 Years, Small Caps Still Safest Bet in Stocks

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40 Years, Small Caps Still Safest Bet in Stocks

posted on Mar 19, 09 05:21AM

From CNBC: General info but maybe those who browse these pages with larger portfolios might take a look at the small cap world!

Some highlights:

"Regardless of time horizon, small stocks offered the best risk/reward potential to investors, while gold offered the worst," Richard Bernstein.

The Standard & Poor's 500 has seen negative 12-month returns 42 percent of the time since 2000. That stands in stark contrast to the 1970s and '80s, when the S&P had only a 1 percent chance of turning in a negative 12-month return. Since 2000, the Russell 2000 small-cap index has lost 22 percent, but small-caps overall have proven to be less risky.
"They lead the way out of recession and in a big way, and that's when you get a lot of that excess performance," Adriana Posada, portfolio manager of the American Beacon Small Cap Value Fund.

That trend has portfolio managers buying small caps, but not with abandon.

The rest is here: http://biz.yahoo.com/cnbc/090317/297...

Thanks for reading

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