2011: Year in Review

Once again this year we’ve prepared a Year-in-Review audio podcast for our clients and website visitors.

As we now know, 2011 was another year of heavy volatility which ultimately resulted in little change in most of the major stock indexes.

In this podcast, we examine that volatility, along with an analysis of risk and reward. We also discuss the advantages of defensive investing.

Click to hear the 2011 Year in Review podcast

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Blog Podcast Links

Often, investment newsletters which have excelled in a particular year, especially in extremes, end up reversing course the following year and performing abysmally. In this article, Marketwatch.com examines a few such examples and provides sufficient warning to those attempting to predict which asset classes will perform best in the near term. This link would be referenced in the section where I talk about the difficulty of predicting next year’s winners.

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This article is written by The Aden Forecast, which was named Marketwatch.com investment newsletter of the year in 2010. This newsletter has had a superb record over the past several years, having increased in value by an average +6.55% per year for the three year period of January 2008 through December 2010, as opposed to a minus 4.26% loss for the Wilshire 5000 Total Stock Market Index during the same time period. The Aden Forecast preaches continued caution for 2012 in the attached article.

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Disclaimer

This audio or video presentation was produced by Andrew J. Fama Asset Management, LLC, a New York registered investment advisory services firm. The content is intended for educational and information purposes only and not as investment advice or an offer or recommendation to buy or sell an investment product. Any investment or tax decision made carries risk including the risk of financial loss and is ultimately the responsibility of the individual who should consult beforehand with a financial or tax advisor. Past performance is not indicative of future returns.