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Principles For Successful Long-Term Investing: Retirement Insights Market Insights
Principles For Successful Long-Term Investing: Retirement Insights Market Insights
MARKET INSIGHTS
INSIGHTS Europe | 2020
YOU WILL FIND SLIDES FROM OUR GUIDE TO THE MARKETS, ALONG WITH COMMENTARY PROVIDING
5 VOLATILITY IS NORMAL
7 DIVERSIFICATION WORKS
PRINCIPLES FOR SUCCESSFUL LONG-TERM INVESTING
Women
Couple – at least one
80 76 lives to specified age
67
60
51
40 35
24
20
0
principles
Investing
80 years 90 years
Source: ONS 2016-2018 Life Tables, J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of current and future results.
Guide to the Markets - Europe. Data as of 31 December 2019.
RIGHT:
Inflation eats away at your purchasing power
A risk-averse saver who decides to hide their cash under the mattress will find that
inflation reduces the real value of that cash over time. If money is not invested, the
purchasing power – or amount of goods that money can buy – will decrease by more
than half over a 40-year time horizon if inflation is 2% per year.
Income generated by €100.000 in a three-month bank deposit Effect of 2% inflation on purchasing power of €100.000
EUR (LHS); % change year on year (RHS) EUR, thousands
5.000 5 100 €100.000
Income Inflation
2008: €4.600
90
4.000
4 80
70
3.000
3 60
2019: €0
€44.500
2.000 50
2 40
1.000
30
20
1
0
10
0
principles
-1.000 0
Investing
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
'01 '03 '05 '07 '09 '11 '13 '15 '17 '19 Years
Source: (Left) Bloomberg, Eurostat, J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Inflation is the percentage change year on year for the eurozone harmonised index of consumer
prices. Data shown are yearly averages. (Right) J.P. Morgan Asset Management. For illustrative purposes only, assumes no return on cash and an inflation rate of
2%. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of current and future results. Guide to the Markets - Europe. Data as of 31 December 2019.
100
Bonds: $14
10
Cash: $2
1
principles
0
Investing
Source: Bloomberg, Bloomberg Barclays, FactSet, Shiller, Siegel, Standard & Poorʼs, J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Pre 2010 returns: Shiller, Siegel; from 2010:
Equities: S&P 500; Bonds: Bloomberg Barclays US Treasury 20+ year Total Return Index; Cash: Bloomberg Barclays US Treasury Bills Total Return Index. Past
performance is not a reliable indicator of current and future results. Guide to the Markets - Europe. Data as of 31 December 2019.
€5.000 invested annually with 5% growth per year €5.000 investment with/without income reinvested
EUR EUR, MSCI Europe returns
700.000 80.000 €81.000
€640.000
400.000
€354.000
40.000
300.000
€29.000
200.000
20.000
100.000
0 0
principles
Investing
6
Compound return
2 Cash
1
Higher risk
0
principles
Investing
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18
Volatility
Source: Bloomberg Barclays, MSCI, Refinitiv Datastream, J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Volatility is the standard deviation of annual returns since 2004. Cash: JP
Morgan Cash EUR (3M); Euro government bonds: Bloomberg Barclays Euro Aggregate - Treasury; Global investment-grade bonds: Bloomberg Barclays Global
Aggregate – Corporate; Emerging market debt: J.P. Morgan EMBI Global; Global high yield bonds: Bloomberg Barclays Global High Yield; Global Equities: MSCI All-
Country World Index (includes developed and emerging markets). Past performance is not a reliable indicator of current and future results.
Guide to the Markets - Europe. Data as of 31 December 2019.
5 VOLATILITY IS NORMAL
Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs
Every year has its rough patches. The red dots on this chart represent the maximum
intra-year equity decline in every calendar year, or the difference between the highest
and lowest point reached by the market in those 12 months. It is hard to predict these
pullbacks, but double-digit declines in markets are a fact of life in most years; investors
should expect them.
Volatility in financial markets is normal and investors should be prepared upfront for the
ups and downs of investing, rather than reacting emotionally when the going gets tough.
The grey bars represent the calendar-year market price returns. They show that, despite
the pullbacks every year, the equity market has recovered to deliver positive returns in
most calendar years.
The lesson is, don’t panic: more often than not a stock market pullback is an opportunity,
not a reason to sell.
30 28 28
22 23
21 20 22
20 20
20 18
16 17 16
15
13 13 12 12
9 10
10 6
3 4 4
2 2 2
0
-3 -4
-4 -4 -4
-10 -7 -6 -6 -5 -6
-8 -7
-9 -8
-11 -11 -10 -11 -11 -12 -12 -12
-12 -12 -12 -12 -13
-15 -16 -15 -15 -15
-20 -18 -18 -18 -17 -18
-19
-22
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-31 -31
-35 -35
-40 -37
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principles
-50
Investing
-48
'80 '82 '84 '86 '88 '90 '92 '94 '96 '98 '00 '02 '04 '06 '08 '10 '12 '14 '16 '18
Source: MSCI, Refinitiv Datastream, J.P Morgan Asset Management. Returns are local currency price returns. Intra-year decline refers to the largest market fall from
peak to trough within a short time period during the calendar year. Returns shown are calendar years from 1980 to 2019. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of
current and future results. Guide to the Markets - Europe. Data as of 31 December 2019.
Patience is a virtue
Selling after the market has experienced a large fall is normally the wrong strategy.
However, resisting the urge to panic following a market decline can be difficult. People
tend to sell after equities have already fallen. As the chart shows, large outflows often
occur when stock prices are already close to a trough, meaning investors who sell lock in
their losses and miss out on the subsequent recovery.
150
3.000
125
100 2.500
75
2.000
50
25
1.500
0
-25 1.000
-50
500
-75 Avoid selling at the bottom
principles
Investing
-100 0
'96 '97 '98 '99 '00 '01 '02 '03 '04 '05 '06 '07 '08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20
Source: FactSet, Investment Company Institute, J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Fund flows are US long-term equity fund flows with ETF flows included from 2006
onwards. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of current and future results. Guide to the Markets - Europe. Data as of 31 December 2019.
This chart illustrates this concept. Investors should not necessarily expect the same rates
of return in the future as we have seen in the past. But a diversified blend of stocks and
bonds has not suffered a negative return over any 10-year rolling period, despite the
great swings in annual returns we have seen since 1950.
30%
25
24% 24%
21%
17% 17% 18%
13% 15%
4% 4%
0% 1% 1%
0
-1% -3%
-7% -3%
-18%
-24%
-25
-43%
principles
Investing
Source: Strategas/Ibbotson, J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Large cap equity represents the S&P 500 Composite and Bonds represents the Strategas/Ibbotson US
Government Bond Index and US Long-term Corporate Bond Index. Returns shown are per annum and are calculated based on monthly returns from 1950 to latest
available and include dividends. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of current and future results. Guide to the Markets - Europe.
Data as of 31 December 2019.
7 DIVERSIFICATION WORKS
Yet despite these difficulties, the worst-performing asset classes of those shown here
have been cash and commodities. Meanwhile, a well-diversified portfolio, including stocks,
bonds and some other asset classes, has returned close to 7% per year over this time
period. The diversified portfolio has also provided a much smoother ride for investors
than investing in equities alone, as shown by its position in the chart’s volatility column.
Cash HY bonds EME REITs HY bonds Portfolio EMD EMD Cm dty DM Equities IG bonds REITs HY bonds REITs
5,7% 54,4% 27,5% 10,9% 17,8% 3,3% 20,2% 12,8% 15,1% 8,1% 1,3% 30,4% 9,8% 20,1%
IG bonds DM Equities Cm dty Govt bonds EME HY bonds DM Equities DM Equities EME Portfolio HY bonds EME EMD HY bonds
-3,9% 26,7% 24,9% 9,9% 16,8% 2,7% 20,1% 11,0% 14,9% 1,7% 0,8% 21,1% 9,0% 17,5%
EMD Portfolio HY bonds IG bonds EMD Hedge Funds IG bonds HY bonds EMD Cash REITs Portfolio DM Equities DM Equities
-6,3% 25,4% 22,8% 7,8% 16,7% 2,1% 17,5% 8,4% 13,5% -0,3% 0,7% 18,8% 8,5% 17,4%
Hedge Funds EMD DM Equities HY bonds DM Equities Cash Portfolio Govt bonds REITs HY bonds EMD EMD Portfolio Cm dty
-19,3% 24,2% 20,1% 6,6% 14,7% 0,2% 16,2% 7,7% 12,6% -3,0% 0,2% 16,5% 6,8% 15,5%
Portfolio REITs EMD Cash Portfolio REITs HY bonds IG bonds DM Equities EMD Cash HY bonds IG bonds Portfolio
-20,9% 23,5% 19,8% 1,7% 10,7% -1,3% 13,9% 7,4% 11,4% -4,0% -0,3% 14,6% 6,5% 11,7%
HY bonds IG bonds Portfolio Portfolio IG bonds IG bonds Hedge Funds Hedge Funds Portfolio REITs Portfolio IG bonds Govt bonds EMD
-23,1% 15,5% 18,9% 1,2% 9,5% -4,0% 13,2% 7,3% 10,3% -4,0% -1,6% 13,6% 4,9% 11,2%
Cm dty Cm dty Govt bonds DM Equities Hedge Funds EME Govt bonds Portfolio IG bonds IG bonds Hedge Funds Hedge Funds EME Hedge Funds
-32,3% 15,2% 13,3% -1,8% 1,9% -6,5% 13,0% 6,4% 7,4% -4,2% -2,0% 10,7% 4,1% 9,2%
REITs Hedge Funds IG bonds Hedge Funds Cash Govt bonds EME Cash Hedge Funds Govt bonds DM Equities Cm dty Hedge Funds IG bonds
-34,1% 9,9% 13,2% -5,8% 1,2% -8,4% 11,8% 0,1% 5,6% -5,8% -3,6% 9,7% 2,0% 7,5%
DM Equities Cash Hedge Funds Cm dty Govt bonds EMD Cash EME Govt bonds Hedge Funds Cm dty Govt bonds Cash Govt bonds
-37,2% 2,3% 12,5% -10,4% 0,3% -10,6% 0,3% -4,9% 4,7% -6,9% -6,8% 7,5% 1,0% 7,3%
principles
Investing
EME Govt bonds Cash EME Cm dty Cm dty Cm dty Cm dty Cash Cm dty EME Cash Cm dty Cash
-50,8% -0,6% 1,1% -15,4% -2,6% -13,4% -5,5% -16,1% -0,1% -10,7% -9,9% -0,3% -4,0% 1,7%
Source: Bloomberg Barclays, FTSE, J.P. Morgan Economic Research, MSCI, Refinitiv Datastream, J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Annualised return covers the
period from 2008 to 2019. Vol. is the standard deviation of annual returns. Govt bonds: Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Government Treasuries; HY bonds:
Bloomberg Barclays Global High Yield; EMD: J.P. Morgan EMBI Global; IG bonds: Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate – Corporates; Cmdty: Bloomberg Commodity;
REITS: FTSE NAREIT All REITS; DM Equities: MSCI World; EME: MSCI EM; Hedge funds: HFRI Global Hedge Fund Index; Cash: JP Morgan Cash Index EUR (3M).
Hypothetical portfolio (for illustrative purposes only and should not be taken as a recommendation): 30% DM equities; 10% EM equities; 15% IG bonds; 12,5%
government bonds; 7,5% HY bonds; 5% EMD; 5% commodities; 5% cash; 5% REITS and 5% hedge funds. All returns are total return, in EUR, and are unhedged. Past
performance is not a reliable indicator of current and future results. Guide to the Markets - Europe. Data as of 31 December 2019.