Bob Brinker's Market Outlook For 2012 Brinker, fully invested since 2003 remains bullish for 2012 With the S&P in the mid 1200s, Brinker says "market attractive for purchase in the low-1100s" |
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Bob
Brinker Fan Club Home Page News with editorial comments by Kirk Lindstrom |
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Dec.
27, 2011: Sunday December 25,
2011 was Christmas. Most of the
stations that still carry "Moneytalk with
host Bob Brinker" played Christmas music
or replays of old shows. You can
read our last review of the show at
Moneytalk Summaries - December 18, 2011 Dec. 21, 2011: Mark Hulbert selected Bob Brinker among nine newsletters that made his reconfigured 2011 Honor Roll. What is odd is he reconfigured his list to include the last two "down periods" including the decline that began in this Spring yet Brinker is on this new list despite being fully invested for the last two declines. Brinker has been fully invested, 100% in stocks, since March 2003! In the Decemer 2012 issue of the "Hulbert Financial Digest" (which I subscribe to but DO NOT RECOMMEND) Hulbert writes of what I now consider his nonsensical Honor Roll: To be sure, constructing the Honor Roll in this way runs the risk of eliminating those newsletters with the best long-term returns.In a Barron's article titled "Focus on Funds,", Murray Coleman writes: Bob Brinker (Bob Brinker’s Marketimer) — Brinker writes: “In our view, the S&P 500 index has the potential to trade into the low-to-mid 1400s range in 2012. On a valuation basis, using our conservative operating earnings estimate of $101 for next year, a price/earnings multiple of 14 would enable the S&P 500 index to reach the low-to-mid 1400s level.”Forbes Magazine, one I also subscribe to and highly recommend, was not fooled. In their December 19, 2011 article "Thank Goodness for Index Funds" Rick Ferri wrote: Finally, index investors were saved from countless terrible market calls made by so-called experts. Here is a sample of bad advice that torpedoed the savings of many people:Brinker wrote in his Dec. 2007 Marketimer: “We continue to rate the market as attractive for purchase in the mid-1400’s… Any additional weakness below this range is regarded as a gift horse buying opportunity.”So of course it should remain "attractive for purchase" 350 points lower while he was 100% invested in stocks the whole time! What nonsense and SHAME on Mark Hulbert for supporting this nonsense. |
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for your core portfolio that I recommend
for 80 to 95% of your assets. Rick
Ferri adds:
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