Sound Portfolio Advisors

Perhaps the most encouraging signs in markets today are general pessimism and lowered expectations. Mass expectations tend to be dead wrong, and are therefore excellent contra-indicators. The first- and second-best performing asset classes of the past 10 years, gold and real estate, were so ill-regarded prior to 2000 they weren't even included in the data provided by the Wall Street Journal in January of that year. The best performing asset class for the 1995-1999 period, science and technology, was by far the worst performing for the following 10 years.