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Fully Invested Bear

Fully Invested Bear

| February 19, 2018

As of late, analysts have repeatedly sounded the alarm over the extreme valuation in the U.S. equity markets by looking at just about every traditional market valuation metric.  Interestingly enough, a recent survey of institutional investors by Bank of America Merrill Lynch found that while most institutional investors agreed the market had an “excessive valuation”, those same managers also were heavily over-weighted in equities.  Analysts have coined the term “fully invested bear”, to describe this new behavior.  The explanation for this paradoxical stance could perhaps be best described by the relatively new acronym of “FOMO” – “Fear Of Missing Out”. 

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