the the or no is this episode forty three charlie below here with me as always Peter will two topics today Peter on five lessons from Peter Lynch and to we're gonna end with signal or noise talking about tariff trade wars and all that good stuff so I want to dig right in five lessons from Peter Lynch needs no introduction we'll talk about his career within these five lessons let's go to number one here know what you own and here's the quote that I often use know what you own and know why you own it this is so important for every investor education is an edge and I know a creative planning this is huge Peter every client that you talk to we're talking about why you own stocks why you own bonds why you have some cash in your portfolio when I think this chart really illustrates it looking at the last thirty years you own stocks for long-term growth see s&p five hundred up fourteen hundred plus percent you own bonds to meet your short-term needs your return expectations should be lower up around two hundred twenty eight percent and you want to be an investor because of this constant threat of inflation we know it's going to be there we just don't know the exact number prices have more than doubled in the last thirty years so when you talk into investors often the last why do I have this in my portfolio what's the purpose there how do you approach that with investors how do you explain and make them know what they own and why they own it yeah
i think that's that's the key is saying well you know stocks are great now or bonds are great now or for this private equity fund looks interesting is very different than saying here's how much money i may need in the next five years here's a much money i may need ten years from now here's this money i don't need for another fifteen or here's how i feel about volatility or how nervous i get when the market is down you really want everything to be goal oriented like what am i trying to do and what do i have to do to make that happen and you go backwards in the investment the why begins with you not the markets not the security and then you need to know like what is what is the content of what i'm going to put my portfolio together with is this high do i expect high performance here why do i expect high performance what is it about these stocks these bonds these private funds that's going to help propel me where i want to go but you've got to begin with you the why begins with you and you go backwards from there
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so if stocks only went up there would be no need to own anything else right that's all often the question why do i even need bonds and it's you always talk about meeting short term needs and that's a hundred percent true but there's also these periods where stocks actually go down you have a negative return for the market you have a bear market and a lot of that time if you look historically bonds have kind of cushion the blow now twenty twenty two didn't do a great job of it because bond yields were at all time lows but if you look at these other years since nineteen seventy six one the s and p five hundred has been down bonds have been up in the value of that in a portfolio peters you often talk about is because then you have this opportunity to opportunistically rebalance and using that decline to be proactive and take money out of the bond portion of portfolio and add it to stocks when they're cheaper yet is only three reasons to own bonds
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one is you believe bonds will be better than other investments going forward there are some people that believe that of the markets really high private investments are really high real estate's really high all these things will have negative returns for the next ten years or very lower turns they're from a don't box this is a very small group of people i'm definitely not in them history says these people tend to lose almost all of the time but that would be reason number one reason number two is you might need money the next five years and no matter how great the world is no matter how fantastic you think everything may turn out no matter how confident you are and what what you're buying if there's a covid or nine eleven or no eight or nine probably going down right if you're an owner of stocks real estate private we probably going to see declines so we're making withdrawals during those declines you can have permanent problems you need bonds for that reason
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and the third reason is you just don't want the volatility you know and there's nothing wrong with that by the way there's people that go look i'm on track to be where i want to get or i'm already there i don't need this drama i don't need my portfolio go down forty five fifty five percent every five years when there's a bear market you know i'm gonna put thirty forty fifty percent more in bonds and i'm just not going to deal with the drama and i don't care if the probability that i'm gonna is higher than i'm gonna earn a little two or three percent less over a decade those are the three reasons make sure you know you're why and then back into the investments right so it comes down at the end of the day to allocation and this is just simply looking at the split between stocks and bonds and there's a trade-off as you can see in this chart here the higher the risk on a long-term basis the higher the reward stocks don't give you that ten percent long-term return without higher risk higher risk of drawdown higher volatility along the way and for every investor there's a right place in the spectrum uh... but it might not be you know i know a lot of uh... advisers just use use simply age peter and other factors like that
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and i know you don't believe in this for everyone it's unique someone might be seventy five and have a very high risk tolerance have no interest in owning a lot of bonds and someone might be twenty five and have a different view and said i want uh... sleeping at night is a premium to me i want to hold more treasury bills and bonds a hundred percent and i think that's there's nothing wrong with getting there by sleeping at night doing it based on your age as you mentioned or anything related to well i'm at this point in my life i therefore should have bought this much bonds i don't think that's the right way to do it if two people are sixty two people are thirty have very different needs very different savings rates very different future withdrawal rates they should have different allocations absolutely the key of all this is no which own and why own it and the reason you want to do that is because things don't always go up and when they go down well if you don't know what you own and why own it what you're likely to abandon that and all many of these other lessons deal with that so we'll touch on that but let's go to the lesson number two here don't try to time the market is a quote i've used many times in the past far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections we're trying to anticipate corrections than has been lost in corrections themselves now peter we haven't had a correction here since last august seems like a distant memory at this point that's a pretty long time usually you get you know three to four corrections a year we know what other ones coming you could kind of fill in the blank let's say if one word happened now we'll talk about tariffs later but you could probably say that would be one reason assigned to it but investors should be fully expecting that correction to come and there's many cases you can make stocks are highly valued and we have this trade where we have all this uncertainty on and on and on why shouldn't an investor think about now trying to time the market and buy back in at a lower price i mean that the the issue is that this thinking begins with this idea that the market goes up and down and therefore i'll wait till it's down and then i'll add and then i'll go up that's not really what the market does the market over a long period time goes up and it has intermittent breaks where it goes down so it's very common for say the the down he used one index to go from thirty five thousand seven thirty seven thousand then go backwards to thirty six but never revisit thirty five right here on the sideline the market can get away from you that's what's basically happened to everybody since covid everybody waiting for this pullback that they can get back in have permanently missed an opportunity means real wealth destruction by being on the sidelines during any of this
and so stop trying to avoid the next correction. that one happens about every thirteen fourteen months average corrections about fourteen percent. the next correction happens i bet it'll happen this year just statistically gonna be a drop of six thousand points and everyone's going to lose their minds. but it's something that happens all the time. just keep buying keep buying keep buying through the whole thing. that's your point here. we don't know which of these numbers won't be re-visited ever again so if you're waiting for that particular number and you got out because of any of these reasons whether it was the greeks default i mean a lot of these things you just quickly forget about uh... you know fed tapering back in twenty fourteen seems crazy that anyone would have gotten out of the market but back then it was real and it was visceral and people were saying a lot of negative negative things to get people out of the market. but it uh...
the question often arises though peter okay maybe i can't do this myself but she's a professional who's been doing this all day every day and really promising that as their strategy uh... to get in and out of the market and shift allocations you know based on this market time. shouldn't they be able to do it better for me and unfortunately the answer overwhelmingly is no morning star just came out with another study of the tactical allocation category here what they found you look at one year three years five years ten years fifteen years twenty years every single time period peter massive massive underperformance if you look at the last fifteen years sixty forty return nine point three percent per year pretty good period for sixty forty. the tactical allocation this is an average five point four percent per year and many of them perform far worse than that and i think of the funds that were around fifteen years ago more than three quarters of them are no longer around today so why is it the case that even professionals have such a hard time timing the markets this market timing doesn't work and it's not market timing doesn't work for retail investors it doesn't work for anybody.
the market is too dynamic there like think about today a change in regulations uh... we got a tariff war with canada china europe you've got uh... change in immigration policy uh... we don't know what's going to happen with geopolitics in the krae and uh... israel gaza uh... with corporate taxes are on the table the time i'm abolishing income tax rate at all these things are in play right now and think about most corrections are things were not thinking about it's just something new that shows up like the covens the new classic example but it could be anything right it just so it's in this idea that i'm going to go on the sideline away for this issue resolve itself and come back was not one issue it's a hundred issues plus invisible issues and no one can see the in...
visible issues or get the dynamics right of everything else so you can't build a strategy uh... based on the past because every environment is different it's constantly evolving. so we shouldn't expect them to crunch all this data and say well this is what how the market reacted when xyz happened in the past will know today's different for all the reasons you mentioned and just to illustrate this crazy uh... point here in terms of doing nothing is often better than taking action morning started another study looking at these allocation funds over a ten year period and what they actually found peter was that if they just held their beginning allocation whatever they started out with in twenty thirteen and didn't do anything didn't do like literally nothing they all would have done better doing the series of trade every single fund and i think four point six percent per year they're saying uh... more of a return had a done absolutely and that's kind of shocking at least to me.
yeah i'm not sure it's shocking to me i think the more tactical allocators tend to also sit on cash at times and so when you have money sitting in cash markets got upward bias you're really swimming against the tide and so i think that that's probably a big factor here combined with these are human strategies and humans have emotions they make the same mistakes and real stuff right and this wasn't a period period without any volatility or corrections right you had three bear markets you had one in twenty eighteen you had obviously the covid crash in twenty twenty and then twenty twenty two was a longer bear market so you there were opportunities
let's say if you had this ability to time the market there were opportunities for them to be able to let's say get out before and then buy back in and add value it just they weren't able to do it and really historically no one's able been able to do that repeatedly over long run let's go to lesson number three here there will be drawdowns i got two quotes here the key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them and the second one here you get recessions you have stock market declines if you don't understand that's going to happen then you're not ready you won't do well in the markets i want to start out here talking about the group of stocks i call the enormous eight and i just had Netflix to the max seven to include it here what i'm showing here peter are the eye popping returns on the right side google is the worst performer of the group up 660 percent over the last ten years and he got
uh tesla and vidi you got these massive massive returns across the board but that didn't come without risk you have enormous risk along the way and the left side tells the story huge huge drawdowns across the board shouldn't every investor kind of understand this that there's no upside without that downside and you have to be able to stick with these huge declines in order to make those big rewards yeah and a great investor loves the downside because the downside is the the thing that drives people out of equities and and uh makes makes bonds attractive we need to have a bond market for the stock market to do so well and if there was no risk with stocks the returns would be much lower and so it's the volatility that's really the number one thing that's paying the investor is the willingness to take on this volatility absolutely and it's not easy right to to sit through it which is why most people would be more likely much more likely to stick with a diversified portfolio
because losing 70 80 percent of your money in a stock and being concentrated on there how many people are going to stick with that we know from history amazon and many other examples where they've had 90 plus declines and think about if you have all of your money that you've saved in that stock it goes down 90 percent almost no one's just going to sit there and take it so if we're looking at bear markets here Peter this is a table going back to the Great Depression looking at bear markets here and he's saying you have to kind of accept it in terms of if you're an investor for 30 years right and there's a bear market every four years on average you should expect many many of these big declines and if you're not ready to accept that going in well then how in the world are you going to stick with it when it actually comes? 100 percent go in eyes wide open corrections every year on average bear markets every five to six years on average they don't space themselves out nicely good investors can hold through
all of that you know bad investors panic and sell great investors love it they embrace it absolutely let's go to lesson number four keep it simple never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon and this is a hard one for many investors to understand because complexity just sounds better it sounds like adding complexity should give you a higher level of return here i'm just highlighting hedge funds equity hedge funds versus a simple 60 40 and they're doing many of them complicated strategies that most of their investors probably don't have a great understanding of to say the least and you can see here over the last 15 years what a simple 60 40 just s&p 500 and and aggregate bond fund would have done 280 versus the average equity hedge index here up 106 percent i know this stat isn't surprising to you but how do you explain to the average investor why simpler is not only better for them actually in terms of returns but getting back to that know what you own and why you own it
concept that when you have these big drawdowns well you can understand why stocks are down or why bonds are down in your portfolio much harder when you have these complicated investments and funds where there's really very little transparency in terms of what they're doing yeah Warren Buffett's a big fan along with what you referenced Peter Lynch on this simplicity concept if you can't understand it very clearly someone can't articulate it very clearly you know don't invest in it i mean nrons the classic example of that there's many many many companies that have got underwear no one really knew and then explain it and you're like well i don't really get it this is why i'm not a fan of things that are very derivative like an investment that's a derivative of something else that's a derivative of something else because even if you understand the little investment itself you don't understand the repercussions of a butterfly flies in Mongolia the wrong way what happens to this hedge fund over here right all of the dominoes that start to fall that impact things we saw that in awake on nine where a lot of different investments performed very poorly and they were for reasons that were unanticipated because the products were structured or derivatives in other words it wasn't a pure stock or a pure bond it was something that was tied to something else in some way this is the reason i don't like those things
yep let's go to lesson number five and this is a really interesting one knowing one to walk away he talks about one of the reasons i left Magellan was that i wanted to retire well i still had a good record i left the party when they cake in the champagne we're still being served and this is just highlighting his track record really an anomaly right in the industry where he not only did very well and he certainly most of the outperformance came in the early years when the fund was very small and no one was in the fund but even the last five years when it was already the biggest fund in the world it's still he's still outperformed i think five or six percent per year and during the entire period here may 1997 to May 1990 seven 1977 and 1990 29 percent annualized versus 15 for the s&p 500 and there's some parallels here peter to sports if you think about Jim Brown or Barry Sanders retiring after just 10 years in the league or and i often think about Jerry Seinfeld and and he's done some great interviews on that why did he only do 10 seasons you know really left on top what do you make of this ability it's got to be very hard obviously right you're the king of the world here you know the most well-known probably fund manager you know or at least one of them of all time and he's and he's walking away and then we'll talk about the reasons why he was saying he needed to leave at that point i think of Seinfeld like like your reference when i think of this quote about he like he said he went out on wanted to go out on top um or or like he said Brady
what's interesting though is it implies that Peter Lynch thinks he doesn't control it right that he recognizes that for all his brilliance at a time where there was not really internet for most of the time that was high speed the market wasn't as efficient he outperformed dramatically but but saying hey i'm walking away while i'm on top implies that he may not stay on top right that it wasn't a repeatable something that was easily repeatable i think that's saying something from a greater investor of that of that time yeah absolutely and in terms of his reasoning here he talks about i'm missing so much of it i went to a soccer game with one of my daughters and i think they lost seven to nothing and i had a great time i went to one soccer game i missed seven and then this is from an interview a few years ago i think in 2021 they asked him do you regret stepping away says i don't keep score i've got 10 grandchildren that's what i keep score on so he really went a way to do things that he wanted to do he was still investing for his family was still a mentor to many people at fidelity where he worked he still actively researched stocks but to him peter it was either 100 100 plus percent or nothing he said he only had two gears and the gear was 80 hours a week where he started working all day saturday and sunday and missing everything else in his life or nothing he couldn't do the in between he had some ready come ready again right there you go right
and sometimes it's very hard to switch off that gear when you get to that level um but i think he did it for the right reasons here reminds me that kobe brian you know when he was they asked him what do you do before practice and he said practice he would show up two hours per period practice before practice these people that are operating at that level the the dedication uh that they're having to say no to a lot of other things yeah absolutely all right there you go peter lynch five lessons many more we could do uh if you're watching this and you're thinking about tax season coming up thinking we have over 300 p.a's at creative planning helping people prepare taxes and also working with wealth managers to minimize the taxes you pay and maximize the return so reach out today creative planning dot com slash charlie you're going to get a free wealth path analysis when you schedule a call or a meeting with an advisor we're at all 50 states at creative planning we likely have a location right near you over 345 billion and assets under management advisement we're here to help reach out today creative planning dot com slash charlie
okay peter let's go to signal or noise i know you've been doing some interviews about the tariff situation i first have to say it's kind of hilarious the last two sundays we have pretty much deja vu right futures are down media is putting out all this negative headlines markets going to crash because the tariffs and trade wars and literally 24 hours later columbia caves a deal is reached there's no tariffs there they accept the prisoners who were put on a plane they accept them back to their country and they think the president actually offered his own plane and then a week later you have canada and mexico similar situation negotiations about the border how to secure it and how to prevent drugs from coming through it initially they're they're saying oh this is going to lead to a long and drawn out trade off and then 24 hours later both of them agree to take measures at the border i think they said that mexico was going to send 10 000 of their troops to try to stop the flow of fentanyl across the border so we had talked about this earlier in terms of it's being used obviously here as a policy tool as leverage right to enact this policy but so much noise is out there in terms of well what will this actually mean and there's people making estimations right hit to gdp hit the inflation to me it just seems like all of that is impossible to predict because of just the uncertainty of you could have a deal 24 hours later that changes everything yeah i think the stock market doesn't believe about the permanence of any of these tariffs right i mean that it's literally barely moved if we really believed there was going to be 25% tariffs on mexico and canada and then same on china we're going to get a tariff forward europe and the market believed it was going to go on for six months to a year the market would go down 10 to 20 percent there's no very little question about it market doesn't believe it it believes we're going to have a little bit of a trade war trump's going to get concessions and we're all going to move on now the market could be wrong right it could be we could have an unintended consequence things could get more serious you know who knows but the market just doesn't buy it it's expecting what we're seeing trump saying hey i'm we're going to do this and then there's a quick compromise you know trump administration posts some sort of win you know columbia is taking back um some people that came from columbia and canada's enforcing the border more and mexico is putting troops on the border uh and blocking fentanyl and all in the heat post is winn and then things pause so we don't really know where it's going to go but the market's not buying it
yeah that seems to be the case what's interesting to me peters is how we know we didn't hear really anything about tariffs under the four years on their biden but the amount that we collected under biden was actually more than under trump so he actually added additional tariffs mostly uh on on against china and there was not a single word about it and the other thing is dealing with markets is the stock market did very well we know under the trump's first term regardless of those tariffs it did very well under biden's term so this notion that automatically this is going to be bad for stocks bad for earnings bad for the u.s. economy it's not a hundred percent clear to me it seems to just to be a negotiation strategy and every country is doing this the i think it's it's kind of uh the media is kind of portraying it as that as just the u.s is the only one in history to ever put tariffs on anyone when you look at all these countries around the world you see some of them do broad 20 tariffs and they don't have high inflation you have you have many different examples and obviously the situation in china being the most complex right because they're not accepting many of our goods into their country we know we know the situation there is very complicated we know that we want to have some independence in certain industries so it's not even clear cut like should we have no tariffs with anyone that doesn't seem to make sense it's really about getting to a place of fair trade versus this idea of just free trade is always good is that is that how you're thinking about the situation i think i think as mostly agree i think let this couple different things with trump one extremely vocal about it second very high tariffs without a demand that accompanies them right which is a negotiating tactic right but that's what's different here from the way that the biden administration implemented a bunch of tariffs on a bunch of countries you know over time this is much more this is much less thoughtful tariffs on specific things and much more war economic war right but that's what biden wanted and what he was trying to do and this is what trump wants and he's trying to do something very different so it's not a political statement i think they're taking different approaches than maybe the graph is illustrating right okay and just going to the markets here i just want to highlight the sop 500 go back to that chart of smp 500 corrections and we go back to 2018 when that first trade war it was really concentrated which just china back then and where the smp 500 was back then peter uh 2,900 before it we know we're at 6,000 now so we've smp 500 is doubled despite all of this and if you let that noise really impact your long-term investing at that point in time would have been a very bad move i think that's the broader message it's not that there won't be a correction and they won't blame it on tariffs but my bigger point is it's absolutely impossible to say is this good is this bad like just generally saying it's good or bad and then when you when you have the deals literally changing everything 24 hours later all of those assumptions that you're making based on you know were we really going to have 25 percent tariffs on mexico for 10 20 yeah almost impossible but people were talking and acting as if if they were so at my take is simply uh if you're going to look at tariffs they'll put take a bigger picture and really dig into the actual details of what countries are doing to us what we're doing to them what has happened historically it's not as simplistic as simply tariff is always bad in all cases
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