Looking at the roaring performance of the S&P 500 since the financial crisis, it has certainly been a great half-decade with the index outperforming hedge funds as a whole and leading the world out of a deep recession that would otherwise have caused another depression if not for the Fed stepping in.
The arguments on the topic of asset managers’ failure to outperform the market index can be saved for another day, I’m going to talk more about the S&P 500 index itself, and why I think it may have run out of steam.
Referring to another article on The Fifth Person – 5 Reasons Why I’m Bullish on the U.S. Economy and the S&P 500 ETF; the five reasons are valid and shows a general trend of an improving American economy and I agree with them, but I would like to present, in my opinion, four other reasons ......