Robert D. Arnott Quotes

• The best investment opportunities are often scary.

  Robert D. Arnott

  Opportunity, Scary, Investment

  Source: www.bloomberg.com

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• Many investors prefer comfort, chasing what is popular and loved, rather than pursuing what is out of favor. The markets do not reward comfort.

  Robert D. Arnott

  Comfort, Favors, Rewards

  Source: www.bloomberg.com

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• Design a portfolio you are not likely to trade... akin to premarital counseling advice; try to build a portfolio that you can live with for a long, long time.

  Robert D. Arnott

  Long, Design, Advice

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• Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence of fear.

  Robert D. Arnott

  Successful, Investing, Absence

  Source: www.bloomberg.com

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• The most treasured asset in investment management is a steady hand at the tiller.

  Robert D. Arnott

  Hands, Management, Investment

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• Whatever is newly expensive has two attributes: wonderful past returns and, in most cases, lousy future returns.

  Robert D. Arnott

  Past, Two, Return

  Source: www.bloomberg.com

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• History teaches that when valuations are extreme, "mean reversion," a move towards historical norms, is likely. Once value stocks turn, the recovery can be fast and intense.

  Robert D. Arnott

  Moving, Recovery, Mean

  Source: www.bloomberg.com

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• Whatever is cheap became cheap by treating us badly in the past, but is priced to deliver superior returns.

  Robert D. Arnott

  Past, Return, Superiors

  Source: www.bloomberg.com

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• Diversify. But carve out 10 to 20 percent for the most unloved part of the market: emerging markets value.

  Robert D. Arnott

  Percent, Emerging Markets, Unloved

  Source: www.bloomberg.com

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