Now is the time for all Family Offices to come of age. Upon doing so, they will rightfully claim their seats at the U.S. Capital Markets round table, alongside the four additional generational investor groups:
Generational investors, the world’s oldest, largest and most disciplined, comprise the backbone of the U.S. capital markets and asset classes. Generational-investor pioneers laid the foundation for the capital markets because they accounted for the majority of investment capital and trading volume from 1882 to 1920. The investment disciplines they had to develop and hone to be able to survive extreme volatilities within the Consumer Price Index, economy and S&P 500 in the late 19th and early 20th centuries evolved to become the key valuation benchmarks for the S&P 500 and all stocks, i.e.:
For more about generational investors and the evolution of their disciplines, please see “S&P 500’s Bottoms Occur Only When Generational Investors Buy!”, Michael Markowski, June 4, 2022, AlphaTack.com.
The table below depicts assets for five groups, that in aggregate had assets of $69.1 trillion on 12/31/2021. Assets of the five were equivalent to 129% of the aggregate value of the entire U.S. stock market at 12/31/2021.
The Family Office group, which consists of 7,300 Family Offices, has the second-largest portion, equivalent to 8.5% of the $69.1 trillion of all assets held by generational investors. A high percentage of the assets held by Family Offices have been amassed in the 21st Century. According to Forbes, from 2008 to 2019, the number of Family Offices within the U.S. grew by 10 times. The average assets held by a Family Office in 2019 were $765 million.
However, the average Family Office has is distinctly disadvantaged when compared to a Swiss bank, endowment, public pension fund, or a sovereign wealth fund for three reasons:
Inflation is the nemesis that will cause both of the above events, which have the potential of being devastating. A decline of such magnitude for the S&P 500 would be the recipe for the U.S. to enter into its Third Great Depression. The chart below depicts the last time the S&P 500 declined by at least 79.95%, while from 1929 to 1932 the S&P 500 declined by 85%. The decline was the primary cause for the Second Great Depression of 1929 to 1938 being much longer than the First U.S. Great Depression of 1920 to 1921.
Finally, based upon my research of secular markets, the S&P 500 and the U.S. economy face another risk. The secular bull market that began in 2009, ended when a new secular bear market began on January 4, 2022. This bear will be the cause of a 47% to 85% decline for the S&P 500. The decline ranges are based on S&P 500’s peak to trough declines for all of its secular bear markets since 1929, as depicted in the table below.
To prepare for extreme U.S. stock market volatility, which is inevitable, do the following:
Cash should be invested in any or all of the following:
*View the 90/10 Crash Protection video to understand why
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The chart below depicts the performance of AlphaTack’s Bull & Bear Tracker, which gained 224% vs. 51% for the S&P 500 from March 2018 to May 2022. The Bull & Bear Tracker is an ideal secular bear market investment vehicle since it fully leverages extreme volatility. The three yellow shaded areas on the chart depict the algorithm’s gains vs. the S&P 500’s declines for the 2018, 2020, and 2022 volatile periods. For more information about BBT go to AlphaTack.com.
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