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...Around the time The Magnificent Seven was pulling in cinema crowds, markets were being led by what became known as the “Nifty Fifty”....
...Bargain hunt Can value investing stage a comeback, as it did when the dotcom bubble burst in the early 2000s, or the “Nifty Fifty” failed to justify investor optimism and fell to earth in the 1970s?...
...There are echoes of the “Nifty Fifty” era of the 1970s when the market became fixated on a relatively small number of stocks....
...This pushed up valuations of equities, including our favourite Nifty Fifty....
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...“The closest feel is the Nifty Fifty era when much of the market peaked in the late ’60s but the Nifties carried on until 1972.”...
...Imagine a wealthy client sitting on his porch in the 1970s while a financial adviser tells him to invest money in Nifty Fifty glamour stocks such as Coca-Cola (good) or Polaroid (bad)....
...So, in the early 1870s, investors assumed that railway stocks would rise for ever; in the 1960s they assumed the Nifty Fifty would outperform for ever – regardless of price....
...The company founded by George Eastman in 1880, which used to be a constituent of the “Nifty Fifty” blue-chip companies, is perilously close to filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy....
...But those that get the most comments are the ones on the subjects that I keep coming back to: the gold price, UK property prices, Japan and solid dividend-paying global stocks, aka the New Nifty Fifty....
...A decade ago , the finance professor Jeremy Siegel revisited the Nifty Fifty and calculated what a reasonable p/e ratio would have been with 29 years of perfect foresight....
...Market Insight: Dependable stocks are cheap – and an opportunity The phrase “nifty fifty” conjures mixed emotions in those able to remember that particular episode in investment history....
...We actually, last year, have developed two different indices; we call them Brick Nifty-Fifties....
...UBS has compiled a new “nifty fifty” list of companies from around the world that it feels can take advantage of tough economic times to position for an eventual rebound....
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