Sep 10, 2024
Bespoke is running a “Trick or Treat” special for new subscribers between now and Halloween!
Here’s the deal: pay $39.95 now and you’ll receive a month of access to Bespoke Premium plus your choice of ANY t-shirt or sweatshirt at Bespoke Threads. We’ve just added a number of fun new market-related designs that we think you’ll love.
If you choose to continue with Bespoke Premium past the first month, the subscription renews at $99/month, or you can always change or cancel your subscription at any time.
Simply CLICK HERE or on the image below to sign up with our Trick or Treat special today! Once you pay, someone from Bespoke will reach out so that you can let us know which t-shirt or sweatshirt you’d like to receive.
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Sep 6, 2024
In today’s “$10,000 in…” post, we’re looking at the silver ETF (SLV) that began trading back in 2006. Similar to the gold ETF (GLD), SLV allowed investors to gain exposure to silver in traditional brokerage accounts.
So how would an investor have done hypothetically putting $10,000 into the silver ETF (SLV) back in 2006 when it launched? As shown below, that $10k would be worth a little more than $18,500 today. You would still not even have a doubling of your money more than 18 years later.
As shown below, instead of buying SLV when it launched in 2006, had you bought the gold ETF (GLD) instead, the $10k would now be worth about $35,400.
Back in the early 2010s, SLV kept up with GLD for a bit, but it has lagged pretty badly for the last ten years.
As always, past performance is no guarantee of future results.
Sep 6, 2024
Bespoke’s Consumer Pulse Report is an analysis of a huge consumer survey that we run each month. Our goal with this survey is to track trends across the economic and financial landscape in the US. Using the results from our proprietary monthly survey, we dissect and analyze all of the data and publish the Consumer Pulse Report, which we sell access to on a subscription basis. Sign up for a 30-day free trial to our Bespoke Consumer Pulse subscription service. With a trial, you’ll get coverage of consumer electronics, social media, streaming media, retail, autos, and much more. The report also has numerous proprietary US economic data points that are extremely timely and useful for investors.
We’ve just released our most recent monthly report to Pulse subscribers, and it’s definitely worth the read if you’re curious about the health of the consumer in the current market environment. Start a 30-day free trial for a full breakdown of all of our proprietary Pulse economic indicators.
Sep 3, 2024
While plenty of large-cap companies have dividend yields above 3%, the US market as a whole has a relatively low dividend yield of just 1.29%. Below is a chart showing SPY’s dividend yield at the end of each quarter since it began trading in 1993. As you can see, SPY’s average yield over this entire time frame has been 1.82%, and its current yield is at the very low end of its 30-year range.
A dividend yield of less than 2% may not seem like much, but those payouts really add up and compound over time. In fact, nearly half of the US stock market’s (SPY) total return since 1993 has come from collecting its quarterly dividend and re-investing that cash right back into SPY.
Below is a snapshot of a page from our “Get Invested!” slide-deck that we published last year for clients. It includes a chart of SPY’s simple share-price change since inception versus its total return (dividends re-invested) since inception. Through late March of this year when we last updated this slide-deck, SPY’s price change since inception was 1,063%, while its total return was nearly double that at 1,959%. The 896-percentage point difference between SPY’s simple share-price change and its total return is all a result of re-investing those quarterly dividends paid out by SPY.
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