Investors' Alphabet: J is for J-curve

  • Story by: Stephen Wilmot
  • Magazine: InvestmentAdviser
  • Published Monday , June 30, 2008

We now arrive at an exciting juncture of Investor’s Alphabet. J is not just the first letter of a finer point of finance – it is the very profile of an investment process.

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J is not the only letter to have inspired financial theories.

William De Vijlder, global chief investment officer at Fortis Investments, asked journalists at a recent market outlook conference "which recovery" they predicted.

Four scenarios loomed large on the overhead projector: W, J, L, U.

Most journalists – ever prone to sitting on fences – opted for U, the middle ground between jolly-hockey-sticks J and lugubrious L.

De Vijlder then went on to demonstrate why the economy was in fact due for W.

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