DelLTI · Investment · Richardson et al. (2005)

Change in long-term investment

Long minus short decile portfolio, value-weighted, market-adjusted. Quarterly, 1952Q3 to 2024Q4.

Expected return · posterior mean, % per year, averaged over the window
Next quarter
2026Q4
2.83%
95% interval 0.53% to 5.65%
Next year
2026Q4–2027Q3
2.80%
95% interval 0.52% to 5.56%
Next five years
2026Q4–2031Q3
2.67%
95% interval 0.47% to 5.25%

Forecast made 16 Sep 2026, conditioning on this portfolio's OAP returns, which end 2024Q4. The 7 quarters between then and 2026Q4 are unobserved and are integrated out under the model.

Cumulative market-adjusted return

+360% since 1952Q3 · log scale

Past performance, annualized

Window Mean Vol. Sharpe t
1952Q3–2024Q4 2.49% 8.79% 0.28 2.41
2020Q1–2024Q4 8.75% 14.52% 0.60 1.35
2024Q1–2024Q4 22.81% 19.42% 1.17 1.17

Forecast Sharpe ratio, annualized

Window Mean 95% interval P(neg)
2026Q4 0.32 0.06 – 0.65 0.01
2026Q4–2027Q3 0.31 0.06 – 0.60 0.01
2026Q4–2031Q3 0.28 0.05 – 0.51 0.01
Category
Investment
Form
Continuous
Data
Accounting
Sorted on
Low minus high
Names per leg
399 long / 419 short median · 41 at the 10th pctile
Original sample
1962–2001