Performance Under Pressure, Complicated Cross Currents

Two big things you need to know today: First, actively managed long-only funds are underperforming their benchmarks for the year in most of the US categories we are tracking, with Small Cap Value emerging as a bright spot. Second, the cross currents for US equities are getting more complicated based on our high frequency indicators. We discuss negatives (sentiment, flows, valuations vs. Europe) and positives (better economic expectations, and the broadening of leadership) that we see.