Advisors should look at a range of quantitative metrics, but rely ultimately on accumulated wisdom to make portfolio construction decisions.

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The authors looked at a range of economic metrics including inflation, unemployment, corporate profit growth, stock market performance, household income growth, economy (GDP) growth, months in recession and others.

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If you believe this historic range of returns set up a reasonably stable constant like gravity, then building companies with these metrics in mind is critical.

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