Charlotte nativ&squo;s Super stock predictor

Washington & Lee University highbrow George Kester has a turn on Sunday’s large game, with his Super Bowl Stock Market Predictor that foresees great things for 2010.

Kester says given both a New Orleans Saints as well as Indianapolis Colts have roots in a strange National Football League, bonds should be up this year.

The formula: If a winning group is from a aged American Football League, a marketplace will decline. Original NFL roots? Bull marketplace ahead.

His complement has put him in a media spotlight this week, utterly a tour from when he attended UNC Charlotte during night to consequence his master’s grade in commercial operation administration department whilst operative during First Union National Bank during a day.

Kester as well as wife, Karen Woody Kester, both grew up in Charlotte. He’s a 1966 Myers Park grad. She graduated from West Mecklenburg High School in 1967.

Kester’s work will be published in a “Journal of Investing,” this spring. The initial such investigate was published in 1990, as well as Kester updated a findings. He found that over a march of a event’s 43-year history, a Super Bowl leader has rightly likely either a marketplace will go up or down 77 percent of a time.

He additionally combined a twist.

Kester, a university’s Martel Professor of Finance given 2000, assembled a back-test with a commencement portfolio of $1,000 that he invested in S&P 500 bonds or Treasury bills, depending on that group won a Super Bowl. His tongue-in-cheek plan would have resulted in twice as most resources as a pacifist buy-and-hold method, he says.

“The dollar values of a portfolios during a finish of 2008 would have been $43,000 for a buy-and-hold plan as well as $105,000 for a Super Bowl market-timing strategy.” – Doug Miller

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