ClaimsJeremy Grantham

“I suggested ignoring benchmark or career risk by reducing equity holdings to rock-bottom.”

Jeremy Grantham, GMO letter author April 2012 My Sister's Pension Assets and Agency Problems (GMO)

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Around July 2008 Grantham advised GMO clients to ignore benchmark and career risk and reduce equity holdings to rock-bottom.

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Jeremy Grantham, “Around July 2008 Grantham advised GMO clients to ignore benchmark and career risk and reduce equity holdings to rock-bottom.” (said April 2012). Verdict: not researched. Reliability API, claim c_ba38814e035f, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_ba38814e035f

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More factual claims by Jeremy Grantham

  1. Mostly true Factual January 2016
    “The tone of the market commentators back in January, when I was writing my last quarterly letter, seemed much too pessimistic on global stock markets, particularly the U.S. market, and I said so.”

    In his previous quarterly letter written in January, Grantham said market commentators were too pessimistic on global stock markets, especially the U.S.

  2. Mostly true Factual January 2016
    “I had warned of trouble if China slowed its growth for demand for minerals quickly.”

    Grantham had earlier warned of trouble if China quickly slowed its demand growth for minerals.

  3. Mixed Factual 3 December 2012
    “We have been modeling momentum and value as two key variables for 33 years, so this is pretty old hat.”

    GMO has modeled momentum and value as two key variables for 33 years.

  4. Resolved true Factual 3 December 2012
    “We are solvent, and we have stayed in business.”

    GMO is solvent and has stayed in business.

  5. Mostly true Factual April 2012
    “we were 2 to 3 years early in our calls in both cases.”

    GMO's calls on the Japan 65 P/E market and the 2000 U.S. tech bubble were 2 to 3 years early.

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