Each month, GMO publishes on the web its predictions of the real rate of return for various asset styles over the next seven years. Its web library retains its quarterly predictions, dating back to the end of the second quarter of 2000. This inquiry explores whether they predict the performance...

This paper predicts the stock market using Tobin's q, momentum, the Campbell-Shiller CAPE, and a new variant of the CAPE, the CAPER — trend earnings calculated using regressions of log earnings on time. The CAPER is superior to the CAPE. But q emerges as by far the best of the predictors. Two...

This paper predicts the performance of the stock market using Tobin’s q, momentum, the Campbell-Shiller CAPE, and a new variant of the CAPE, the CAPER, which is trend earnings calculated using regressions of log earnings on time. Generally, the CAPER is superior to the CAPE. But q emerges as...