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Five Tips on the Often Fruitless Pursuit of Alpha
by Salil Mehta, Statistical Ideas Humans have been repeating this inefficient ritual for over 700 years, with the…
NFL Parity, Sample Size and Manager Selection | GestaltUGestaltU
[ad_1] We’ve been discussing issues around statistical significance – – most notably, what makes a tested model’s results…
How “Emergent Phenomena” Instigate Turns in the Market
How do you deal with a risk that has never been seen before? I’m going to focus on…
Technical Weekly: Commodities Continue Climb in Rank
by SIACharts.com With the recent movement from 7th to 5th that we have seen from Commodities in the…
GREEN MOUNTAIN COFFEE ROASTERS (GMCR) NASDAQ - Feb 21, 2014
SIA Charts Daily Stock Report (siacharts.com) The SIA Daily Stock Report utilizes a proven strategy of uncovering outperforming…
Faber’s Ivy Portfolio: As Simple as Possible, But No Simpler (GestaltU)
by Adam Butler, GestaltU We’ve been discussing sources of performance decay, degrees of freedom, and the implied statistical…
Diversification Will Inevitably Lead to Short Term Regrets
by A Wealth of Common Sense “Diversification is always working; sometimes you’ll like the results and sometimes you…
The Hype Around ‘Smart Beta‘ is Getting Annoying
It’s Time for Super-Duper Brilliant Beta! by Rick Ferri Ladies and gentlemen, your life-long search for the perfect…
Costs Matter, But Behavior Matters More
by A Wealth of Common Sense “Scale coupled with automation can basically bring costs down to zero.” –…
William Smead: Wise or Foolish?
by William Smead, Smead Capital Management Warren Buffett says, “What the wise man does in the beginning, the…
Caution: Low Flying Planes
by Jim Hall and Kara Lilly, Mawer Investment Management One sunny afternoon, Paul Moroz, our Deputy CIO, was…
What Was John Bogle Thinking?
by Rick Ferri John C. Bogle was hired by Wellington Management Company in 1951 immediately following his graduation…
Eddy Elfenbein: The Single Best Metric – EV/EBITDA
by Eddy Elfenbein, Crossing Wall Street Here’s a post for new investors—and perhaps a refresher for more experienced…
Why We Get Used to Volatility Regimes
by Tom Brakke, Research Puzzle So we started the year with a little bit of a kerfuffle. It…
Technical Take: TSX Holding Above 13,450 Range Would be Very Bullish
by Ryan Lewenza, North American Equity Strategist, TD Wealth Highlights Despite the recent weakness in the Canadian equity…
