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From “Hard to Beat” to Nigh-On Impossible
Our SPIVA® reports have shown, year after year, that market-cap weighted benchmarks are, to put it kindly, hard to beat. However, in 2019 a range of circumstances made “hard to beat” become nigh-on impossible for the S&P 500®. In general, there are three common ways by which an active portfolio can outperform its benchmark: over…
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Valuing Low Volatility: Does Timing Matter?
If early January is any indication, 2016 should be another year when low volatility strategies will be in vogue. Popularized in the turmoil following the financial crisis in 2008, low volatility strategies, as the name denotes, serve well in times of equity upheaval. And despite bearing lower risk low volatility strategies have outperformed their benchmarks…
History, Real and Simulated
Show me a man who’s never been burned by relying on a backtest and I’ll show you a man who’s never relied on a backtest at all (either that or a fictional character). Skepticism toward backtested results is endemic among investment professionals, and rightly so. And yet… when a new concept comes along, backtested performance…
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