The Journal of the Society of Actuaries held a contest for articles on investment myths, and we are honored to have had our article on ‘Fallacies of the Fed Model’ chosen for publication in this prestigious journal. We want to thank our co-authors, David Cantor and Kunal Rajani of PriceWaterhouseCoopers, for proposing this collaboration, and for their critical insights and analytical contributions.
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In a recent article published in Financial Analysts Journal, Charles Ellis makes an excellent case for the death of active management. Ellis asserts that the efficiency of a market is a function of the number and quality of active, informed investors at work in the market at any time. As more investor
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This post will be short and sweet as it’s largely an addendum to our previous post NFL Parity, Sample Size and Manager Selection. It was motivated primarily by an interesting analysis by Tom Murphy, a physics professor at the University of California – San Diego. We greatly admire Dr. Murphy and highly recommend his blog.
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Many asset class rotational systems are optimized on lookback horizon (to our observation, most use 120 days), so we thought it would be interesting to investigate the evolution of optimal lookback horizon through time. This allows us to put ourselves in the position of an analyst at different points in history and try to speculate on the choices he might have made given the information at his disposal then.
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As quants and sports fans we often find ourselves analyzing statistics from the sports world. And seeing as college basketball dominates the sports landscape for the next few weeks, it’s no surprise we are inspired to write about the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, aka March Madness.
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We’ve been discussing issues around statistical significance – most notably, what makes a tested model’s results significant and therefore likely to perform in a consistent fashion when implemented in real time. In our last article we discussed what constitutes robustness in the context of testing a trading model.
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