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This article is a prologue to the article "Why Markets are Inefficient: A Gambling 'Theory' of Financial Markets for … important background for that article - why gambling is important, even necessary, for real-world traders, the reason for the … superiority of the strategic/gambling approach to the competing market ideologies of market fundamentalism and the scientific …
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There has been considerable research into dynamic global tactical asset allocation (GTAA) strategies driven by simple measures of Valuation and Momentum applied to a baseline balanced portfolio of equities and fixed income (see Blitz and van Vliet 2008, Wang and Kochard 2011, Gnedenko and Yelnik...
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become part of the basic education of anyone interested in finance or gambling.' …
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Investors are periodically challenged with this question: with funds ready to invest, but faced with a market that is generally perceived to be expensive, is it better to wait for a market correction before investing? Many investors are certain that a correction must be around the corner, and...
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-free penny is worth two pennies of expected but uncertain income, a result born out by modern mathematical advances in the theory …
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You're probably familiar, at least in passing, with the 'convexity' of long-term bonds - i.e. that yields dropping 1% produce a bigger price move than yields rising 1%. A significant amount of brainpower has gone into understanding all the ramifications of this convexity in the fixed income...
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method for answering some of the important questions arising from the interaction of taxes and investing. Investment theory …
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For US investors, international equity exposure has never been so readily available at such a low cost. Nonetheless, surveys indicate US investors typically allocate 80–85% of their equity holdings to US equities, much higher than their proportion of global market value. In this note we...
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Home Bias refers to the tendency to invest more heavily in one's domestic equity market than global market-value proportions would suggest. Whether or not home-biased investing makes sense, the fact is that people in pretty much every country do it. This article addresses the question of whether...
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