Tag: investment factor
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Use of Factor Investing in Portfolio Design for Retirees and Accumulators
In previous posts I discussed several “factors” – characteristics of stocks – that can be utilized in portfolio construction to seek to improve equity (stock) returns over long periods of time (10-20 years) with a high degree of probability. Over the next 20 years, exposure to these factors brings with it a very strong probability…
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CAN YOU “BEAT THE MARKET”? (An Introduction to Factor-Based Investing)
Is it possible to “beat the market”? Yes – at least with a high degree of probability – over any given 20-year period of time. Permit me to expound upon this theme, with a brief review of “evidence-based investing.” With the rise of computers in the early 1960’s, researchers as universities began to accumulate financial…