Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Oliver's Insights: Eugene Fama, Robert Shiller, DAA and me

Key points: 

A good starting point when thinking about investment markets is the concept that they are "efficient" as espoused by Eugene Fama.

But as Robert Shiller and others have shown, the efficient market hypothesis often does not apply in reality as shares are more volatile than can be justified and tend to move in mean reverting cycles.

Combining the work of Fama and Shiller suggests that there is a strong case to invest in indexed funds in highly analysed share markets, eg. US shares, but importantly there is also a strong case for dynamic asset allocation.



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