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...In an ingenious bit of marketing, factors are sometimes called “smart beta”. People like Asness and Sharpe himself hate the term, as it implies that other forms of beta are dumb....
...agree with Kolanovic’s point about analysts that change their year-end forecasts more often than their underwear, but it seems a bit odd to argue that he simply was not wrong yet (being only off by one sigma...
...Moreover, a rebound “is cold comfort for investors who suffered through years of underperformance [and] then redeemed”, said Andrew Beer, managing member at Dynamic Beta Investments....
...With all its increasing prevalence and consummate kitschness, we are nonetheless firmly in the beta stages of this phenomenon....
...CV: Mark Wiedman Born Long Island, NY, aged 48 Education AB degree, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, in Social Studies from Harvard College, 1992, and JD degree from Yale Law School in 1996....
...Sean Healey’s CV Born May 9 1961 Pay $13.9m (2016) Education 1979-83 AB Harvard College, history and literature, magna cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa 1983-84 MA University College Dublin, political philosophy...
...This issue is compounded when looking to enter an area of the market that is relatively undeveloped, such as smart beta products,” says Mr King....
...He is a member and former leader of Kappa Beta Phi, a hush-hush Wall Street society (motto: “while we live, we eat and drink”)....
...For Andrew Lo of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the world’s most respected financial theorists, the problem with “smart beta” is that it can easily morph into “dumb sigma” — the Greek letter...
...A host of philanthropic ventures, such as Pi Beta Phi, are waging pro-literacy campaigns for adults and children....
...Roose crashes the gala of Kappa Beta Phi, the Wall Street secret society whose members are the 1 per cent of the 1 per cent....
...Mr Coll graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Cum Laude, from Occidental College in 1980 with a degree in English and history. He lives in New York....
...Sir, As a liberal arts graduate and member of Phi Beta Kappa who has taught thousands of students online and in the classroom over the last decade, I believe we should reconsider Luke Johnson’s comments...
...Chairman Levitt graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Williams College in 1952 before serving two years in the U.S. Air Force....
...Being chosen to become a member of The International Honor Society Beta Gamma Sigma, which recognises achievement in the study of business. 3. What is your biggest lesson learnt?...
...Meanwhile, Greek and eurozone officials have become more talkative than a pack of Pi Beta Phi sisters, pouring further confusion and whiplash onto the market....
...Thorsen House, as it is known, has belonged to the Sigma Phi society since 1942....
...At Vassar College, from which she graduated in 1949, she was admitted into the Phi Beta Kappa society, reserved for the brightest students, and was active on the Democratic side of the aisle....
...The MPT doctrine is blind to experience: MPT produces measures such as “sigmas”, “betas”, “Sharpe ratios”, “correlation”, “value at risk”, “optimal portfolios” and “capital asset pricing model” that are...
...MPT produces measures such as “sigmas”, “betas”, “Sharpe ratios”, “correlation”, “value at risk”, “optimal portfolios” and “capital asset pricing model” that are incompatible with the possibility of those...
...Possibly, hedge funds have made markets more stable during the vast majority of times, but potentially more unstable in a four or six sigma event, because of the higher leverage in the system, overall....
...In 1964 he received his BA degree in philosophy at Columbia College, where he graduated summa cum laude, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year....
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