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Low Risk yet Reasonable Return Strategies Using Long Term Stock Market Timing Indicators by ValidFi
What? Are you Madoff? These days, anything related to 'low risk' or 'steady' returns generates skepticism. It is very understandable and perfectly reasonable for investors to have such a feeling, given what have happened in the financial industries. However, if an investor does follow sound and... More »
November 22, 2009 • CIU, CSJ, DBA
Even In Slow Boring Fixed Income Investing, Hot Hands Are Still Hot by ValidFi
Momentum effect, i.e. a phenomenon that past 'hot' funds or assets will continue to be 'hot' in a certain future period, has been widely recognized as a market inefficiency, both by practitioners and academic researchers. Momentum based strategies have been proposed in equity (stocks),... More »
October 12, 2009 • SHV, SHY, IEF
Even In Slow Boring Fixed Income Investing, Hot Hands Are Still Hot by ValidFi
Momentum effect, i.e. a phenomenon that past 'hot' funds or assets will continue to be 'hot' in a certain future period, has been widely recognized as a market inefficiency, both by practitioners and academic researchers. Momentum based strategies have been proposed in equity (stocks),... More »
October 12, 2009 • SHV, SHY, IEF
Some Bonds are Still Attractive by Surly Trader
Volatility and credit spreads are two investment arenas where I feel very comfortable making investment bets. The reason that they are easier to predict is that they are mean reverting investment classes. Volatility and credit spreads often spike due to large dislocations in... More »
October 7, 2009 • CIU, LQD, CFT
Market Timing Strategies Based on Financial and Sentiment Indicators by ValidFi
Market timing strategies have been controversial: academics published many studies in this subject and most of them concluded that it is useless to pursue market timing. On the other hand, practitioners have been using this for many years (explicitly or implicitly). In a paper published by... More »
September 16, 2009 • BWX, CFT, CIU
Portfolio Diversification over Diverse Asset Classes with Multiple Investment Strategies by ValidFi
The 2008 markets taught us a valuable lesson that just merely holding once considered 'diversified' assets in a portfolio is not sufficient or, at best is very difficult, to reduce the systemic risk: during the 2008 market stress, almost all of assets (other than the US treasuries and... More »
July 27, 2009 • SPY, MDY, IWR
What’s All UP? by Richard Shaw
Fixed income continues to be the steady upward asset, but not all fixed income. Sorting through the 270 ETFs with at least $1 million per day in trading volume, looking for those that are strongly upward moving, we find these 13 hitting on all cylinders: [image available at QVM site] Criterion... More »
May 21, 2009 • AGG, BND, BSV

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iShares Lehman Intermediate Credit Bond Index (CIU)

Instablog posts on CIU

Low Risk yet Reasonable Return Strategies Using Long Term Stock Market Timing Indicators by ValidFi

Even In Slow Boring Fixed Income Investing, Hot Hands Are Still Hot by ValidFi

Even In Slow Boring Fixed Income Investing, Hot Hands Are Still Hot by ValidFi

Some Bonds are Still Attractive by Surly Trader

Market Timing Strategies Based on Financial and Sentiment Indicators by ValidFi

Portfolio Diversification over Diverse Asset Classes with Multiple Investment Strategies by ValidFi

What’s All UP? by Richard Shaw

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