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- Eugene Fama: Why You Can't Time the Market
- For decades, the notion that markets are efficient has been a broadly held belief. So how could so many markets crash simultaneously? Eugene Fama, the father of the efficient market theory, answers the skeptics. His bottom line: If markets are efficiently priced, why did they crash?...
- Articles 2009-03-09
- Great Minds on the Market
- Even market high priests have been humbled by the massacre of the Dow. For wisdom that goes beyond the same old advice, listen to these four. The worst financial markets in a generation have thrown into question virtually every long-held tenet of investing. Conclusions backed by 70 years of history...
- Articles 2009-03-09
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- Eugene Fama Drinks His Own Brand of Kool-Aid
- Economist Eugene Fama, father of the "efficient market hypothesis," says financial institutions are casualties -- not the cause -- of the financial crisis by Alain Sherter
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- Eugene F. Fama; Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago.(P&I at 30: The difference-makers)
- Byline: Barry B. Burr Eugene F. Fama is a founder of modern portfolio theory, or as he prefers to call it, portfolio theory. For 40 years, he has been one of the great intellectuals of financial economics. In 1960,...
- Research articles 2003-10-27
- Passive far from passe.
- After a rocky start, indexing gains a foothold among pension funds as a legitimate option for managing money. Index funds had their genesis in the mid-'60s in Eugene Fama's efficient market hypothesis. But probably the first effort to implement t After a...
- Research articles 1998-10-19
- What Is Market Efficiency?
- When money is put into the stock market, it is done with the aim of generating a return on the capital invested. Many investors try not only to make a profitable return but also to outperform, or "Beat," the market. However, market efficiency - detailed in the Efficient Market Hypothesis...
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- Working Through the Efficient Market Hypothesis
- An important debate among stock market investors is whether the market is efficient - that is, whether it reflects all the information made available to market participants at any given time. The Efficient Market Hypothesis EMH maintains that all stocks are perfectly priced according to their inherent investment properties, the...
- White papers 2004-02-20
- It's not one dimensional - that's the theory.
- Jun 28, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) Fund manager Dimensional uses the services of two university professors to guide its investment decisions. Eugene Fama of the University of Chicago has a theory that investors will never really beat the market,...
- Research articles 2005-06-29
- How Should "Black Swans" Affect Your Investment Plan?
- In his book The Black Swan, Nissam Nicholas Taleb uses the term "black swans" to refer to rare events that are: Outside the realm of expectations Extreme in impact Easily explainable after the fact, though nearly impossible to have forecasted ahead of time ...
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- The Price Isn't Always Right
- The efficient market hypothesis dreamed up by Eugene Fama at Chicago in the late 1960s envisioned a market in which "security prices at any time ‘fully reflect' all available information." This theory gained tremendous power over scholars and regulators. For decades, most academic research into financial markets began with the...
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- In Defense of Efficient Markets
- Justin, let me first note that in your book, which I very much enjoyed, you make many gracious acknowledgements to the efficient markets hypothesis EMH, such as the basic implication that it is very, very difficult to outperform the market. To outperform the market is incredibly hard, as evidenced by...
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- 'PASSIVE not STUPID'.(Face to Face)
- Byline: Arleen Jacobius If you want to bring a smile to his face, ask David G. Booth about the less-than-conventional investment strategies of Dimensional Fund Advisors, the money management firm he co-founded. A former teaching assistant for Professor Eugene F. Fama at the University...
- Research articles 2003-09-01
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