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Absolute Return Strategies
- Empirical Characteristics of Dynamic Trading Strategies: The Case of Hedge Funds
- The Credit Suisse 130/30 Index: White Paper
- Risk Control Through Dynamic Core-Satellite Portfolios of ETFs: Applications to Absolute Return Funds and Tactical Asset Allocation
- Empirical Characteristics of Dynamic Trading Strategies: The Case of Hedge Funds
- Market Timing Strategies That Worked (2002)
- Creating pools of assets: family investment partnerships, private hedge funds
- SYSTEMATIC TREND FOLLOWING AND RELATIVE STRENGTH ETF MODELS, STRATEGIES, AND SYSTEMS
- Multifactor Explanations of Asset Pricing Anomalies
Alternative Risk Measures
- The Impact of Asymmetry on Expected Stock Returns: An Investigation of Alternative Risk Measures
Asset Allocation (Conventional)
- The Equal Importance of Asset Allocation and Active Management
- The Importance of Asset Allocation - Roger Ibbotson
- The Asset Allocation Hoax by William W Jahnke (1997)
Asymmetric Reaction to News
- Investor Reaction to Good and Bad News is Asymmetric
Asymmetric Trading Systems
Asymmetry in Price Trends
- Asymmetric Momentum Strategies on Growth Markets
Behavioral Finance
- Inefficient Markets: An Introduction to Behavioral Finance
- A Risk Perception Primer: A Narrative Research Review of the Risk Perception Literature in Behavioral Accounting and Behavioral Finance (2004)
- Cognitive Bias
- Behavioral Finance: examining how psychological factors affect financial decisions.
- Outcome Bias in Decision Evaluation
- Andrew Lo A student of Investor Behavior Explains How Human Psychology Plays a Key Role in Financial Crises
- Information Asymmetry, Price Momentum, and the Disposition Effect
- Illusory Superiority
- Workshop in Behavioral Finance
- Positive Illusions
- Rober Shiller Lecture on Behavioral Finance: The Role of Psychology
- Over-optimism and Optimism Bias
- Behavioral Finance and Behavior Economics
- Illustion of Control
- What is Behavioral Economics?
- The Disposition to Sell Winners Too Early and Ride Losers Too Long: Theory and Evidence
- Disposition Effect
- Overconfidence
- A Model of Investor Sentiment: Underreaction and Overreaction Barberis, Shleifer and Vishny (1998)
- Asymmetric Contests with Conditional Investments
- Dynamics of Asset Returns Considering Investors' Asymmetric Risk Preferences
- Daniel Kahneman
- Confirmation Bias
- Underreaction and Overreaction
- Asymmetric responses to winning and losing investments
- A Survey of Behavioral Finance
- From Efficient Markets to Behavioral Finance
- Academy of Behavioral Finance & Economics (ABF)
Beliefs
- This is John Galt Speaking
Definitions
- Dalbar Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavior (QAIB)
- Relative Return - Defined
- Paradox - Defined
- Cyclical and Secular Bull and Bear Markets - Defined
- Tactical Asset Allocation - Defined
- Crowd Sentiment and Investor Sentiment - Defined
- Absolute Return - Defined
- A Full Market Cycle - Defined
- Trend Following - Defined
- Tracking Error or Tracking Risk Defined
- Buy and Hold Definition
- Activism
- What is a Contrarian?
- Symmetrical Distribution (Symmetry) Definition
- Empirical: Data, Finding, and Method, Defined
- Qualitative Research
- Quantitative Research Defined
- Asymmetric Volatility Phenomenon (AVP) Defined
- Anecdotal Evidence Definition
- What is an Accredited Investor? Accredited Investor Defined
- What does Systematic mean?
- What does Empirical (testing, results, etc.) mean?
- Scientific Method
- Law of Small Numbers
- What is the illusion of asymmetric insight?
- Index Definition
- Passive Index Investing Definition
- Active Risk Management Defined
- Algorithm Defined
- Closet Index Fund Defined
- What is an Exchange Traded Fund (ETF)?
- Asymmetry and Symmetry Definitions from Statistica
- Information Asymmetry Defined
- Correlation Coefficient (Pearson Correlation)
- What is a family office? Family office defined
- What does Global Tactical Asset Allocation (GTAA) mean?
- Meritocracy Defined
- Technical Analysis
- Pie Chart
- Portfolio Management Fee and Performance Incentive Fee
- Barclay Hedge Fund Index
- Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index
- Autocorrelation, Serial Correlation, Lagged Correlation, Defined
Dynamic Asset Allocation
- Dynamic Asset Allocation: a tool for seeking reduced risk and enhanced returns (brochure)
- Adaptive Asset Allocation Policies
ETF Exchange Traded Funds
- Exploring ETFs
Efficient Market Hypothesis
- Greenspan Admits Flaw in His Beliefs: That Markets are Rational and Efficient
- How Greenspan's Framework and Efficient Market Hypothesis Went Awry - Daniel Kahneman
- Benoit Mandelbrot Critique on Efficient Market Hypothesis
- Robert Shiller Lecture on Efficient Market Hypothesis
- The Efficient Market Hypothesis on Trial: A Survey by Philip S. Russel and Violet M. Torbey
- The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
- What is a market anomaly?
General
- Asymmetry™, Asymmetry Investment Program™, and Asymmetry Capital Partners™
Global Tactical Rotation
- Global Tactical Rotation
Institutional Investors
- A SEC Questionnaire for Selecting and Monitoring Pension Consultants to be used by Plan Fiduciaries
Investor Sentiment
- Using Investor Sentiment as a Contrarian Indicator
- How a Bear Market Low Develops: Loss Traps, Panic Selling and Waterfall Declines
Modern Portfolio Theory
- Portfolio Selection. Harry Markowitz (1952) Modern Portfolio Theory
- Market Efficiency: A Theoretical Distinction and So What? by Harry M. Markowitz
Momentum and Relative Strength
- Momentum Investing by Tobias J Moskowitz PhD
- Time Series Momentum: A Trending Walk Down Wall Street
- A Unified Theory of Underreaction, Momentum Trading and Overreaction in Asset Markets
- Dissecting Anomalies - Momentum is Pervasive
- A Synthesis on Stock Momentum
- Do Industries Explain Momentum?
- Returns to Buying Winners and Selling Losers: Implications for Stock Market Efficiency - Jegadeesh Titman (1993)
- Profitability of Momentum Strategies an Evaluation of Alternative Explainations by Jegadeesh & Titman 2001
- The 52-Week High and Momentum Investing
- The 52-week High and Momentum investing Revisited
- The Long-Lasting Momentum in Weekly Returns
- Momentum Defined
- Relative Strength as a Criterion for Investment Selection
- Momentum and Relative Strength Papers from Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association
- A test of the Investor's Business Daily stock ranking system
- Industry Information and the 52-Week High Effect
- Time Series Momentum and Cross Sectional Momentum
- Style investing and momentum investing: A case study
- Momentum - A Contrarian Case for Following the Herd by Tom Hancock GMO
- Market Cycles and the Performance of Relative-Strength Strategies
- Is momentum investing a viable strategy for individual investors?
- Momentum - A Contrarian Case for Following the Herd
- A Case for Index ETF Sector Rotation with Relative Strength
- Momentum Strategies
- Global Tactical Asset Allocation ETF Models and Strategies
- Momentum and Mean-Reversion in Strategic Asset Allocation
- The Case for Momentum Investing
- Relative strength momentum portfolio
- Momentum by Narasimhan Jegadeesh and Sheridan Titman
Money Management
- An Edge, Defined
- Asymmetric and Exponential Nature of Losses
Non-Normal Distribution
- Parting with the Bell Curve: Interview with Dr. Svetlozar Rachev
- Asymmetrical Distribution Defined
- Asymmetric Returns and Sector Specialists
- The truth about asymmetric market returns: fat-tails and black swans
- Fat-Tailed and Skewed Asset Return Distributions : Implications for Risk Management, Portfolio Selection, and Option Pricing
Prospect Theory
- Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision Under Risk
- Advances in Prospect Theory: Cumulative Representation of Uncertainty
Random Walk Hypothesis
- Should Finance Professors Take the Blame for the Financial Crisis?
- Random Walks in Stock Prices by Eugene Fama (1965)
- The Myth of the Rational Market
Research Papers
- Papers on the Predictability of Returns, Technical Analysis, and Trading Strategies
- A New Anomaly: The Cross-Sectional Profitability of Technical Analysis
- Risk and Volatility: Econometric Models and Financial Practice
The Case for Active Portfolio Management
- How Active is Your Fund Manager? A New Measure That Predicts Performance
Trend Following
- A New Anomaly: The Cross-Sectional Profitability of Technical Analysis
- Evaluating a Market Timing Strategy
- Evaluating a Trend-Following Commodity Index for Multi-Period Asset Allocation
Underreaction
- Nonlinearity in the dynamics of financial markets
- The Disposition Effect and Underreaction to News
- Persistence of Beliefs in an Investment Experiment Abstract

Index Definition

Index — An imaginary portfolio of securities representing a particular market or a portion of it. Stock and bond market indexes are used to construct index mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) whose portfolios mirror the components of the index.

The Standard & Poor's 500 is one of the world's best known indexes, and is the most commonly used benchmark for the stock market. It is not possible to invest directly in an index. Other prominent indexes include the DJ Wilshire 5000 (total stock market), the MSCI EAFE (foreign stocks in Europe, Australasia, Far East) and the Lehman Brothers Aggregate Bond Index (total bond market).

Because, technically, you can't actually invest in an index, index mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (based on indexes) allow investors to invest in securities representing broad market segments and/or the total market. Exchange traded funds (ETFs) or index funds may be invested in passively or tactically.

Source: Investopedia