Robert Haugen Quotes

• In real-world Finance, they don't pay for elegance. They pay for power - predictive power.

  Robert Haugen

  Real, World, Pay

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, Chapter 13, Counterattack - The Second Wave, p. 129, 1999.

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• The New Finance focused on the market's major systematic mistake. In failing to appreciate the strength of competitive forces in a market economy, it over estimates the length of the short run. In doing so, it overreacts to records of success and failure for individual companies, driving the prices of successful firms too high and their unsuccessful counterparts too low.

  Robert Haugen

  Running, Mistake, Successful

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 15, The Wrong 20-yard Line, p. 142, 1999.

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• In going directly to Investment Heaven, you build your portfolio as you would build a wonderful company through a merger and acquisition program. You specify the way you want your portfolio to look, and then you assemble the profile piece by piece by bringing together companies that make their own individual contributions to the desired character.

  Robert Haugen

  Character, Heaven, Together

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, Chapter 14, The Roads to Heaven and Hell, p. 139, 1999.

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• A comprehensive list of factors brings predictive stability and predictive stability and predictive power.

  Robert Haugen

  Lists, Stability, Comprehensive

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book byRobert Haugen, Chapter 5, Predicting Future Stock Returns with the Expected-Return Factor Model, p. 56, 1999.

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• Although efficient markets people still go around saying there is a "mountain" of evidence supporting their hypothesis, the truth of the matter is that it's a very old mountain that's now eroding rapidly into the sea.

  Robert Haugen

  Sea, People, Mountain

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 1, Introduction, p. 2, 1999.

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• Behaviorists tell us that we tend to overweight and overreact to the most recently received information. If we do, we will find that the information that we thought was so important becomes tempered, and reduced in significance, by new and related information that follows.

  Robert Haugen

  Important, Information, Significance

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, Chapter 12, The Forces behind the Technical Payoffs to Price History, p. 121, 1999.

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• Less volatile stocks tend to have negative abnormal profits; more volatile stocks tend to have positive abnormal profits.

  Robert Haugen

  Negative, Abnormal, Profit

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 11, The Negative Payoff to Risk, p. 113, 1999.

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• If we observe the performance of only those funds that remain active, we will tend to find that the average performance of the surviving funds exceeds that of the market.

  Robert Haugen

  Average, Fund, Performances

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, Chapter 6, Counterattack-The First Wave, p. 63, 1999.

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• The cheaper the stock, the better the outlook for future returns.

  Robert Haugen

  Return, Outlook, Cheaper

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 4, Payoffs to the Five families, p. 50, 1999.

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• When you buy a lottery ticket, you don't know how tickets have been sold. But sold they have been. And there is an underlying distribution for the game.

  Robert Haugen

  Games, Tickets, Lottery Ticket

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 3, Estimating Portfolio Risk and Expected Return with Ad Hoc Factor Models, p. 29, 1999.

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• CAPM also makes use of what is called a "definitional identity." This is something that is automatically true, simply because of the way things have been defined.

  Robert Haugen

  Identity, Use, Way

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 2, Estimating Expected Return with the Theories of Modern Finance, p. 16, 1999.

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• So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance.

  Robert Haugen

  Arrogance, Triumph, Elegance

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 15, The Wrong 20-yard Line, p. 148, 1999.

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