All other systems — whether Graham & Dodd fundamental analysis, or
Modern Capital Theory, or Technical - Chartist Approaches — are involved with predicting near - term price movements for securities.
Such market participants include day traders, chartist - technicians; asset allocators; market participants financed with borrowed money; participants untrained in fundamental analysis; participants who don't read disclosure documents; believers in
Modern Capital Theory (The Efficient Market Hypothesis & Efficient Portfolio Theory); behaviorists and psychologists.
Since the early 1960's,
Modern Capital Theory as embodied in the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) and Efficient Portfolio Theory (EPT) has taken over corporate finance.
Modern Capital Theory (MCT), like Value Investing, focuses on investments by OPMIs.
Modern Capital Theory (MCT) describes only the trading environment and misses completely the need for a balanced approach to understand almost any business enterprise.
The raison d'etre for Index Funds arise out of the underlying assumptions of
Modern Capital Theory (MCT).
Reconciling
Modern Capital Theory and Value Investing Copyright © 2016 by Martin J. Whitman.
Modern Capital Theory (MCT) concentrates on market decisions and provides valuable lessons for specific markets consisting of Outside Passive Minority Investors (OPMIs) who deal in «sudden death» securities, i.e., options, warrants, risk arbitrage, heavily margined portfolios, trading strategies and performing loans with short - fuse maturities.
In a mutual fund industry that has spawned narrower and narrower niches in response to the teaching of
Modern Capital Theory (MCT) and the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH), Third Avenue has charted a unique path.
The Fund, purely and simply, rejects
modern capital theory as totally invalid for buy - and - hold value investors.
The vast majority of investment companies, as well as the dollar value of funds, are managed by disciples of
modern capital theory, i.e., believers in an «efficient market.»
«
Modern Capital Theory is of little or no help to those involved primarily with making investment decisions — value investors, control investors, most distress investors, credit analysis, and first and second stage venture capital investors» Marty Whitman
Not exact matches
Historically, before federal
capital gains taxes and
Modern Portfolio
Theory shifted the industry to a focus on growth, dividends were the primary source of investor returns (see Figure 1), and over the past twelve years dividends have been the only source of investor returns.
Yep that may be why I was brain washed on «
modern portfolio
theory», CAPM, efficient frontier,
capital market line and the math behind these
theories.
I keep toying with an idea that would replace
Modern Portfolio
Theory, with something that would use contingent claims theory to develop a consistent cost of capital model for enterp
Theory, with something that would use contingent claims
theory to develop a consistent cost of capital model for enterp
theory to develop a consistent cost of
capital model for enterprises.
I have never liked using MPT [
Modern Portfolio
Theory] for calculating the cost of equity
capital for two reasons:
These blind spots are distorted reflections of the perfect market assumptions underpinning the canonical
theories of financial economics:
modern portfolio
theory; the Modigliani and Miller
capital structure irrelevancy principle; the
capital asset pricing model and, perhaps most importantly, the efficient market hypothesis.
I have consistently been a critic of
modern portfolio
theory, the Modigliani and Miller
capital structure irrelevancy principle, the
capital asset pricing model and, the efficient market hypothesis.
Modern Portfolio
Theory concepts such as Alpha and Beta, Standard Deviation, the Sharpe ratio,
Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), Regression, and R - squared have provided a foundation for debate that has continued to provide additional insight into the relationship between investment risk and returns.
Technology was the enabler for pillars of
modern finance like the
capital asset pricing model, Modigliani - Miller theorems and Black - Scholes option
theory.