Outperformance in rising markets may indicate speculative behavior on the part of the portfolio manager.
Not exact matches
His evidence:
rising short rates, low long - term rates (suggestive of little inflation), the
rise in value stocks, and
outperformance in emerging
markets relative to U.S. equities.
Looking at quarterly data, since 1990 every one percentage point
rise in industrial commodity prices (using the JOC Industrial Metals Index) has translated into roughly 0.30 %
outperformance by emerging
markets.
The potential addition of a small, rebalanced position
in a strategy such as Short VIX could act to diminish the risk of underperformance
in rising markets, and provides a potentially coherent way to capture two complementary sources of behavioral
outperformance.
Low Volatility equity strategies have generated their long - term
outperformance in part by mitigating losses
in down
markets; the price of this loss mitigation is that low vol strategies underperformed
in rising markets.