It is widely used to assess the richness or cheapness of the equity market relative to its own history, and to make forecasts of the long - run return on equities, a vital input
into asset allocation processes and retirement saving and...
In their December 2016 book - length paper entitled «Factor Investing and
Asset Allocation: A Business Cycle Perspective», Vasant Naik, Mukundan Devarajan, Andrew Nowobilski, Sebastien Page and Niels Pedersen examine the
process of translating macroeconomic forecasts
into alpha - generating portfolios via mean - variance optimization.