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All of this reflects a very deliberate & fairly permanent allocation strategy — all in support of my quest for greater diversification & less correlation in my portfolio.

Not exact matches

Nike CFO Andy Campion gave some extra clarity about future orders on the company's conference call, saying there had been less correlation between orders and revenue than in the past, and thus Nike would change how it would report those figures in future quarters (likely to de-emphasize Wall Street's attention to those numbers).

Anecdotally, it appears market participants may be using relatively more liquid instruments to hedge exposures in other less liquid market segments, perhaps unintentionally contributing to increased correlation across markets.

It should be noted, however, that this relationship is not perfect; in certain environments, gold miner stocks and physical gold prices can move in opposite directions, and correlation between the two can be less than perfect.

Unfortunately, attempts at diversification through public market investing alone have become less effective in recent years due to a rise in correlations between public investments.

In addition to commodity ETFs, currency ETFs, fixed - income ETFs, and (to a lesser degree) international ETFs can provide the same benefit of low US stock market correlation.

Small caps (Russell 2000) and to a lesser extent Nikkei and EM equities in stocks all have below - average vol and correlations today to S&P 500; makes index hedges cheaper, although the lower level of realized volatility means consensus is looking for an even better entry point to buy equity vol.»

Moreover, passive investments can be less liquid in volatile markets, and reduced central - bank stimulus could mean lower correlations.

Many of the extreme ones are in positions of power, because there's usually a correlation between lack of morals, and religious zealotry, and the less extreme but not in power just follow along like sheep because that's what they are taught to do.

That would force a deeper recognition that, in our capacities as consumers as well, there is far less correlation than has been supposed between the richness of human experience and the quantity and quality of goods and services consumed.

In fact, bar Henrikh Mkhitaryan, there is a clear correlation on the list, the more goals you score, the less assists you make, and vice versa.

And also the correlation between your truly - terrified - of - poop friend and your own fears — your imagination is generally worse than reality, and even when reality IS pretty gross (like that time my baby had an explosive poop all over my lap at a restaurant that only had the tiniest bathroom ever, like there wasn't enough room between the toilet and the door for the diaper bag, much less a three - month - old) you just sort of... take it in stride and deal with it, knowing that the benefits of babies and children outweigh the occasional brush with grossness.

Once again, the correlation is strong and positive (r =.93, p < 0.001, n = 12), confirming that Europeans in 2008 were less sanguine about poorer countries being admitted to the EU.

, Gun prevalence vs homicide rates - correlation and causation, and Same amount of weapons per person in Canada as in USA, far less murders.

Matching the models with stalagmites There was a much clearer correlation between less rainfall in the region and the Heinrich events, Carolin said.

[Jeff Weeks, a mathematician who is working with Spergel to analyze WMAP's data, says, «The large - scale temperature correlations across the sky are much less than one would expect in an infinite universe but exactly what one would expect in a finite one.»]

The analysis also revealed consistent differences in personality traits between first - borns and later - borns — first - borns tended to be more extroverted, agreeable and conscientious, and had less anxiety than later - borns, for example — but those differences were «infinitesimally small,» amounting to a correlation of 0.02, Roberts said.

The branch lengths of the high - variance exon tree showed a strong positive correlation with GC content and a negative correlation with the average body mass of species, seen at a much lesser magnitude in the low - variance exon tree (Fig. 6, A to D).

«We're showing the biological underpinnings of these correlations, and understand whether genetic variation may make some people more or less susceptible to certain carcinogens in food, which may have future important implications for prevention and population health.»

In healthy aging, it's less clear, although studies showed that mitochondrial lipid perodixation as strong correlation with MLSP (in mammals) but it's not necessarily 100 % causal but more correlative (studies said that mitochondrial membrane peroxidation contributes about 30 % in intrinsic aging weight; not 100 % itself alonIn healthy aging, it's less clear, although studies showed that mitochondrial lipid perodixation as strong correlation with MLSP (in mammals) but it's not necessarily 100 % causal but more correlative (studies said that mitochondrial membrane peroxidation contributes about 30 % in intrinsic aging weight; not 100 % itself alonin mammals) but it's not necessarily 100 % causal but more correlative (studies said that mitochondrial membrane peroxidation contributes about 30 % in intrinsic aging weight; not 100 % itself alonin intrinsic aging weight; not 100 % itself alone.

We first demonstrate less variability of global Pearson correlations with respect to the two chosen networks using a sliding - window approach during WM task compared to rest; then we show that the macroscopic decrease in variations in correlations during a WM task is also well characterized by the combined effect of a reduced number of dominant CAPs, increased spatial consistency across CAPs, and increased fractional contributions of a few dominant CAPs.

The spatial smoothness of T2 * images was greater at 3 T by less than 1 mm, suggesting that the greater extent of activation at 3 T beyond these spatial scales was not due primarily to increased intrinsic spatial correlations at 3 T. Rather, the increase in percentage of voxels activated reflects increased sensitivity for detection of brain activation at higher field strength.

A negative correlation is expected if slightly deleterious mutations, and possibly also genes that are less constrained, accumulate in regions of the genome with low recombination frequency because of the reduced efficiency of natural selection.

Ironically, when we look at plant protein — which The China Study argues so vigorously is cancer - protective — we find almost three times as many positive correlations with various cancers as we do with animal protein, including colon cancer, rectal cancer, and esophageal cancer.20 Likewise, for heart disease and stroke, plant protein has a positive correlation while animal protein and fish protein have negative or nearly neutral correlations — meaning the animal - food eaters in rural China, if anything, are getting less cardiovascular disease than their more vegetarian friends.

The 2010 Committee Opinion of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists stated that «Moderate caffeine consumption (less than 200 mg per day) does not appear to be a major contributing factor in miscarriage;... a final conclusion can not be made as to whether there is a correlation between high caffeine intake and miscarriage15.»

TRUTH: What's said in the bestselling book «The China Study» does not match the findings of the actual China; Cornell - Oxford Study, in which there was no correlation with more or less disease in people eating a lot of plant foods.

A higher risk for COPD was found in persons who smoked, but there was also a COPD correlation with persons of lower household incomes, less education, and lower BMI (body mass index).

That highly - quantitative theory ignores conventional baseball wisdom, scouting reports and popular stats like batting averages and RBIs in favor of lesser - appreciated indicators like slugging and on - base percentages which apparently have a higher correlation to wins and losses.

Try this thought experiment with another observed practice to illustrate my point about how the results are being mis - reported... The correlation between student observations that «My teacher seems to know if something is bothering me» and value added was.153, which was less than the.195 correlation for «We spend a lot of time in this class practicing for [the state test].»

In her research, Professor Dweck demonstrates a direct correlation between having a growth mindset and living a less stressful and more successful life.

The report, coauthored by FutureEd's Phyllis W. Jordan and Raegen Miller, reviews the research on absenteeism and its correlation to student performance and well - being: Less time in school results in «weaker reading skills, higher retention rates, and lagging development of the social skills needed to persist in school.»

In an interesting correlation to the price issue, Coker also suggests that factors other than price are going to play a huge role in book selection, especially once consumers grow accustomed to paying $ 4.00 or less for a book on a regular basiIn an interesting correlation to the price issue, Coker also suggests that factors other than price are going to play a huge role in book selection, especially once consumers grow accustomed to paying $ 4.00 or less for a book on a regular basiin book selection, especially once consumers grow accustomed to paying $ 4.00 or less for a book on a regular basis.

@Mike: «From what I've seen, corporate bonds (which are included in TBM) tend to have a higher correlation to the stock market than Treasuries do, thereby making them somewhat less effective as a diversifier.»

Speaking of Vanguard, it's making its second foray in the world of liquid alts (after Vanguard Market Neutral) with Vanguard Alternative Strategies Fund seeks to generate returns that have low correlation with the returns of the stock and bond markets, and that are less volatile than the overall U.S. stock market.

You want to have enough diversity in your stock picks that your overall portfolio becomes less volatile by reducing correlation between your holdings.

Now that we have a mental idea of how the broader stock market performs, we're going to try and use correlation statistics that outperforms them with less volatility (or, in other words, have a significantly superior Sharpe Ratio).

They can also offer better diversification & lower correlation in your portfolio — the possible opportunity & upside you see may be much less dependent on the economy & the market (but far more dependent on that potential transformation & value being realized).

It should be noted, however, that this relationship is not perfect; in certain environments, gold miner stocks and physical gold prices can move in opposite directions, and correlation between the two can be less than perfect.

Larry Swedroe has an article looking at momentum in general that's worth reading, in particular the line about how the strategy becomes less valuable as correlations between global markets increase.

I know correlations depend on each company's particular business model, but I'd prefer to invest in a sugar company when sugar is back down at 12 cents or less, I missed it last time» round.

The low volatility and negative correlation scenario is a different shift — a decrease in required risk premia due to the fact that diversified investment portfolios are less risky to investors.

While looking at the correlation between the level of care provided by cat caregivers and the economic status of the area in which the cats lived, the authors observed that neutered male cats were less aggressive than intact males.

That correlation is «less robust» for feline calicivirus (FCV) and feline herpes virus 1 (FHV - 1) than for FPV, and «a negative test result for FCV or FHV - 1 antibody would not necessarily indicate lack of protection in a particular cat.»

Based on the research, there was a significant correlation (not proving causation, but strong correlation) that owners of small dogs were less likely to train their dogs, less likely to engage in play interaction and had less consistency in training interactions than the owners of larger dogs.

The correlation between these two selection indexes (0.771 — 0.774) is sufficiently less than unity enabling the selection of dogs with different genetic propensity for laxity and for osteoarthritic CHD changes in GSDs; this may also be applicable in other breeds.

The procedure by Benjamini & Yekutieli [19], which keeps at the expected proportion of false positives and is therefore much less conservative, also reveals no significant correlation (adjusted values are reported in the third table columns of Figure 2).

(In less technical terms, the more the dots on your scatterplot resemble a line, the higher the strength of a correlation.)

in my paper indicates that the d - o - f of all the fields is significantly less (and sometimes much, much less) than what you would get in the zero spatial correlation case.

I'm sure the likes of Ackoff would be the first to agree that it is not required «to demonstrate the existence of a correlation» for causality to exist or even to be shown to exist, especially if you attempt very hard not to find such a correlation solely by naively «eyeballing» a graph that plots less than half the relevant data and then backing it up by the announcement «Stupid... in fact I'm not.»

None of the correlations showed an r2 > 0.24 (highest in August), and most were much smaller (especially during the key spring period where the variance explained was less than 5 %).