«Although we are pleased with these annual results, this relatively short - term performance is far less meaningful than our long - term results as financial markets can move sharply in either
direction over shorter time horizons,» CPPIB chief executive Mark Wiseman said Friday as the fund manager released its annual report for the year ended March 31.
Time frames and incentives may be mismatched if leave decisions produce «fuzzy,» long - run results when policy makers and businesses seek clear
impact over shorter time horizons.
There can be ups and downs in between but a value investor must hold on; there are studies that show that value investing strategies are less
reliable over short time horizons because of the unpredictability of financial markets.
Even though the contest will still run over 6 months [Corrected from 3 - 6 months — DM], the luck component is substantially reduced, even though
results over a short time horizon are highly affected by luck and momentum.
Assessing our portfolios» performance is a necessary activity, but by being aware that
measurement over shorter time horizons is dominated by noise, we can better resist the natural human instinct to «do something»
And like Model 1, the dividend growth model is all but
useless over a short time horizon, as is painfully obvious in Figure 2, but it does have merit at longer horizons.
I suspect that might be because though the indexes existed over their test period, tradeable index funds may not have existed, so in the individual strategy components they might be
done over shorter time horizons, and then used indexes for the backtest.
So over the short time horizon we are talking about (7 - 10 years to retirement), you'll get much better results by learning from this Blog (working on your spending), than you will by trying to be a fancy market - beating investor.
On the other hand, the more aggressive the asset allocation, the higher the initial spending rate — with one caveat: As the equity percentage approaches 100 %, the return volatility will likely increase, and
over shorter time horizons may actually increase the chance of prematurely running out of money.»