Not exact matches
Reversion to the
mean will
always trump, greed, optimism, liquidity and stupidity.
«People in this business
always want
to be in the top decile, and that's a laudable goal, but
mean reversion says that if you're in the top decile, you're likely going
to be in the bottom decile,» O'Neill said.
There will
always be the pull
to the mass (it's called
reversion to the
mean, or average).
As for the Treasury market — the yield on the securities will
always serve as an aid
to mean -
reversion, and if there is no fundamental change, it will happen quickly.
Furthermore, attempting
to time
mean reversion is almost
always a losing proposition.
Always remember that qualitative factors tend
to revert
to the
mean (
mean reversion).
Paragraph 2: First, rebalancing is almost
always a good idea, but it presumes the asset classes / subclasses in question is high quality enough that it will
mean - revert, and that your time horizon is long enough
to benefit from the
mean reversion when it happens.
It's the basics of
mean reversion, asset prices will
always revert
to its average eventually.
Of course, it does imply
mean reversion & economic flexibility — so you
always want
to watch out for the exception: A secular / permanent step - change in a country's circumstances, and / or an inability
to adjust
to changing circumstances.
The earth's climate in the last several hundred thousand years has
always been best described as a long - term random walk with
reversion -
to - the -
mean characteristics.