Robert Haugen Quotes

In real-world Finance, they don't pay for elegance. They pay for power - predictive power.

A comprehensive list of factors brings predictive stability and predictive stability and predictive power.

Less volatile stocks tend to have negative abnormal profits; more volatile stocks tend to have positive abnormal profits.

If we observe the performance of only those funds that remain active, we will tend to find that the average performance of the surviving funds exceeds that of the market.

The cheaper the stock, the better the outlook for future returns.

When you buy a lottery ticket, you don't know how tickets have been sold. But sold they have been. And there is an underlying distribution for the game.

CAPM also makes use of what is called a "definitional identity." This is something that is automatically true, simply because of the way things have been defined.

So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance.