Are We Biased? Bringing Time Series into Behavioural Finance Behavioural Finance, MarketFox Before becoming a professional investor, I was a psychology student at the University of Melbourne. The course took me on an interesting personal journey. In first year, we studied the classic research. Studies such as Pavlov’s conditioning experiments with dogs, Asch’s conformity studies, Milgram’s coerced compliance experiments and Zimbardo’s infamous Stanford prison experiment. By the […] Read More
Interested in Blockchain? There is an ETF for that MarketFox MarketFox columnist Daniel Grioli is back from the United States and tells of his adventures in ETF land. Read More
Searching for the Rolls Royce of ETFs Innovation, MarketFox MarketFox columnist Daniel Grioli is off to the United States to attend a conference on ETFs and in this article he makes the case for active managers to create high-quality, state of the art, ETFs before somebody else does. Read More
Quants Part III – Using the Right Tools for the Job Asset Allocation & Strategy, Factors, Quant & Systematic, MarketFox In this final instalment on quants, MarketFox columnist Daniel Grioli looks at the influence of investors’ time horizon on the usefulness of quantitative techniques. I’ve received several comments from readers defending the usefulness of quantitative techniques. They are definitely useful and they have been widely adopted. Which is why its important to understand their limits. […] Read More
Quants Part II – Quants and Market Timing Factors, Quant & Systematic, MarketFox In part two of the series ‘Quants and Market Timing’, MarketFox columnist Daniel Grioli draws attention to the point that the tools available to us for measuring determine how we phrase questions and hence influences the outcomes. Read More
Quants Part I: Are Quants the Chiropractors of Finance? Behavioural Finance, Factors, Quant & Systematic, MarketFox The danger of relying too much on quantitative models is the implicit belief that unless something can be measured and identified as a factor it doesn’t really exist, Daniel Grioli writes. Read More
How Superannuation Funds Can Play the Rating Game Asset Allocation & Strategy, MarketFox, Risk and Regulation MarketFox columnist Daniel Grioli looks at different ways to game the performance tables of rating agencies. Read More
The Active vs Passive Debate Part III Asset Allocation & Strategy, MarketFox Welcome to part three, the final part of my attempt to take up the Charlie Munger challenge. In case you’ve forgotten, the challenge was for me, an active investor, to argue the case for indexing better than a passive investor. Read More
The Active vs Passive Debate Part II Asset Allocation & Strategy, MarketFox In part II of the active versus passive series, Columnist and MarketFox blogger Daniel Grioli looks at eight reasons why active management often disappoints Read More
