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Heeten Doshi B. G., Opalesque Geneva: Many investors, academics, and financial professionals believe market timing is impossible. Other investors, especially active traders, believe strongly in it. Market timing is the act of moving investment money in or out of a financial market or switching funds between asset classes based on predictive methods. Market timing is most popular at the bottom of bear markets and least popular at the late stages of a bull market. Buy-and-hold behaviour is the reverse. Currently buy-and-hold seems to be more popular than it has been in at least a decade, whi...

Robert Zuccaro B. G., Opalesque Geneva: Robert Zuccaro, a quantitative investment pioneer and founder of Target QR Strategies, raises a new angle to this year's debate on growth stocks versus value stocks. Russell Investments predicted that value stocks would outperform growth stocks this year. "Much of their case rests on the 'regression to the mean' theory given significant underperformance by value stocks relative to growth stocks over the past 15 years." But the rationale ignores the underlying fundamentals that favour growth stocks, says Zuccaro in a recent commentary seen by Opalesqu...