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by David Dreman


  role of, 159

  statistics of, 67, 68

  subprime mortgages and, 387, 390, 391–94

  U.S. budget deficit and, 414

  Federal Reserve, U.S, See also Bernanke, Ben; Greenspan, Alan

  Fedorikhin, Alexander, 75

  fees/commissions, 282, 285, 330, 340, 341, 357, 389. See also transaction costs

  Feiger, George, 328

  FFJR. See Fama, Eugene; Fisher, Lawrence; Jensen, Michael; Roll, Richard

  Fidelity Destiny, 308

  Fidelity Investments, 308

  Fidelity Select Telecommunications Equipment fund, 65

  Financial Analysts Journal

  Dreman’s submission of paper to, 257

  forecasting study in, 190–91

  Financial Markets Research Center, 4

  financial ratios

  contrarian strategy and, 290, 290n

  See also specific ratio

  Financial Reform Act (2010), 393

  financial statements, 290

  financial stocks, 291

  Financial World: study of analysts’ results by, 189–90

  First Call, 190

  Fischhoff, Baruch, 39

  Fisher, Lawrence, 146–48, 148n

  Fitch (credit-rating agency), 78–79, 389, 394

  fixed-income securities, 360, 364, 372, 372n, 373–74, 415

  flash crashes, 216, 323, 324–27, 331, 332–33, 335, 355, 356

  Florida: swampland in, 22

  Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 231–32

  Forbes magazine

  criticisms of Dreman’s publications in, 256–57

  and dissent about EMH, 110, 161

  Dreman recommendations in, 292, 294, 295, 296

  Dreman’s column/publications in, 61–62, 63, 110, 130, 161, 178, 190, 254, 256–57, 381, 384

  ranking of mutual funds by, 341, 341n

  Ford, Henry, 15

  Ford Motor Company, 288

  forecasting, 167–84, 185–214

  accuracy of, 7, 180–84, 185–214, 192n, 219, 229, 250, 274, 289, 291

  black swans in, 200

  as characteristic of scientific method, 131

  confidence and, 172–77, 184, 186, 207, 212–14, 230, 310

  consensus, 193–95, 198–99, 219, 220

  contrarian strategies and, 8, 181n, 211, 250, 289, 291

  of earnings estimates, 185–214

  economic conditions and, 196–98, 199

  EMH and, 132, 199, 201, 210

  and extrapolations of current trends, 201, 202

  favored stocks/industries and, 171, 180–84, 272, 310

  and forecasters’ curse, 209–12

  as heart of security analysis, 171

  index funds and, 211

  about industries, 195–97, 199, 274

  information and, 168–77, 180–84, 199–200, 201, 207, 214

  inside and outside, 207–9, 211, 212, 213, 214

  IOH and, 272, 274

  and learning from errors, 200

  as more art than science, 202

  mutual funds and, 192, 211

  and need for new paradigm, 214

  optimism and, 176–80, 197–98, 199, 212–13, 214

  outside, 207–9, 211, 212, 213, 214

  price and, 218, 274

  Psychological Guidelines about, 174–75, 176, 180, 184, 195, 196, 202, 204, 211, 213

  psychology and, 206–8, 211–12

  randomness and, 201–2

  rationality and, 200

  return and, 211

  risk and, 413

  sell recommendations and, 204–6

  surprises and, 7, 217, 218, 219–33, 241

  technology influence on, 212

  unfavored stocks and, 272, 310

  valuation and, 199

  about volatility, 135–37

  foreign investing, 343–46

  Fortune magazine, 98, 136, 259

  Francis, Jennifer, 177–78

  Frank, Barney, 297

  Frankfurter, George, 137

  Freddie Mac, 296–97, 298

  free enterprise: Greenspan views about, 382, 383

  free trade, 403–13

  Freeport-McMoRan, 63

  French, Kenneth, 136–37, 143, 144, 258–59, 270, 270n

  Fridson, Martin S., 290n

  Friedman, Milton, 139

  Friend, Irwin, 94

  functional magnetic resonance imaging, 238

  fundamental analysis, 88, 92–95, 97, 99–100, 104, 128, 152–53

  fundamentals

  Affect and, 46–47, 49–50

  disconnect between price and, 46–47

  futures

  concerns about, 357

  Crash of 1987 and, 105–8, 108n, 109, 112, 112n, 113, 114–15, 116

  EMH and, 105–8, 108n, 109, 112, 112n, 113, 114–15, 116, 120

  HFT and, 325, 325n, 326, 327, 328, 330, 331, 333, 334, 339

  liquidity and, 355

  LTCM debacle and, 120

  margins and, 355, 356

  regulation of, 105, 106

  risk and, 359

  shorting, 359

  volatility of, 120

  See also S&P 500 Index: futures on

  Galileo, 130, 131, 132, 161

  Galton, Francis, 70–71

  gambling, 34, 106, 359, 379–80. See also casinos, market

  “gaming” practice, 325

  Ganzach, Yoav, 41

  Garzarelli, Elaine, 66

  Geithner, Tim, 297, 397

  General Electric, 409

  General Motors, 412

  geocentric view, 130–31

  Georgetown University: Greenspan speech at, 386

  Germany, 415, 416

  Getco LLC, 330

  Gibbon, Edward, 86

  Gilbert, D. T., 43

  Glass-Steagall Act, 354, 384–85, 394

  global economy, 329, 387. See also fair trade; free trade

  Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS), S&P, 195n, 311

  Go-Go Bubble (1966–1969), 13–14, 19, 23, 24

  gold, 2, 272, 329, 359, 382, 414, 416

  Goldman Sachs, 19, 79, 174, 379–80, 388, 396, 397–400, 399n

  Google, 212

  GoTo stock, 188

  Graham, Benjamin, 46, 47, 48, 77, 252–53, 262, 266, 270, 283, 291, 293, 317, 358, 416

  Gramlich, Edward, 391–92

  Granger, Clive, 89

  Great Depression

  bubbles and, 16, 22

  credit-rating agencies and, 394

  deflation during, 415

  economy of 2008–2009 compared with, 62–63

  Federal Reserve actions during, 393

  Guthrie’s songs about, 167

  long-term return and, 369

  oil impact on economy during, 62–63

  reflection about, 416–17

  safe havens during, 80

  unemployment during, 407

  World War II and, 216

  Great Recession, 8, 62, 158, 323, 382, 393, 413, 414

  “Greater Fool Theory,” 20–21

  greed, 4, 347, 348, 381, 382, 386

  Greenspan, Alan, 18, 25, 68, 116, 124–25, 382–87, 390–93, 391n, 396, 403

  Gross, Bill, 55, 180

  group therapy, 13–14

  growth stocks, 218, 262, 264, 307, 308

  growth strategies: contrarian strategies and, 264, 266n

  Grubman, Jack, 187–89, 203n

  GSAMP 2007–FMI, 399

  gut feelings, 33

  Guthrie, Woody, 167

  Haldane, Andrew, 332

  Hamilton, Alexander, 404, 408

  Hartford Insurance, 311

  Harvard Business School: candidate interviews at, 172

  Haugen, Robert, 134

  hedge funds

  as beneficiaries of crashes, 326

  commodities trading and, 106

  Crash of 2007–2008 and, 3n, 124, 124n, 125, 213

  credit-rating agencies and, 396

  HFT and, 330
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  leverage and, 356

  liquidity and, 354, 356

  LTCM debacle and, 116–23

  mortgages and, 389n

  portfolio insurance and, 108

  regulation of derivatives and, 385

  risk and, 357, 358

  height study, 71, 73

  Heins, James, 134

  Hemline Indicator, 139

  heuristics (mental shortcuts)

  decision-making and, 53, 79–81

  impact of, 6

  information overload and, 75–76

  limitations of, 53

  See also specific heuristic

  high-frequency trading (HFT)

  August 2011 crash and, 329–34

  diversification and, 339, 340

  in Europe, 332

  flash crashes and, 324–27, 331, 332–33, 335

  futures and, 325, 325n, 326, 327, 328, 330, 331, 333, 334

  increase in, 332

  liquidity and, 326, 327, 328

  as manipulating the market, 331–33, 334, 335

  panics and, 332–34, 335, 336

  problems with, 324–28

  profits from, 330

  protective measures from, 328, 334–42

  regulation and, 327, 328, 330, 331–32, 334, 335–36

  risk and, 336

  volatility and, 328–34, 336–39

  high-yield strategy

  bear markets and, 287

  bonds and, 286–87

  contrarian strategies within industries and, 311–16, 319

  examples of contrarian stocks using, 300–302

  favored and unfavored stocks using, 250, 286–88

  as important contrarian strategy, 249

  IOH and, 275, 277–79, 281, 286–88, 303–4

  selection of stocks using, 291, 321

  selling strategies and, 347

  and success of contrarian strategies, 258–59, 262–63, 264–66

  Hills, Fred, 16

  hindsight biases, 78–79

  Holocaust, The, 33

  Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act (1994), 392

  Hoover, Herbert, 15

  “hot” analysts, 65–67

  “hot” stocks/funds, 6, 64–65

  housing

  boom in early 2000s of, 387

  global financial system and, 387

  price of, 388

  risk and, 373

  See also Housing Bubble (2007–2008); mortgages; subprime mortgages

  Housing Bubble (2007–2008)

  beginning of, 387

  characteristics of bubbles and, 19

  contrarian strategies and, 277–79

  defaults and, 124n

  EMH and, 123–27, 132, 135

  forecasting about, 174, 213

  foreclosures and, 125

  Greenspan and, 386

  hindsight bias and, 78

  information about, 174

  interest rates and, 124n

  leverage and, 124, 125, 126, 127

  liquidity and, 124, 125, 126, 127, 135

  margin and, 125

  mortgage-backed securities and, 125–26, 127

  mortgage bonds and, 125, 126

  risk and, 124, 124n, 127

  volatility and, 123, 124, 127, 132

  See also mortgages; subprime mortgages

  Hsee, Christopher, 34

  Hudson Mezzanine, 398, 399

  Huxley, Thomas, 351

  I/B/E/S earnings-forecasting service, 178, 190

  Ibbotson, Roger, 72

  IBM, 24

  iceberging, 325

  Ikenberry, David, 148

  Ilieva, Vladimira, 58, 219, 311

  illegal aliens, 406

  “illusion of validity,” 207

  illusory correlation, 175–76, 177

  index arbitrage (program trading), 107–8, 110, 111–12, 113–14, 276, 334

  index funds, 99, 114, 211, 289, 289n, 317, 339–42, 346, 416. See also specific fund

  India, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409, 411

  Indonesia, 405, 409

  industrial production: government statistics about, 67

  industries

  bear markets and, 319

  buying cheapest stocks in, 311–18

  contrarian strategies and, 310–16

  favored stocks in, 311–16

  forecasting about, 195–97, 199, 274

  HFT and sector funds by, 340

  IOH and, 273, 274

  unfavored stocks in, 311–16

  inflation

  contrarian strategies and, 416

  foreign investing and, 343–44

  free trade and, 407

  in future, 8–9, 404, 413–16

  global, 415

  interest rates and, 414, 415

  money supply and, 414

  risk and, 359–60, 361, 362–64, 367, 368, 371, 372, 373

  safe havens during, 2

  U.S. budget deficit and, 413–14

  information

  accuracy and, 172, 207

  availability of, 145, 185

  bubbles and, 154

  cognitive bias and, 175

  cognitive heuristics and, 171

  confidence in, 172–77

  and earnings reports, 149, 151–52

  EMH and, 95–96, 97, 141, 143, 145–52, 154–55, 155n

  forecasting and, 168–77, 180–84, 199–200, 201, 207, 214

  and human mind compared with computer logic, 168–69, 170

  illusory correlation and, 175–76, 177

  inside, 97, 207–9, 211, 212, 213, 214

  instantaneous reaction to, 95–96

  interpretation of, 154–55

  panics and, 154

  price and, 145–49, 150, 154

  processing/filtering of, 6, 75, 168–70, 171–77, 180, 184, 302

  Psychological Guidelines about processing, 174–75, 184

  rationality and, 171

  reactions to, 141, 143, 145–52

  return and, 145–46, 149

  too much, 74–76, 171–75, 184, 207

  uncertainty and, 171–72, 175

  volatility and, 152

  See also decision-making, financial; forecasting

  initial public offerings (IPOs)

  Affect and, 34, 47

  availability heuristic and, 55–59

  contrarian strategies and, 266–67

  in Dot-Com Bubble, 55–56

  EMH and, 128, 144, 150

  foreign investing and, 346

  insensitivity to probability and, 34

  IOH and, 274

  pressures on security analysts and, 188

  price of, 218, 346

  quality of, 58

  of start-ups, 57

  valuation of, 56

  insensitivity to probability, 33, 34–39, 46–47

  inside forecasting, 97, 207–9, 211, 212, 213, 214

  Institutional Investor magazine

  “All-Star” analysts of, 187, 189, 204, 206

  decline in bond market story in, 80

  institutional investors, 108–10, 114, 192, 253, 266, 327, 331, 389, 389n, 400

  Intel, 193

  intellectual property, protection of, 409–10, 411

  The Intelligent Investor (Graham), 252

  interest rates

  on bonds, 80, 286

  Housing Bubble (2008) and, 124n

  inflation and, 414, 415

  safety and, 80

  and severity of contemporary crashes, 25

  International Court of Justice (The Hague), 33, 410

  Internet Bubble (1996–2000). See Dot-Com Bubble/Crash

  intrinsic value theory, 199

  intuition, 52, 53, 76, 207. See also experiential system

  investment banks/bankers

  bailouts of, 126–27, 381–82

  complexity of products offered by, 401

  Crash of 2007–2008 and, 3n, 381, 382

  credit-rating agencies and, 394, 395, 396

  distrust of, 2–3

  ethics
of, 400, 401

  Glass-Steagall Act and, 385

  and heuristical errors, 59

  Housing Bubble (2007–8) and, 124, 125, 126–27, 213

  leverage and, 356

  liquidity and, 356

  LTCM debacle and, 122–23

  market casinos and, 380

  mortgages and, 388, 395

  pressures on security analysts and, 188, 189

  regulation of, 394

  risk and, 356, 357

  transformed into banks, 400

  Investment Research, 190

  Investor Overreaction Hypothesis (IOH)

  Affect and, 273

  anomalies and, 271

  behavior finance and, 273, 277

  bonds and, 271, 272

  bubbles/manias and, 269

  cognitive heuristics and, 273

  confirmation of, 277

  contrarian strategies and, 250, 272, 275, 277–88, 302–9

  Crash of 1987 and, 276

  critical implications of, 276–77

  definition of, 271–72

  EMH and, 275–77

  event triggers and, 274

  favored stocks and, 8, 271, 272, 273–75, 276, 279–82, 283–86

  forecasting and, 272, 274

  goals of, 276

  industries and, 273, 274

  introduction of, 271

  as largest source of investor error, 321

  leverage and, 276

  liquidity and, 276

  neuroeconomics and, 271, 273

  optimism and, 272, 274

  overview of, 269–75

  panics and, 269, 276

  predictions of, 271–72, 273–75

  price and, 269–70, 272, 274, 275, 276

  probabilities of success using, 302–6

  Psychological Guidelines about, 284, 285

  psychology and, 271, 272, 273, 275–76

  rationality and, 276–77

  reevaluations and, 274

  regression to the mean and, 272, 273, 274

  reinforcing events and, 274

  return and, 272, 275

  risk and, 275, 276, 284–85

  support for, 275–76

  surprises and, 272, 273, 274

  uncertainty and, 275

  unfavored stocks and, 8, 271, 272, 273–75, 276, 279–86

  valuation and, 272, 273, 274, 275

  volatility and, 275

  See also specific strategy

  investors

  aggressive, 284

  as best educated in history, 25

  conservative, 284

  goals/objectives of, 284, 366, 367

  information overload and, 75

  psychology of overreaction of, 25

  rationality of, 25, 26, 81

  and severity of contemporary crashes, 25

  study of expectations of mutual fund, 45

  See also Investor Overreaction Hypothesis; type of investor

  Investors Alliance, 320

  “invisible hand,” 402, 403, 405

  IOH. See Investor Overreaction Hypothesis

  IPO Bubble (1961–62), 23

  iShares, 342, 342n

  iShares Russell 1000 Index Fund, 342

  Israeli Air Force: criticism and praise in, 71–72

  Jain, Prem, 148

 

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