{"id":12632,"date":"2015-11-30T01:45:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T06:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=12632"},"modified":"2015-11-30T01:45:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T06:45:39","slug":"the-trouble-with-chasing-hot-strategies-josh-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/30\/the-trouble-with-chasing-hot-strategies-josh-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trouble With Chasing Hot Strategies | Josh Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This should be blindingly obvious, but amazing how often it is ignored. Great post from Josh Brown at <a href=\"http:\/\/thereformedbroker.com\/2015\/11\/27\/the-trouble-with-chasing-hot-strategies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reformed Broker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How do most investors (and many advisors) select funds or strategies to allocate to? They look at what\u2019s been working, learn the story and get long&#8230;&#8230;.<br \/>\nAnd then mean reversion shows up \u2013 outperforming managers subsequently underperform, hot themes become over-loved, winning strategies become too crowded to offer excess returns. \u201cNo problem,\u201d says the advisor, I\u2019ve got six new ideas to replace the six ideas that are no longer working!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s sad to say, but this is exactly how it works. I\u2019ve been watching this for almost 20 years&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Research Affiliates has an interesting pair of charts demonstrating this phenomenon in a new note from Rob Arnott, Jason Hsu and Co. They illustrate that increasing fund flows are a decent predictor of subsequent underperformance and that performance-chasing is destructive to returns across all types of investment products:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Research Affiliates\" title=\"Research Affiliates\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thereformedbroker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/factor-1.jpg?w=525\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This should be blindingly obvious, but amazing how often it is ignored. Great post from Josh Brown at Reformed Broker: How do most investors (and many advisors) select funds or strategies to allocate to? They look at what\u2019s been working, learn the story and get long&#8230;&#8230;. And then mean reversion shows up \u2013 outperforming managers &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/30\/the-trouble-with-chasing-hot-strategies-josh-brown\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Trouble With Chasing Hot Strategies | Josh Brown&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,50,16,57],"tags":[1714,1989],"class_list":["post-12632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-active-investing","category-financial-planning","category-investment-strategy-2","category-stock-markets","tag-hot-strategies","tag-josh-brown"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Trouble With Chasing Hot Strategies | Josh Brown - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Trouble With Chasing Hot Strategies | Josh Brown - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This should be blindingly obvious, but amazing how often it is ignored. 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