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(Re)engineering Your Own Beliefs

In: Investment Beliefs

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  • Kees Koedijk

    (Tilburg University)

  • Alfred Slager

    (Tilburg University
    Stork Pension Fund)

Abstract

Having the right investment beliefs is crucial; so is putting them into practice. This chapter provides guidelines for trustees and investment managers for delivering the right results. The essential point throughout the book is that finance is a relatively young discipline in which data are limited, biased, or both; and in which the ratio of noise to signal is very high. It is very difficult to know anything with a degree of certainty when it comes to investment theory. Therefore we must believe certain things, be able to differentiate between what we actually know and believe, and shape strategies according to these beliefs (Denison 2008).

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  • Kees Koedijk & Alfred Slager, 2011. "(Re)engineering Your Own Beliefs," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Investment Beliefs, chapter 16, pages 151-163, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-30757-5_16
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230307575_16
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