Eugene Fama famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Iâ€™d compare stock pickers to astrologers but I donâ€™t want to bad mouth astrologers.
-- Eugene Fama

#Mouths #Want #Compare
After taking risk into account, do more managers than youâ€™d see by chance outperform with persistence? Virtually every economist who studied this question answers with a resounding 'no.'
-- Eugene Fama

#Persistence #Risk #Answers
In an efficient market at any point in time the actual price of a security will be a good estimate of its intrinsic value.
-- Eugene Fama

#Intrinsic Value #Security #Values
I don't even know what that means. People who get credit have to get it from somewhere. Does a credit bubble mean that people save too much during that period? I don't know what a credit bubble means. I don't even know what a bubble means. These words have become popular. I don't think they have any meaning.
-- Eugene Fama

#Mean #Thinking #People
An investor doesnâ€™t have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha.
-- Eugene Fama

#Prayer #Alphas #Investors
I’d compare stock pickers to astrologers but I don’t want to bad mouth astrologers.
-- Eugene Fama

#Astrology #Bad Advice #Investing
I take the market-efficiency hypothesis to be the simple statement that security prices fully reflect all available information.
-- Eugene Fama

#Simple #Market Efficiency #Investing
Markets are efficient, but there are different dimensions of risk and those lead to different dimensions of expected returns. That's what people should be concerned with in their investment decisions and not with whether they can pick stocks, pick winners and losers among the various managers delivering basically the same product.
-- Eugene Fama

#People #Decision #Risk
I can't figure out why anyone invests in active management, so asking me about hedge funds is just an extreme version of the same question. Since I think everything is appropriately priced, my advice would be to avoid high fees. So you can forget about hedge funds.
-- Eugene Fama

#Thinking #Advice #Would Be
Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers.
-- Eugene Fama

#Zero #Winning #Games
The efficient market theory is one of the better models in the sense that it can be taken as true for every purpose I can think of. For investment purposes, there are very few investors that shouldn't behave as if markets are totally efficient.
-- Eugene Fama

#Taken #Thinking #Purpose
An investor doesn’t have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha.
-- Eugene Fama

#Prayer #Alphas #Managers
People would be a lot more skeptical if they understood that there is an incredible amount of chance in the results that you observe for active managers. So the distribution of outcomes is enormously wide - but that's exactly what you'd expect by chance with lots of active managers who hold imperfectly diversified portfolios. The really good portfolios contain a lot of really lucky picks, and the really bad portfolios contain a lot of really unlucky picks as well as some really bad ones.
-- Eugene Fama

#People #Would Be #Lucky
The distribution of the market is fat-tailed relative to the normal distribution... For passive investors, none of this matters, beyond being aware that outlier returns are more common than would be expected if return distributions were normal.
-- Eugene Fama

#Would Be #Investing #Matter
I don't think the Federal Reserve has any role in how high rates are right now. I don't understand why everyone is paying attention to this tapering. The Fed is using one kind of bond to buy another kind of bond. What's the big deal, and why is anyone taking the Fed seriously?
-- Eugene Fama

#Thinking #Attention #Investing

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