(책 요약) Quantitative Finance with Python (Chapter 3 - Theoretical Underpinnings of Quant Modeling)

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  • Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH): investors should not be able to consistently outperform on a risk-adjusted basis.
    • EMH 가 틀렸음을 보이는 증거들
      • Traders relying on inside information tend to earn excess profits
      • January Effect where excess returns tend to occur consistently in January relative to other months
  • Diversification is often said to be the only free lunch in financial markets.
    • Historically, stocks and bonds tend to exhibit negative correlation. This causes the volatility of portfolios involving both treasuries and equities to decrease.