I think I would agree with you that if you could really find the “right” factors to care about because they capture predictable correlated variance in a sensible way, then we should accept those parts as “explainable”. I just find that these FF betas are too unstable and arbitrary for my liking, which is a sentiment you seem to understand.
I focus so much on the risk-return paradox because it is such a simple and consistent anomaly. Maybe one day that won’t be true anymore, but I’m just more willing to accept that this phenomenon just exists as a quirk of the marketplace than that FF explains “part of it, and the rest looks like inefficiency”. FF could just as easily be too bad a way to explain correlated variance to use in any meaningful way.
Reasonable beliefs! I feel like we’re mostly at a point where our perspectives are mainly separated by mood, and I don’t know how to make forward progress from here without more data-crunching than I’m up for at this time.
I think I would agree with you that if you could really find the “right” factors to care about because they capture predictable correlated variance in a sensible way, then we should accept those parts as “explainable”. I just find that these FF betas are too unstable and arbitrary for my liking, which is a sentiment you seem to understand.
I focus so much on the risk-return paradox because it is such a simple and consistent anomaly. Maybe one day that won’t be true anymore, but I’m just more willing to accept that this phenomenon just exists as a quirk of the marketplace than that FF explains “part of it, and the rest looks like inefficiency”. FF could just as easily be too bad a way to explain correlated variance to use in any meaningful way.
Reasonable beliefs! I feel like we’re mostly at a point where our perspectives are mainly separated by mood, and I don’t know how to make forward progress from here without more data-crunching than I’m up for at this time.
Thanks for discussing!