Thanks ph1l! So, would that chart not indicate that its a good time to get back into low beta stocks for when they recover their mojo?
You are the man ph1l, thanks so much! Need to read completely, but based just on what you quoted, seems if you could come up with an easy way to measure low-risk versus high-risk stock performance, on a beta basis, when one went way up versus the other you could buy the other, and vice versa, for excess profits. Just a little alpha for ya it seems!!!
Yeah, I remember this too, but I can't find it easily in my text book. As I recall, they tried grouping portfolios into cohorts of beta, and compared the results of each portfolio at the end. I don't remember low beta stocks doing better, but the high beta stocks definitely did worse.