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Bond Anomalies Have Been Around Since Napoleon
Smart beta works for fixed-income as well as stocks, a new paper based on more than two centuries of data argues.
He didn’t have momentum.
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Let’s assume that you have to invest in bonds. There are obvious reasons why you might not want to do this at present, with historically low yields, but many investors have no choice but to make large allocations to fixed-income. How best to do it? And how to make some sensible decision between bonds without incurring too many costs?