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Efficiently Inefficient #8 : The promised backtesting results.
By Growing your tree of prosperity  •  September 10, 2017
As promised, I tried accessing a Bloomberg terminal to backtest some of the ideas from TUB investing. Here are my findings : a) Dividends per unit P/B ratio was a strong screen. Dividends generally do well in backtests. Putting up a screen incorporating the cheapness of a stock makes it even better. There is some research done this year in the Financial Analysts Journals which back-up my findings. In fact, using Dividends divided by P/B ratio and setting it above a threshold value to target around 20 stocks yielded a return about 13.6% with a semi-variance of 13.51%. Returns were enhanced even further when I used 5 year average free cash flow yields. TUB credited Teh Hooi Ling for this idea. This is definitely a workable investing idea. b) ROA per unit P/B outperformed the STI ETF but the performance was unremarkable. I did not fully adapt TUB's ......
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I have recently completed my Juris Doctor and I am waiting to be called by the Singapore Bar. For the past 15 years I was an IT manager and I have worked in multinationals, financial exchanges, trade unions and even a government agency. I started my career as an AS/400 administrator and moved on to manage IT projects and operations
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