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...increased interest owes in part (maybe mostly) to the fact that quants have done quite well of late. Casey, Quirk & Associates, an investment-management consultancy, took a look at institutional pools of money buying the stocks of large U.S. companies and found that those run by quants have consistently beat those run by nonquants since the beginning of 2003--by up to 2 percentage points a year...
...next, so their goal is simply to beat a benchmark index (say, the S&P 500 or the Russell 1000) by a few percentage points a year. "We're about hitting lots of singles," says Ronald Kahn, who runs advanced equity strategies at Barclays Global Investors. The Casey, Quirk survey found that quants take about half as much risk as nonquants. Over time, that habit of not losing as much money in down years adds...
...hypothesis-testing an idea before it's added to the computer model, relies on historical data, and growth companies tend to work because of what has yet to happen. The fabulous returns of the past few years are "a rare occurrence," says Daniel Celeghin, an associate director at Casey, Quirk. "I wouldn't bet on it happening again anytime soon...
...tempting to think of clones as perfect carbon copies of the original--down to every hair and quirk of temperament. It turns out, though, that there are various degrees of genetic replication. That may come as a rude shock to people who have paid thousands of dollars to clone a pet cat only to discover that their new kitten looks and behaves nothing like their beloved pet--with a different-color coat of fur, perhaps, or a completely different attitude toward its human hosts...
...respite will be brief. Between conference and non-conference dates, the Crimson will be home just five times all season, encompassing only seven games. Only two Ivy teams, Princeton and Penn, will come to Harvard this season. The league schedule is the result of an Ivy scheduling quirk that has teams play five road dates once every four years. Although it is too late to help Harvard and Cornell, the other Ivy team playing five league away games this season, the Ivy scheduling system will change after this campaign. The new system calls for two divisions, like the current baseball...