A practical guide to measuring market timing and its impact on portfolio performance, with clear tests you can trust.
This book explains how forecasters’ predictions can be used to separate the value of market timing from stock picking, using observable forecasts or return data alone. It combines nonparametric ideas with parametric tests to give a complete view of forecasting skill in investment management.
- Learn how to frame timing ability as a measurable signal in up- and down-market conditions.
- See how to use regression to separate microforecasting and macroforecasting contributions to returns.
- Understand tests that work even when forecasts aren’t directly observed, including how to handle varying confidence over time.
- Explore extensions for multiple forecast regions and more complex timing strategies.
Ideal for readers of investment performance research, portfolio management, and anyone evaluating a market-timing capability in a practical, data-driven way.