Robert Shiller: Maybe Buffett’s past investing style can be captured in a trading algo

The Mirage Of The Financial Singularity by Robert Shiller, Project Syndicate H/T Young Money NEW HAVEN – In their new book The Incredible Shrinking Alpha, Larry E. Swedroe and Andrew L. Berkin describe an investment environment populated by increasingly sophisticated analysts who rely on big data, powerful computers, and scholarly research. With all this competition, “the hurdles to achieving alpha [returns above a risk-adjusted benchmark – and thus a measure of success in picking individual investments] are getting higher and higher.”   ………………………… Many believe that we are almost there. Even legendary investors like Warren Buffett, it is argued, are…