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• s  not varying together

• They found a free lunch of sorts in the strategy of spreading money among uncorrelated asset classes, and seem surprised that following their advice eventually made the free lunch .
• Part of the idea behind Citigroup was that by combining lots of lumpy but uncorrelated profit streams you'd get steady profits, but that hasn't worked out so well.
• But they've been steady returns, mostly uncorrelated with the overall stock market, during a tumultuous time for the market.

News & Articles

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• Buy These Uncorrelated ETFs in Rocky Markets
  Look to Merger Arbitrage ETFs for uncorrelated exposure in uncertain markets.
  June 17, 2013 - Zacks via Yahoo! Finance
• Buy These Uncorrelated ETFs in Rocky Markets - ETF News And Commentary
  With markets facing some severe weakness as of late, many investors have looked to uncorrelated plays as solid investments. Unfortunately, many of these typical investments-such as bonds, gold,
  June 17, 2013 - Nasdaq

Quotes

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• Noam Gottesman in New York Times
  We have known Man for many years and can be certain that our two businesses are highly complementary, both focused on delivering long-term performance but each with differing client bases and uncorrelated investment strategies,Mr. Gottesman...
• Marc Andreessen in Webware/Cnet (blog)
  I have no idea what's really going to happen,Andreessen said when Battelle asked him about the "nuclear" comment. "There's this huge irony for our industry......we got blamed for a lot of the last crash. We are the most remote uncorrelated...
• David Card in Inter Press Service (subscription)
  Based on data from the 2000 US census, Card concludes in a 2005 study that "relative wages of native dropouts are uncorrelated with the relative supply of less-educated workers", even when the latter has been swelled by Latin American...