The Effectiveness of Back Tests

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Get ready for asset valuation, fund selection, and portfolio modelling made easy.

And in today’s Dumb Question of the Week: Do backtests really work?

Tools discussed

Fund screening

• JustETF
• VettaFI
• Morningstar fund screener
• Morningstar ETF screener

Market Data

• FRED
• Koyfin
• FinViz
• Yahoo Finance
• Google Finance
• Dataroma

Valuation

• Yardeni
• Research Affiliates
• Barclays Indices
• Aswath Damodaran

Historic returns data

• Bogleheads SIMBA spreadsheet
• Robert Shiller’s data
• Fama/French data
• MSCI data

Portfolio backtests

• PortfolioCharts
• Portfolio Visualizer
• FI Calc

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