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In Defense of Style Boxes
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  • Author: John Reckenthaler
  • Publication: Investment Advisor
  • Publication Date: June 2006
  • Intro: In a series of three articles published in Investment Advisor (September ’05, January ’06, February ’06), Craig Callahan and C. Thomas Howard levy several criticisms of the so-called investment style box. According to the authors, use of the style-box concept hurts investment performance, without yielding appreciable benefits to advisors. Thus, state the authors, style boxes are “unnecessary.”