I recently authored a Guest Blog Entry posted at the ValueWalk.com site. It is entitled The Stock-Return Predictor.

Juicy Excerpt #1: Could it be that the price that the market is trying to tell us is the true market price is the nominal market price as adjusted for the effect of overvaluation or undervaluation? The market generates the P/E10 figure as much as it does the nominal market price. Perhaps all the confusion over whether the market is efficient or not, and if not, why not, stems from a failure to appreciate that the market is reporting the true market price in two steps.

Juicy Excerpt #2: The suggestion here is that the only thing that has been keeping us from enjoying an efficient market is the insistence of the believers in the efficient market theory that market timing is not needed for the market to become efficient. Markets in which investors do not change their stock allocations in response to big valuation shifts cannot achieve efficiency because valuations affect long-term returns and it is irrational for investors to ignore this reality when setting their stock allocations. The market is not automatically efficient. But investors can make it efficient if they are willing to change their stock allocations in response to valuation shifts.