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  • The low-beta ABX. HE.BBB investment-grade mortgage bond index, for example, sank into a black hole.

    Debunking Beta David Dreman 2010

  • The PowerShares S&P 500 Low Volatility ETF, for example, is weighted toward large-cap value stocks, according to Morningstar, but its low-beta characteristics helped boost performance during recent downswings.

    Here's What's Really Driving Your Returns Joe Light 2011

  • A high-yield, low-beta strategy would steer you toward consumer staples like General Mills Inc., which pays a dividend yield of 3.3% and has a three-year beta of just 0.2.

    It's Payback Time! Ben Levisohn 2011

  • It is a low-beta stock and it does have a good dividend.

    Stocks For Recovery Skeptics 2010

  • Some people (think of government workers) choose "low-beta" assets, and so their economic circumstances change relatively little over the cycle, while others (think of people who buy stock index funds on margin) choose "high-beta" assets and get tossed around in whatever economic storms that blow in.

    An Alternative to Hydraulic Macro, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • High betas are no-nos while the money manager who delivers satisfactory returns with a low-beta portfolio is lionized.20

    Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Next Generation David Dreman 1998

  • High betas are no-nos while the money manager who delivers satisfactory returns with a low-beta portfolio is lionized.20

    Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Next Generation David Dreman 1998

  • Genuine Parts' Q1 Suggests Reasons for Optimism in 2011 as a low-beta, nice yielding dividend stock that is likely to do well as the economy continues to recover.

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  • Genuine Parts' Q1 Suggests Reasons for Optimism in 2011 as a low-beta, nice yielding dividend stock that is likely to do well as the economy continues to recover.

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  • It is a low-beta stock .55, has a good balance sheet and a strong asset base.

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