Bad News is Good News, Except When…
June 14, 2005 - Economic Indicators
…good (bad) macroeconomic news is bad (good) for broad stock indices during expansions and good (bad) during recessions.
June 14, 2005 - Economic Indicators
…good (bad) macroeconomic news is bad (good) for broad stock indices during expansions and good (bad) during recessions.
June 1, 2005 - Individual Investing
…informed traders prefer price certainty over execution certainty unless the value of their private information is about to expire.
May 31, 2005 - Animal Spirits, Fundamental Valuation
…the stock market shows significant predictability (rather than perfect efficiency) in its reactions to news.
May 26, 2005 - Big Ideas
…principles of evolutionary biology such as competition, mutation, reproduction, and natural selection drives the evolution of financial markets.
May 25, 2005 - Equity Premium
…expect single-digit long-term returns from stocks.
May 19, 2005 - Sentiment Indicators
…investor sentiment tends to “predict” the past.
May 16, 2005 - Short Selling
…very recent data suggests that short sellers may have lost their ability to predict bad news and stock price declines.
May 11, 2005 - Buybacks-Secondaries, Mutual/Hedge Funds
…mutual funds may function mostly as passive vehicles through which active individual investors (reallocators) voluntarily transfer wealth to public corporations. By doing the opposite of these individuals, one can construct a portfolio with high returns. By ceasing reallocations, mutual fund investors in aggregate could boost their Sharpe ratio by 9%.
May 8, 2005 - Momentum Investing, Mutual/Hedge Funds
…front-running the predictable effects of unusual mutual fund inflows and outflows on stocks held in common offers significant excess returns.
May 6, 2005 - Animal Spirits, Investing Expertise, Sentiment Indicators
…situations involving herded traders and/or a small number of shareholders are good candidates for producing mispriced stocks.