Capturing the Value Premium by Avoiding Institutional Ownership
June 9, 2006 - Size Effect, Value Premium
…capturing the value premium means focusing on stocks with the lowest institutional ownership.
June 9, 2006 - Size Effect, Value Premium
…capturing the value premium means focusing on stocks with the lowest institutional ownership.
June 7, 2006 - Economic Indicators
…some industries (such as financial and retail positively, and petroleum and metals negatively) lead the overall stock market. However, the indications are not economically significant for traders.
May 30, 2006 - Buybacks-Secondaries
…firms sell (buy back) company financial assets when their stocks are overvalued (undervalued), and analysts misinterpret or underreact to these actions. Investors should focus on the actions of corporate executives and not the forecasts of analysts.
May 25, 2006 - Economic Indicators, Momentum Investing, Value Premium
…investors can enhance returns by combining value and momentum styles, leaning toward momentum when the yield curve is normal and value when the yield curve is inverted.
May 19, 2006 - Animal Spirits, Individual Investing
…investors/traders who check investment performance frequently should make mental adjustments for pain-avoidance bias.
May 16, 2006 - Fundamental Valuation
…investors should focus on return on investment as the driver of investment returns and earnings yield as the indicator of how large the returns should be.
May 9, 2006 - Sentiment Indicators
…investors/traders generally underreact to the sentiment expressed by executives in company annual reports.
May 5, 2006 - Individual Gurus
Our Guru Grades section ranks a group of 29 stock market experts according to our assessments of the accuracy of their stock market forecasts. Since Jack Schannep has been in the upper tier of the list since inception, we asked him to encapsulate his thinking on market timing as a guest entry for this blog…. Keep Reading
April 28, 2006 - Size Effect
…investors in large capitalization stocks are likely accepting a worldwide equity premium. Local (and identifiable) pockets of reward-for-risk involve small capitalization stocks.
April 25, 2006 - Volatility Effects
…both the long-term and short-term behaviors of the VIX appear to have some value as an indicator of future stock returns, especially for high-beta stocks.