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We assess the properties of currency value strategies based on real exchange rates in a cross-sectional portfolio … setting. We find that real exchange rates predict currency excess returns, but in a way that is inconsistent with the notion … of currency value because a high valuation level forecasts a relative appreciation of the foreign currency going forward …
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We assess the properties of currency value strategies based on real exchange rates in a cross-sectional portfolio … setting. We find that real exchange rates predict currency excess returns, but in a way that is inconsistent with the notion … of currency value because a high valuation level forecasts a relative appreciation of the foreign currency going forward …
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This paper documents the tendency of mutual fund managers to follow analyst recommendation revisions when they trade stocks, and the impact of analyst revisioninduced mutual fund "herds" on stock prices. We find that mutual fund herds follow consensus revisions in analyst recommendations,...
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This paper implements strategies that use macroeconomic variables to select European equity mutual funds, including Pan-European, country, and sector funds. We find that several macro-variables are useful in locating funds with future outperformance, and that countryspecific mutual funds provide...
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We develop a stock return-predictive measure based on an efficient aggregation of the portfolio holdings of all actively managed U.S. domestic equity mutual funds, and use this model to study the source of fund managers' stock-selection abilities. This "generalized-inverse alpha" (GIA) approach...
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