The predictability of security prices and the ability to develop profitable trading strategies is of great interest in the financial world. This paper examines momentum profits over the period January 1980 to December 2010 in the UK stock market, and attempts to explain whether such profits can...

The paper examines the relative importance of ten anomaly-based trading strategies. We employ Mean Variance spanning methodologies in a classical unconditional setting and a novel conditional setting. Fixed-weight optimal portfolios stemming from the unconditional methodology indicate that all...

The Momentum effect is a capital market puzzle. International evidence has found anomalies that market efficiency-based explanations have been so far unable to explain. If it is pervasive, the Momentum effect should be present in the Chilean market as well. From the perspective of the existing...

We build a new measure of investor sentiment only based on changes in diversi?cation levels of individual investors? portfolios. The dynamics of the number of different stocks in portfolios is modelized as a Markov chain. We measure investor sentiment as the area above the cumulative...

(VF)En Finance, la mesure du sentiment des investisseurs reste largement débattue. Dans cet article, nous utilisons la mesure du sentiment GTNS développée par Beer et al. (2013). Cette dernière s’appuie sur des résultats de recherche issus de la psychologie et de la linguistique....

This study tests if the financial markets price the investor’s sentiment risk. We construct portfolios based upon the stock returns’ exposure to sentiment. Our results show that the portfolio returns are positively correlated with the exposure of stocks to sentiment. The strategy that...

The paper aims to examine implied volatility as the investor fear gauge or/and forward-looking expectation of future stock market volatility within emerging markets setting-India VIX. The earliest results evidenced that VIX is the gauge of investor fear, where in the expected stock market...

We investigate a proxy for monthly shifts between bond funds and equity funds in the USA: aggregate net exchanges of equity funds. This measure (which is negatively related to changes in VIX) is positively contemporaneously correlated with aggregate stock market excess returns: One standard...

We examine the asymmetry in the predictive power of investor sentiment in the cross-section of stock returns across economic expansion and recession states. We test the implication of behavioral theories and evidence that the return predictability of sentiment should be most pronounced in an...

Economists have long recognized the importance of information veracity in valuing risky securities. Market participants concerned about the credibility of information measures may require additional compensation to entice them to hold stocks with less transparent information. These same...