Following Cooper et al. 2004 we test whether market states are relevant for predicting UK momentum profits. However, rather than simply categorizing up/down markets based on actual prices as Cooper et al. 2004, we suggest investors may view expectations and/or sentiment as important. Contrary to...

This paper examines whether sell-side security analysts follow momentum or create momentum by themselves for recommending stocks. We employ an indirect method of testing the role of analysts by assigning projected recommendation scores for the neglected stocks to mitigate the so-called...

This paper shed light to the existence of momentum and reversal patterns in the 18 industry indexes of DJ Euro Stoxx. The analysis is focus on European market and test a presence structural break in year 2000 (financial services and markets act). We made an analysis of five portfolios over eight...

The efficient-market hypothesis (EMH) is one of the most important economic and financial hypotheses that have been tested over the past century. Due to many abnormal phenomena and conflicting evidence, otherwise known as anomalies against EMH, some academics have questioned whether EMH is...

The majority of active Asian equity strategies claim to derive their value addition by focussing their skill on security selection. We investigate if empirically this is the most appropriate area for an active Asian manager to focus on, in comparison to focussing on asset allocation as the...

This paper examines the momentum strategy in Australia under the debate on whether momentum strategy is profitable in Australia. It studies both the price and alpha momentum strategy performance under several lookback periods, and applies short position adjustment and volatility scaling. I...

The previous literature on momentum investments has only considered the so called unconstrained momentum return. This paper will investigate budget constrained momentum returns by using two different datasets. The conclusion is that unconstrained momentum returns systematically overestimate the...

I characterize the global solution to the portfolio problem of two heterogeneous investors with general preferences, in a two-tree, two-good environment. Investors have recursive preferences and a bias in consumption towards a preferred good. The framework highlights the role of the allocation...

This paper investigates how institutional investors matter for asset pricing by using daily institutional trading data and a natural experiment, the split–share structure reform in China. This reform required all listed companies to convert their non-tradable shares to tradable shares after...

This paper uses unique data on the shareholdings of both institutional and individual investors to directly investigate whether institutional investors have better stock selection ability than individual investors in China. Controlling for other factors, we find that institutional investors...