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In 1994, Josef Lakonishok, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert Vishny published a landmark study investigating the performance of value stocks relative to glamour securities in the United States over a 26-year period. Their research concluded that value stocks tended to outperform glamour stocks by wide...
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We construct investor sentiment indices for six major stock markets and decompose them into one global and six local indices. In a validation test, we find that relative sentiment is correlated with the relative prices of dual-listed companies. Global sentiment is a contrarian predictor of...
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In this work, we study the strategies driving cross-border sovereign wealth fund (SWF) investments worldwide. In particular, we investigate how SWFs internationalize their activities, studying whether the use of investment vehicles as signal of passive investment approach to access foreign...
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This paper examined the effect of COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy. The study employed an analytical approach reviewing the most recent literature COVID-19 global Statistics, oil price, policy responses and stock market. It was discovered that COVID-19 has spread to well over 200...
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In previous versions of our Value vs. Glamour study we have explored the historical performance of stocks based on their fundamental characteristics and quantified a value premium. Results have shown that over the long term, unpopular “value” stocks, those that are associated with companies...
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Using point-in-time accounting data, we estimate monthly fair values of 25,000 stocks from 36 countries. A trading strategy based on deviations from fair value earns significant risk-adjusted returns (“alpha”) in most regions, especially the Asia Pacific, that are unrelated to known...
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We analyze the names of over 39,000 equity mutual funds sold in 77 countries between 1931 and 2016 in order to provide an aggregate perspective on the global evolution of mutual fund offerings. Despite the previously documented high degree of fund proliferation, we find that country-level fund...
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We introduce an international active fund management model in which competing managers have heterogeneous incentives (effort productivities, costs) for searching domestic/foreign investment opportunities. In equilibrium, the domestic/foreign incentives heterogeneity gives rise to a novel...
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Efficient financial globalization should reward high-skilled financial institutions and punish low-skilled institutions …. We show that the globalization of the mutual fund industry in the beginning of the century has exhibited the opposite … pattern: low-skilled companies can benefit from globalization by catering to the demand of unsophisticated investors for …
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We examine global integration in the market for asset management, as indicated by the correlation of mutual fund flows across domiciles. We observe no leading role for the US relative to flows in other domiciles. We do observe a strong global factor in MF flows, and global integration is linked...
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