Economists have long recognized that investors care differently about downside losses versus upside gains. Agents who place greater weight on downside risk demand additional compensation for holding stocks with high sensitivities to downside market movements. This paper shows that the cross-section of stock returns reflects a premium for downside risk....
From the executive summary: 'The inherent upside of attaching a celebrity to a brand is that the brand literally has a face, name and personality that immediately projects an image of a living, breathing, credible person as opposed to a faceless corporate entity. The downside is that individuals are not...
The paper highlights that the inherent upside of attaching a celebrity to a brand is that the brand literally has a face, name and personality that immediately project an image of a living, breathing, credible person as opposed to a faceless corporate entity. The downside is that individuals are not...
Conventional explanations of the momentum effect use behavioral models with imperfect information and investor behavior and rely on the fact that arbitrage is limited, so that arbitrageurs cannot eliminate the apparent profitability of momentum strategies. In this paper, the authors show that momentum strategies have high exposures to the systematic...
This research investigates the persistence of investment risk across time horizon, a crucial issue in asset allocation decisions. Previous empirical results have focused mainly on US data and suffer from limited sample size in the analysis of long-horizon returns. Investigation of a long- term sample of thirty countries provides additional...
Stocks with greater downside risk, which is measured by higher correlations conditional on downside moves of the market, have higher returns. After controlling for the market beta, the size effect and the book-to-market effect, the average rate of return on stocks with the greatest downside risk exceeds the average rate...
It is very essential to protect a business during the economic degradation. This article mainly talks about how to bulletproof the business plan during a slumping economy. Investors are looking for a clear, solid business model that makes a profit or will make one soon. So it is needed...
Article talks about different approaches used to take decision on customer profitability measures. A large number of companies carry out some form of profitability measurement but much of them are wildly off target. Measuring customer profitability is straightforward process where one tracks customer revenue and product revenue, allocates the cost...
WASHINGTON AFP — The White House on Wednesday hailed "important and helpful" joint efforts by central banks to stem a global market meltdown after the US Federal Reserve lowered a key interest rate. "We respect the independence of the Federal Reserve in setting monetary policy. It is important...
WASHINGTON AFP — The Federal Reserve must consider whether its current interest rate policy "remains appropriate" in view of exceptional market turmoil, chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday amid swirling speculation about a need for rate cuts. Bernanke, speaking to business economists in Washington, provided a hint that the...
WHAT IS YOUR JOB? I work for Maxis, a videogame development company, and I do graphics programming. Basically, I write programs that make the worlds in our games look amazing. For example, we recently carne out with Spore. In this game, players get to select various body parts...
The Week Ahead The outlook will be key when the supermarket chain J Sainsbury posts its second-quarter update on Wednesday. Citigroup and Panmure Gordon analysts anticipate like-for-like sales growth of between 3.5 and 4 per cent, excluding fuel, while JP Morgan forecasts a 4.7 per cent...
Coresonic AB was formed as a result of a need to develop a new wireless baseband processor architecture that was programmable but did not suffer the usual downsides of increased power consumption and cost. It was founded in 2004 based on the outcome of a three-year research project...
FinAnalytica Inc., a leading provider of glassbox risk management and portfolio construction analytics, today announced amajor expansion of its CognityFoF platform to include a full downside riskbudgeting framework in a new release -- Version 2.10. As the only risk platform offering fat-tailed, skewed VaR and Expected TailLoss ETL risk measures,...
NEW YORK -- Sarah Palin is heading into her debate with Joe Biden, easily the most-anticipated vice presidential faceoff ever, weighed down by fresh evidence that voters are developing serious doubts about her readiness for the job. A new AP-Gfk poll released Wednesday found that just 25...
Revolvers still make a lot of sense for self-defense. High reliability, low dependence on ammo type or maintenance and more. Wheel guns don't go out of battery when jammed against an attacker's body at contact distance, they just go bang and tear hellacious wounds with bullet and muzzle blast combined....
It's the downside of dining, when your queasy stomach gives way to vomiting and diarrhea. Is it the flu, or something you ate? You begin to wonder if you're the latest victim in the high- profile food poisoning cases that have plagued the country in recent years:...
SceneExchange is rolling out in the Missouri,Illinois and Iowa markets in October, and members of the Missouri Allianceof Automotive Service Providers firmly believe it will help bring greatvalue to their member shops. SceneExchange is an online community that brings vehicle owners andcollision repair shops together in an insurer-sponsored marketplace. "One...
Gentex Corporation (NASDAQ: GNTX), the leadingsupplier of automatic-dimming rearview mirrors to the worldwide automotiveindustry, has announced that it has revised its prior estimate for top linegrowth for the third quarter ended September 30, 2008. In the Company's second quarter news release on July 22, 2008, the Companyhad estimated that its...
Byline: BRENDA HOLROYD WHAT is the agenda behind this obsession, and I mean obsession, to add fluoride to our drinking water? Protection is there already, as has been mentioned many times before regarding the care of children's teeth. Recently I contacted Yorkshire Water and...
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