They seem to agree with Greenblatt when they find that the higher alpha of the equal - weighted portfolio arises from the monthly rebalancing required to maintain equal weights, which is a «contrarian strategy that exploits reversal and
idiosyncratic volatility of the stock returns; thus, alpha depends only on the monthly rebalancing and not on the choice of initial weights.»
Not exact matches
«Our expectation is for pockets
of volatility on an
idiosyncratic basis around these events, rather than a wholesale sea change
of volatility,» said Ben Robins, portfolio specialist at T. Rowe Price.
After removing the effects
of time - varying
volatility,
idiosyncratic volatility innovations are still positively correlated.
In their May 2006 paper entitled «The Relation between Time - Series and Cross-Sectional Effects
of Idiosyncratic Variance on Stock Returns in G7 Countries», Hui Guo and Robert Savickas investigate why the realized idiosyncratic volatility (beta) of individual stocks correlates negatively with future returns — why there is a penalty instead of a reward for this a
Idiosyncratic Variance on Stock Returns in G7 Countries», Hui Guo and Robert Savickas investigate why the realized
idiosyncratic volatility (beta) of individual stocks correlates negatively with future returns — why there is a penalty instead of a reward for this a
idiosyncratic volatility (beta)
of individual stocks correlates negatively with future returns — why there is a penalty instead
of a reward for this apparent risk.
They identify
idiosyncratic volatility shocks as large deviations from the
volatility predicted out -
of - sample by a regression model that accounts for market, size and book - to - market effects.
Instead
of the «goldilocks» scenario
of low
volatility and rising global growth, markets are likely to get a lot more choppy and individual stock performance could become more
idiosyncratic.
MiFID II is expected to result in less sell - side research coverage
of companies, which potentially increases pricing inefficiencies and
idiosyncratic volatility, as information may not spread through the markets.
They examine three measures
of return comovement for each asset class: average pairwise correlation, average beta relative to the world market and average
idiosyncratic volatility.
She defines
idiosyncratic volatility as the standard deviation
of daily residuals from monthly regressions
of returns (in excess
of the risk - free rate) for each stock versus Fama - French model factors.
For me, the most important part
of the study is the finding that «The nonparametric monotonicity relation test indicates that the differences in the total return
of the equal - weighted portfolio and the value - and price - weighted portfolios is monotonically related to size, price, liquidity and
idiosyncratic volatility.»