Tadas Viskanta is the Founder and Editor
of Abnormal Returns.
This year we crowdsourced the questions from readers who won a copy
of the Abnormal Returns: Winning Strategies from the Frontlines of the Investment Blogosphere for their efforts.
Last night's episode
of Abnormal Returns on StockTwits TV featured a conversation with David Merkel of the Aleph Blog.
Tadas Viskanta is the founder and editor
of Abnormal Returns since its 2005 launch.
He is also the author
of Abnormal Returns: Winning Strategies from the Frontlines of the Investment Blogosphere.
April 17th: Check out this recent interview I did with Michael Martin as a part
of the Abnormal Returns book tour.
I should note that hardcover copies
of the Abnormal Returns book are on deep discount over at Amazon, so if you don't have a copy yet now is your chance.
-- Tadas Viskanta, Founder and Editor, Abnormal Returns and author
of Abnormal Returns: Winning Strategies from the Frontlines of the Investment Blogosphere
There was not a lot of turnover a the top of the list this month as Abnormal Returns readers take advantage of some special deals on Kindle versions of some popular books and deeply discounted hardcover copies
of the Abnormal Returns book.
During a sidebar with Tadas Viskanta, founder and editor
of Abnormal Returns, he offered his impression of the conference: «Grasping at straws...»
Apparently a lot
of Abnormal Returns readers want to become hedge fund managers because Ted Seides» So You Want to Start a Hedge Fund: Lessons for Managers and Allocators did well.
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Long - time readers
of Abnormal Returns are by now familiar with the work of Wesley Gray of Alpha Architect.
Abnormal Returns is run by Tadas Viskanta, a seasoned private investor and author
of Abnormal Returns: Winning Strategies from the Frontlines of the Investment Blogosphere.
Tadas Viskanta is the founder and editor
of Abnormal Returns since its 2005 launch.
Not exact matches
Stuff I'm Reading this Morning...
Abnormal Returns covers the concept
of Zombie ETFs... a new development for this industry.
Tadas over at
Abnormal Returns did a nice job summarizing some
of the current thinking from many different sources on the 60/40 portfolio.
Alpha can also refer to the
abnormal rate
of return on a security or portfolio in excess
of what would be predicted by an equilibrium model like CAPM.
Alpha is also often referred to as «excess
return» or «
abnormal rate
of return.»
Business Pundit places
Abnormal Returns among the «75 Best Business Blogs
of 2009» in the Investing category.
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Abnormal Returns among the «50 Best Business Blogs
of 2008» in the Financial News and Investing category.
Morgan Housel at the Collaborative Fund included
Abnormal Returns on this list
of What I Read (And Why).
In the May 2016 version
of his paper entitled «
Abnormal Stock Market
Returns Around Peaks in VIX: The Evidence
of Investor Overreaction?»
Individuals in the top 10 %
of past performers earn average
abnormal (adjusted for size and momentum effects) monthly
returns starting at 7.85 % after one month and falling gradually to 5.20 % after 36 months.
They employ three distinct methods to measure long - run
abnormal returns: (1) calendar - time three - factor (market, size, book - to - market ratio) portfolio alpha; (2) three - factor alpha in event time; and, (3)
returns in excess
of those for control stocks matched on size, book - to - market ratio and six - month past
return.
An investor selecting a portfolio according to the percentage
of contributions given to the winner in a presidential election would have earned significant
abnormal returns of up to 6.6 % per year during the first year after an election.
Using a differences - in - differences methodology, we find that politically active firms saw an increase in their stock's volatility along with negative long - term
abnormal stock
returns upon the release
of the NCR.
In the paper, Corporate campaign contributions and
abnormal stock
returns after presidential elections, forthcoming in Public Choice, we explore the stock market performance
of top corporate contributors after the elections that brought Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, respectively, to power.
Summary:
Abnormal Returns is a blog by Tadas Viskanta, a private investor with over 20 years
of investing experience.
Potential complications
of early
return to play include worsening symptoms,
abnormal bone development, or an avulsion injury.
If you're getting injections for
abnormal sweating, there is a good chance that the sweating will
return to its original state with a period
of three months.
If temperatures
return to more normal levels after two winters
of abnormal warmth, the average heating bill across the Buffalo Niagara region is expected to jump by 26.5 percent — or about $ 123 — from last year's unusually affordable cost, according to National Fuel Gas Co..
When the researchers treated mice with JQ1, many
of the
abnormal activity levels
of Brd4 target genes
returned to normal.
However, given that cumulative
abnormal returns increase with radicalness during an expansion but decrease with radicalness during a recession, he added, «Banks should time their launch
of radical financial innovations to coincide with periods
of expansion rather than recessions.»
The study results indicate that patients who have
abnormal levels
of breaks at common fragile sites (CFSs), sites within the chromosomes that are sensitive to DNA damage, are more likely to have their cancer to
return — treatment failure.
This may lead to sluggish transmission in brain serotonin systems, insensitivity
of the eyes to environmental light, and
abnormal circadian (daily) rhythms — a cycle that doesn't resolve until the body senses the
return of longer / lighter days.
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Remarks: Due to their conceptual scope — and if not explicitly stated otherwise — , all models / setups / strategies do not account for slippage, fees and transaction costs, do not account for
return on cash and / or interest on margin, do not use position sizing (e.g. Kelly, optimal f)-- they're always «all in «-- , do not use leverage (e.g. leveraged ETFs), do not utilize any kind
of abnormal market filter (e.g. during market phases with extremely elevated volatility), do not use intraday buy / sell stops (end -
of - day prices only), and models / setups / strategies are not «adaptive «(do not adjust to the ongoing changes in market conditions like bull and bear markets).
Tadas Viskanta, editor
of the excellent finanical blog
Abnormal Returns, asked a group
of financial bloggers the following question:
An investment strategy
of «long carbon - efficient firms and short carbon - inefficient firms» would earn
abnormal returns of 3.5 % -5.4 % per year.
We noted it in our book
Abnormal Returns: Winning Strategies from the Frontlines
of the Investment Blogosphere.
Beyond that, though, I don't think this blog would have gotten where it is today with the aid
of James Altucher at TheStreet.com,
Abnormal Returns, Charles Kirk at the Kirk Report, Barry Ritholtz at the Big Picture, StumbleUpon.com (surprising how much traffic has come from there, and all recent), Roger Nusbaum
of Random Roger's Big Picture, Bill Luby at VIX and More, Seeking Alpha (Aleph — Shalom), and Jeff Miller at A Dash
of Insight.
We find that the positive
returns at announcement are not reversed over time, as there is no evidence
of a negative
abnormal drift during the one - year period subsequent to the announcement.
In A Crisis In Quant Confidence *,
Abnormal Returns has a superb post on Scott Patterson's recounting in his book The Quants
of the reactions
of several quantitative fund managers to the massi...
-LSB-...] In Hedge Fund Activism, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance, authors Brav, Jiang, Thomas and Partnoy found that the «market reacts favorably to hedge fund activism, as the
abnormal return upon announcement
of potential activism is in the range
of [7 %] seven percent, with no
return reversal during the subsequent year.»
If you want to, you can buy the book here:
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There was an interesting post on Bloomberg regarding asset class correlations, and a lot
of blogs wrote about it, including
Abnormal Returns, which did a nice summary, and expanded the argument to...
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I religiously read
Abnormal Returns as the principal gateway to news, Bespoke Investment Group for top notch research and charts, Charles Kirk for both links and a trader perspective, and Calculated Risk for comprehensive coverage
of economic news.
The choice
of the money manager is between normal
returns on the strength
of fundamental financials on one hand and
abnormal temporary
returns relying on a highly irrational market.