The power of aggregate discretionary accruals to predict future market returns is robust across
subperiods return / accrual measurement methods and business conditions.
Not exact matches
They test robustness of findings with data from selected international developed markets, different
return variable specifications, different
subperiods and impact of transaction costs.
The adjustment is an approximation using a simplified assumption that
returns are not serially correlated between
subperiods.
Using
return data and strategy descriptions spanning a total of 6,352 hedge funds over the period January 1970 through June 2009 and risk factor adjustment data for a January 1994 through March 2009
subperiod, he concludes that: Keep Reading
A measure of
return calculated by averaging the
return for each
subperiod in which a cash flow occurs into a
return for a reporting period.
The 1963 - 1990 relation between BE / ME and average
return is strong, and remarkably similar for the 1963 - 1976 and 1977 - 1990
subperiods.