Investments
11th Edition
ISBN: 9781259277177
Author: Zvi Bodie Professor, Alex Kane, Alan J. Marcus Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Which statement provides evidence which is not supported by
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EMH which is known as efficient market hypothesis stand to be the investment theory wherein price of a share represent the entire information, however consistent alpha generation stands to be impossible. Hypothetically, the risk adjusted excess returns cannot be produced by either fundamental or technical analysis .Stock generally trade at fair value, over the stock exchange in accordance with efficient market hypothesis which makes it difficult for investors to sell stock at inflated prices or to purchase stocks at undervalued prices.
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a. Nearly half of all professionally managed mutual funds are able to outperform the S&P 500 in a typical year.
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b. Money managers who outperform the market (on a risk-adjusted basis) in one year are likely to outperform the market in the following year.
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c. Stock prices tend to be predictably more volatile in January than in other months.
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d. Stock prices of companies that announce increased earnings in January tend to outperform the market in February.
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Suppose that, after conducting an analysis of past stock prices, you come up with the following observations. Which would appear to contradict the weak form of the efficient market hypothesis? Explain.a. The average rate of return is significantly greater than zero.b. The correlation between the return during a given week and the return during the following week is zero.c. One could have made superior returns by buying stock after a 10% rise in price and selling after a 10% fall.d. One could have made higher-than-average capital gains by holding stocks with low dividend yields.
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