When CEO and analyst share a first name, earnings estimates are sharper
We won’t call it debunking, but not all investing tips hold up
A tool in the debate over shareholder primacy and wealth disparities
Investors may underreact when information arrives in small, continuous bits
Less sophisticated investors reveal their sentiment in certain trades, and a 20-year study measures it company by company
Do investors misprice assets, revise their risk appetite or make some other misjudgment?
Including intangible assets in book value vastly improves the strategy’s returns
Consumers, on the other hand, gained in good times and bad
Where big investors gather, corporate wealth is reallocated away from workers
Active investors take up some — but not all — of the slack created by index funds
The simplest explanation — “I can’t believe you know something I don’t” — may trump all the rest
Research measures the impact of global economic factors on returns
An analysis of warrant trading reveals individuals’ poor grasp of complex securities
Managing earnings at the cost of privacy
Dropping facts into a polarized investor pool reduces the impact of ideology and leads to broader ownership
Stronger financial reporting standards seem to mean more for growth of countries’ credit markets than their stock markets