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BFE 420 Lecture 7
BFE 420 Lecture 7
Ms P. Mawire
fundamental
technical
market anomalies and security attributes
The belief that the best time to buy (sell) a stock is when the
majority of other investors are the most bearish (bullish) about it.
Purchases stocks that have accelerating earnings and sells (or short
sells) stocks with disappointing earnings.
Weekend effect
Low book value – the stocks which are below average or have price to
book ratios also outperform the market.
Although tracking risk (also called active risk) will increase, the
enhanced indexer believes that the incremental returns more than
compensate for the small increase in risk.