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Alex Edmans

Professor of Finance, London Business School

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Investment Strategies

29th October 2019

Capital Markets in China

China will soon become the largest economy in the world, but many Westerners (myself included) know very little about it. I’ve thus tried to

Category iconInvestment Strategies,  The World Economy

29th October 2019

How Macroeconomic Conditions Affect Stock Prices

John Cochrane of Stanford has written an excellent review of recent advances and future research directions in macro-finance. Macro finance studies

Category iconInvestment Strategies,  The World Economy

8th September 2016

Translating the New USS Pension Rules Into Plain English

Andy Haldane, the Chief Economist of the Bank of England, said that pensions are so complex that even someone "moderately financially literate" like

Category iconInvestment Strategies

20th March 2016

Size Matters, If You Control Your Junk

The first stock market trading strategy ever discovered was the size anomaly. Banz (1981) found that small stocks outperform large stocks, even after

Category iconInvestment Strategies

6th February 2016

Higher Stock Returns When CEOs Own More Shares

Executive compensation is a controversial topic. US CEOs earn 373 times the average worker, and so it takes them less than a day to earn the same as

Category iconExecutive Pay,  Investment Strategies

3rd May 2015

Predicting Mutual Fund Performance Using (Legal) Inside Information

How does an investor choose which mutual fund to invest in? She’ll want a measure of the fund manager’s skill, and the most natural measure is his

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26th June 2014

The Effect of the 2014 World Cup on Stock Markets

(Update 15 July) The 2014 World Cup is now over. After Argentina's loss in the final, its market was up 0.2%, underperforming the world index which

Category iconInvestment Strategies

7th June 2014

Underperformance of Companies Holding Meetings in Remote Locations

If a company has bad news that it wishes to hide, where will it hold its shareholder meeting? As far away as possible! That’s the hypothesis of an

Category iconInvestment Strategies

1st June 2014

Profiting from momentum strategies – Part 2

The previous post concerned momentum - a strategy of buying past winners and selling past losers. It discussed how this strategy does well on average,

Category iconInvestment Strategies

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