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Abnormal Return

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Abnormal Return
When the return on an asset or security is in excess of the expected rate of return.

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Earning 30% in a mutual fund that is supposed to average 10% would be an abnormal return. Much like winning the lottery, this is something we want to happen.


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We find that while some positive abnormal return is observed, the overall result of the MSCI USA Index rebalancing is consistent with the price pressure hypothesis in that the cumulative average abnormal return over a 56-day period is not significantly different from zero.
This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they had built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract an abnormal return from financial markets.
The results show that a portfolio that buys bonds from firms with strong shareholder control and high takeover vulnerability and shorts bonds from firms with neither high shareholder control nor takeover vulnerability generates an abnormal return of up to 1.
 
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