Portfolio Managers and Novices' Forecasts of Risk and Return: Are There Predictable Forecast Errors?

CUBS Faculty of Finance Working Paper No. 03

Cass Business School Research Paper

41 Pages Posted: 17 Oct 2001

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Yaz Gulnur Muradoglu

City University London - The Business School; Queen Mary University of London

Date Written: October 2001

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the individual behavior that underlies the overreaction hypothesis by conducting a controlled experiment. Two areas that were not captured by previous research on the validity of the overreaction hypothesis are investigated. First, actual portfolio managers are employed as forecasters. Second a real world assessment task is given in the form of predicting the prices of stocks traded on the exchange on a real time basis. The purpose is to explore return expectations and risk perceptions of portfolio managers as well as financially unsophisticated investors by using point and interval forecasts provided for different forecast horizons in bull and bear markets. Contributions stem from three sources. (1) The use of financially sophisticated subjects for the first time in an experimental framework testing the overreaction hypothesis makes possible to control for the effect of expertise. (2) The use of different forecast horizons controls for the effect of forecast period. (3) The use of real time forecasts of specific stocks traded at the stock exchange, for the first time in an experimental framework testing the overreaction hypothesis enables to control for ecological validity. Discussions will be given as to the portfolio managers' versus naive investors' interpolating asset prices from past trends and hedging behavior, due to their caution in projections of ranges for future prices.

Keywords: Stock price forecasts, overreaction, judgement, investor psychology

Suggested Citation

Muradoglu, Yaz Gulnur and Muradoglu, Yaz Gulnur, Portfolio Managers and Novices' Forecasts of Risk and Return: Are There Predictable Forecast Errors? (October 2001). CUBS Faculty of Finance Working Paper No. 03, Cass Business School Research Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=286899 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.286899

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