Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/212367 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers No. 29/2016
Publisher: 
Bank of Finland, Helsinki
Abstract: 
We generalize the Ferreira and Santa-Clara (2011) sum-of-the-parts method for forecasting stock market returns. Rather than summing the parts of stock returns, we suggest summing some of the frequency-decomposed parts. The proposed method signi cantly improves upon the original sum-of-the-parts and delivers statistically and economically gains over historical mean forecasts, with monthly out-of-sample R2 of 2.60% and annual utility gains of 558 basis points. The strong performance of this method comes from its ability to isolate the frequencies of the parts with the highest predictive power, and from the fact that the selected frequency-decomposed parts carry complementary information that captures di erent frequencies of stock market returns.
JEL: 
G11
G12
G14
G17
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ISBN: 
978-952-323-136-8
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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