Comments on: Business Week: Risky Business, Risky Words http://www.webword.com/wp/2006/07/06/business-week-risky-business-risky-words/ The usability blog of John S. Rhodes Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:45:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Monday Reading on InvestorGeeks http://www.webword.com/wp/2006/07/06/business-week-risky-business-risky-words/comment-page-1/#comment-18668 Monday Reading on InvestorGeeks Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:08:04 +0000 http://www.webword.com/2006/07/06/business-week-risky-business-risky-words/#comment-18668 [...] WebWord has a good write up about Professor Feng Li who data mined the annual reports of 34,180 companies with some interesting results. Professor Li discovered that a “big jump in words related to risk is usually followed by poor share performance” which makes a ton of sense. He built a model portfolio based on this data. The punch line is that he would have outperformed the S&P 500 index by 6% per year since 1995. Smashing! [...] [...] WebWord has a good write up about Professor Feng Li who data mined the annual reports of 34,180 companies with some interesting results. Professor Li discovered that a “big jump in words related to risk is usually followed by poor share performance” which makes a ton of sense. He built a model portfolio based on this data. The punch line is that he would have outperformed the S&P 500 index by 6% per year since 1995. Smashing! [...]

]]> By: Jason Coleman http://www.webword.com/wp/2006/07/06/business-week-risky-business-risky-words/comment-page-1/#comment-18642 Jason Coleman Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:22:03 +0000 http://www.webword.com/2006/07/06/business-week-risky-business-risky-words/#comment-18642 I had a longer comment on this which, by the looks of it didn't make it through. The gist of it was... This kind of stuff is cool. Here is a link to a guy at Accenture who works on stuff like this, though he hasn't posted lately: http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/Accenture_Blogs/Mike_Bechtel/default.htm And we should definately work on this sometime, John. I'm freeing up in mid August. I had a longer comment on this which, by the looks of it didn’t make it through. The gist of it was…

This kind of stuff is cool.

Here is a link to a guy at Accenture who works on stuff like this, though he hasn’t posted lately: http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/Accenture_Blogs/Mike_Bechtel/default.htm

And we should definately work on this sometime, John. I’m freeing up in mid August.

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