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A colleague reports a daily information coefficient of on a liquid equity universe. What is your first reaction?
- ACongratulate them and size it up
- BLook for look-ahead bias in the alignment
- CConclude the market is inefficient
- DNothing unusual – 0.35 is around the typical daily IC for equities
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