Spin-offs from Joel Greenblatt book "You Can Be a Stock Market Genius"

AOL Spin-off Pricing Inefficiency

If accurately identified spin-off pricing inefficiency can be potentially beneficial to acute investors.
Crucial factors for successful spin-off investing to consider include:
1. Timing of initial purchase of parent company
2. Length of the holding period
3. Selectivity


Very good read is here from SpinoffAdvisors

Tim Armstrong helps AOL Spin-off

Tim Armstrong, former Google's head of US ad sales will help AOL's spin-off this December from Time Warner Inc
Why he left Google for AOL? He wanted a new challenge. He thinks fixing AOL is a better job.
Listen to his public discussion of behavioral advertising over here.
In most cases a parent company and her "spinoff" significantly outperform the market averages.
Good home style very recent interview ("new adv idea"?) with Tim Armstrong AOL SEO from Astrout's YouTube Channel
Finally the AOL is independent