Prior Research on Value and Profitability Factors The 1997 publication of Mark Carhart’s paper “On Persistence in Mutual Fund Performance” led to the four-factor model, which added momentum to market beta, size, and value, becoming [...]
On the Performance of Volatility-Managed Portfolios Scott Cederburg, Michael S. O’Doherty, Feifei Wang, Xuemin (Sterling) YanJournal of Financial EconomicsA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check [...]
INTRODUCTION The two basic rules of asset allocation are: i) identify assets with positive expected payoffs, and ii) ensure that the assets are not too highly correlated, so that diversification benefits can be harvested. Although [...]
Zero-Revelation RegTech: Detecting Risk through Linguistic Analysis of Corporate Emails and News S.R. Das, S. Kim, B. KothariJournal of Financial Data Science, Spring 2019A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries [...]
Time-series momentum (TSMOM) historically has demonstrated abnormal excess returns. Also called trend following, it is measured by a portfolio that is long assets that have had recent positive returns and short assets that have had [...]
How news and its context drive risk and returns around the world Charles Calomiris and Harry MamayskyJournal of Financial Economics, August 2019A version of this paper can be found here.Want to read our summaries of academic [...]
Introduction This project builds on research conducted by J. Piotroski, who published his paper Value Investing: The Use of Historical Financial Statement Information to Separate Winners from Losers in 2000, offering a simple yet powerful [...]
Institutional Investment Strategy and Manager Choice: A Critique Richard M. EnnisJournal of Portfolio Management A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic Research [...]
Do-It-Yourself tactical asset allocation weights for the Robust Asset Allocation Index are posted here. (Note: free registration required) Request a free account here if you want to access the site directly. Exposure Highlights (bold implies [...]
Among the assumptions in the first formal asset pricing model, the CAPM, is that investors are risk-averse, they maximize the expected utility of absolute wealth, and they care only about the mean and variance of [...]
Investor-Stock Decoupling in Mutual Funds Miguel A. Ferreira, Massimo Massa, Pedro MatosManagement Science, forthcomingA version of this paper can be found here.Want to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic Research Insight category What [...]
We at ENJINE are big believers in the potential of machine learning (or as some call, “artificial intelligence”) to transform asset management. However, it’s fair to say that machine learning hasn’t received mass adoption in [...]
Intangible Capital and the Value Factor: Has Your Value Definition Just Expired? Noël Amenc, Felix Goltz, and Ben LuytenJournal of Portfolio ManagementA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic [...]
The price momentum and accruals (the difference between accounting earnings and cash flows—adjustments made for revenue that has been earned but not received, and costs that have been incurred but not paid) anomalies are two [...]
Can mutual fund stars still pick stocks?: A replication and extension of Kosowski, Timmermann, Wermers, and White (2006) Timothy Riley and Sam WaltonCritical Review of Finance, 2019A version of this paper can be found hereWant to [...]
Utilizing an Amended CAPE Ratio to Derive a Country's Expected Return and Develop Portfolio Rotation Between Countries Sailesh S. RadhaJournal of Portfolio ManagementA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of [...]
Predicting Bond Returns: 70 Years of International Evidence Guido Baltussen, Martin Martens, Olaf PenningaWorking PaperA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic Research Insight category [...]
Annuities are popular tools for retirement income planning. While stigmas exist around some annuity products (for good reason), recent research shows how fixed annuities can add value in the context of retirement income. In addition [...]
Do-It-Yourself tactical asset allocation weights for the Robust Asset Allocation Index are posted here. (Note: free registration required) Request a free account here if you want to access the site directly. Exposure Highlights (bold implies [...]
The Effects of Portfolio Construction on the Performance of Style Factor ETFs or How to Build a Style Factor ETF That Does What It Says Jason MacQueenJournal of Portfolio Management A version of this paper [...]
