In their paper “Time Series Momentum,” published in the May 2012 issue of the Journal of Financial Economics, Tobias Moskowitz, Yao Hua Ooi and Lasse Pedersen documented significant time-series momentum (trend) in equity index, currency, [...]
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The Origins and Real Effects of the Gender Gap: Evidence from CEOs’ Formative Years Ran Duchin, Mikhail Simutin and Denis SosyuraReview of Financial Studies, 2020A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our [...]
Value investing is the age-old investment strategy that buys securities that appear cheap relative to some fundamental anchor. Ronen Israel, Kristoffer Laursen, Scott A. Richardson in "Is (Systematic) Value Investing Dead" There is a large [...]
Cross-Asset Skew Nick Baltas and Gabriel SalinasWorking Paper, SSRNA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic Research Insight category What are the research [...]
Momentum in prices is the tendency of assets that have performed well recently (such as over the prior year) to outperform assets in the same asset class that have performed poorly over the prior year. [...]
Impact Investing 2.0: Not Just for Do-Gooders Anymore Diana LiebermanThe Journal of Investing, Winter 2020A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic Research Insight category [...]
The coincidence of historically low-interest rates and the increased gift tax exemption under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has temporarily created an opportunity for high net worth families to tax-efficiently transfer wealth from generation to generation. Of course, families can use their [...]
The positive trade-off between risk and expected return is the most fundamental concept in financial economics. Most investors are risk-averse. In order to hold higher-risk securities, they demand higher compensation in the form of higher [...]
Enhanced Portfolio Optimization Lasse Heje Pedersen, Abhilash Babu, and Ari LevineWorking Paper, SSRNA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic Research Insight category [...]
Do treasuries, most yielding well south of 1%, have a place in a modern portfolio? Currently at these levels, I conclude they don’t. Modern Portfolio Theory says that “the market” portfolio, leveraged or not, has [...]
Market Return Around the Clock: A Puzzle Oleg Bondarenko and Dmitriy MuravyevWorking PaperA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic Research Insight category [...]
Board leadership positions elude diverse directors Laura Casares Field, Matthew Sauther and Adam YoreJournal of Financial Economics, 2020A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out [...]
Two of most documented anomalies in the asset pricing literature are the momentum effect and the long-term reversal effect. Momentum is typically defined as the last 12 months of returns excluding the most recent month [...]
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Time Series Momentum in the US Stock Market: Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Implications Valeriy Zakamulin and Javier GinerWorking paper, University of Agder and University of La LagunaA version of this paper can be found here [...]
Some Observations on Trend Following: A Binomial Perspective David M. ModestWorking Paper, QLS Partners LPA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic Research [...]
What if your portfolio was only based on one idea? Something like “stocks always go up” or “value always beats growth.” You may be learning a humbling lesson right now that Mr. Market has taught [...]
Interested in starting an ETF? Simply want to learn more about the process of launching an ETF? This piece is an introduction to ETF white label services, which is the industry term for a firm [...]
Campbell Harvey and Yan LiuJournal of Finance, 2020A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic Research Insight category What are the Research Questions? Whether they [...]
