Borne in academia and raised by fund managers seeking to outperform, value style mutual funds and ETFs today hold close to $2 trillion[ref]Morningstar[/ref]. But with poor returns over the past decade, the question of whether [...]
Measuring Factor Exposures: Uses and Abuses Ronen Israel and Adrienne Ross The Journal of Alternative Investments A version of this paper can be found here Want to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out [...]
The "stock market," at least as measured via the S&P 500, has been on an epic performance run -- especially relative to almost all asset classes. It doesn't matter whether you look at the other [...]
Here is a link to our podcast on Behind the Markets: In this episode of Behind the Markets, our guest co-host Wes Gray of Alpha Architect brings on cybersecurity experts to discuss breaches and the [...]
Constructing Long-Only Multifactor Strategies: Portfolio Blending vs. Signal Blending Khalid Ghayur, CFA, Ronan Heaney, and Stephen Platt, CFA Financial Analysts Journal A version of this paper can be found here Want to read our summaries of [...]
Robert Novy-Marx’s 2013 paper “The Other Side of Value: The Gross Profitability Premium” not only provided investors with new insights into the cross-section of stock returns, but also helped further explain some of Warren Buffett’s [...]
The CAPM was the first formal asset-pricing model. Market beta was its sole factor. With the 1992 publication of their paper, “The Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns,” Eugene Fama and Kenneth French introduced a new-and-improved [...]
Factors, or "style" investing, seems to be all the rage these days, including the use of factors in fixed income (here, here and here are good places to start). However, many of these strategies focus on [...]
The Promises and Pitfalls of Factor Timing Jennifer Bender, Xiaole Sun, Ric Thomas and Volodymyr Zdorovtsov Journal of Portfolio Management A version of this paper can be found here Want to read our summaries of academic [...]
"How can a q-theoretic model price momentum?" is a new paper by Robert Novy-Marx and goes right to the heart of an intense debate ongoing in empirical asset pricing -- can neoclassic economic models explain [...]
Early in the summer, I was on a podcast with Corey Hoffstein discussing momentum investing. During the discussion, Corey asked me a question regarding risk versus mispricing, specific to the momentum anomaly. We frequently cite [...]
The 2014 study by Andrea Frazzini and Lasse Heje Pedersen, “Betting Against Beta,” found strong support for low-beta strategies. I’ve previously written on low-beta strategies here. This paper finds that, for U.S. stocks, the betting [...]
The Conservative Formula: Quantitative Investing made Easy Pim van Vliet and David Blitz A 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 is Smart Beta? Nobody really knows these days. Heck, even the godfather of smart beta, Rob Arnott, is no longer certain. Here's his original definition (from a great piece attempting to bring sanity to [...]
You can listen to the podcast via the link below: Here is a link to our podcast on the Stansberry Investor Hour. Show Summary It’s the 10-year anniversary of this extraordinary bull market, officially – [...]
Imagine you are an alien. You land on planet earth in 1927 and are given a mission. You are told that you need to solve a problem: compound $1,000,000. The goal: compound your extraterrestrial face off. [...]
Accruals are a part of any company's financial reporting. For those unfamiliar with accrual accounting, a simple explanation is that accruals are adjustments made for (1) revenue that has been earned but not received and [...]
Here is a link to our podcast on Behind the Markets In this episode of Behind the Markets host Wes Gray talks factor investing as a strategy with one of the few female portfolio managers [...]
Factor investing research has a long storied past. Fama and French's 1992 and 1993 papers arguably put factor investing "on the map," but truth be told, factor investing is an old topic with roots grounded [...]
Which Investment Factors Drive Corporate Bond Returns Turan G. Bali, Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, & Quan Wen A version of this paper can be found here. Want to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic [...]
