Cross-Sectional and Time-Series Tests of Return Predictability: What Is the Difference? Amit Goyal and Narasimhan JegadeeshA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our [...]
Why Do Enterprise Multiples Predict Expected Stock Returns? Steve Crawford, Wesley Gray and Jack VogelJournal of Portfolio Management, forthcomingA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check [...]
INTRODUCTION Funds flows are frequently analyzed by investors to gauge the demand for investment strategies, but it represents a challenging exercise. Key issues are data availability as few market participants disclose their holdings as well [...]
Foundations of ESG Investing: How ESG Affects Equity Valuation, Risk, and Performance Guido Giese, Linda-Eling Lee, Dimitris Melas, Zoltán Nagy, and Laura NishikawaJournal of Portfolio ManagementA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read [...]
1. Introduction In an influential piece, Sharpe (1991)Sharpe, W.F. 1991. The arithmetic of active management. Financial Analysts Journal, 47(1), pp.7-9.9 put forward the proposition that active investing must be a losing pursuit in aggregate, [...]
Asset Allocation vs. Factor Allocation—Can We Build a Unified Method? Jennifer Bender, Jerry Le Sun, and Ric ThomasJournal of Portfolio ManagementA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance [...]
Klaus Grobys contributes to the literature on asset pricing models with his October 2019 paper, “Another Look on Choosing Factors: The International Evidence.” Using bootstrap simulations, Grobys examined international markets, specifically the four regions of [...]
Transaction Costs of Factor-Investing Strategies Feifei Li, Tzee-Man Chow, Alex Pickard & Yadwinder GargFinancial Analysts JournalA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic [...]
Authors: Ying Xiao and Glen C. Arnold A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic Research Insight category Introduction This is our [...]
A large body of evidence demonstrates that investment strategies focused on buying stocks that are cheap relative to measures of fundamental value have achieved higher long-term returns than the broad market. Motivated by such legendary [...]
Protecting the Downside of Trend When It Is Not Your Friend Kun Yang, Edward Qian, and Bran BeltonJournal of Portfolio ManagementA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance [...]
When Equity Factors Drop Their Shorts David Blitz, Guido Baltussen, and Pim van VlietWorking PaperA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic Research Insight category [...]
And the Winner Is…A Comparison of Valuation Measures for Equity Country Allocation Adam Zaremba and Jan Jakub SzczygielskiJournal of Portfolio ManagementA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance [...]
Recently I was invited to talk with Stig and Preston on The Investor's Podcast. I thank them for the opportunity and enjoyed the conversation! Below are some of the topics we discussed: What is factor [...]
Over the past decade academics and practitioners alike have argued that multi-factor portfolios offer significant benefits to investors looking for enhanced and more diversified solutions. Among the papers making this argument is “The Death of [...]
Lowering Portfolio Risk with Corporate Social Responsibility Clark, Krieger, and MauckJournal of Investing, February 2019A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic Research Insight category What [...]
Editor's note: Earlier this week, Lu Zhang discussed his thoughts on the investment factor and expected returns. In this piece, Larry discusses a recent research piece that tells a different side of the story. We [...]
A new DFA article by Rizova and Saito (2019, “Investment and Expected Stock Returns”) Sadly this article is currently only available to clients of Dimensional Fund Advisers rehashes previous arguments in Fama and French [...]
Responsible Investing: The Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) - Efficient Frontier Lasse Heje Pedersen, Shaun Fitzgibbons, and Lukasz PomorskiWorking PaperA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? [...]
Here is a link to our podcast on "Rational Reminder": Today we are joined by Wesley Gray who is the CEO of Alpha Architect, a firm in the US that specializes in concentrated factor strategies. [...]
