Smart(er) Investing – The Easy Way
Most of the time we make you "earn your education" by reading our posts to build up your knowledge of the latest and greatest academic research concepts. That said, we understand there are different ways [...]
Compound Your Knowledge Ep 29: What’s the Story Behind EBIT/TEV?
This week we discuss Ryan's article examining the Enterprise Multiple, EBIT/TEV, or Earnings Before Interest and Taxes (EBIT) divided by the firm's Total Enterprise Value (TEV). Article Links: What's the Story Behind EBIT/TEV [...]
Absolute Value Versus Relative Value: A Quick Note on the Value Debate
We've saw a spike in questions the last few days related to the various "value is really cheap posts" coming into the mainstream. This conversation was elevated after Cliff Asness posted the best piece of [...]
The Size Effect in Multifactor Portfolios
The lack of a statistically significant size premium in the U.S. since the publication of Rolf Banz’s 1981 paper, “The Relationship Between Return and Market Value of Common Stocks,” published in the Journal of Financial [...]
Cheap vs. Expensive Factors: Does Valuation Matter for Future Returns?
Tesla (TSLA) breached the $100 billion market capitalization in January 2020 and became the most valuable car manufacturer globally. However, valuing the company is challenging given the growth profile, complexity of the business, and erratic [...]
What’s the Story Behind EBIT/TEV?
A common question we receive at Alpha Architect is the following: Why do you focus on EBIT/TEV as a value screen for stocks instead of the more traditional measures such as book to price? In [...]
Trend Following is Everywhere
Similar to some better-known factors, such as size and value, time-series momentum (TSMOM) historically has demonstrated abnormal excess returns. For the less familiar with trend following it's worth your time to review Alpha Architects white [...]
Dividends, Stock Prices, and Inflation.
Building on the concepts presented in my Dividends Are Different article, here we present data and observations highlighting the relationship between inflation and 1) company fundamentals, 2) dividends, and 3) stock market movements.It may be [...]
Is There a Tail Risk Premium in Stocks?
It has been well documented both that stock returns have much fatter tails than a normal distribution would generate, and that tail events occur much more frequently than a normal curve would predict.editor's note: This [...]
How Cheap (or Expensive) Are Value Stocks?
What are the two most annoying words in forecasting? IT DEPENDS. In this piece we look at the "value" of value, which has been beaten down recently. A few questions arise in this scenario: How [...]
Trend Following Reality: You Need Trends to Trend-Follow
You Can't Always Trend When You Want Abhilash Babu, Brendan Hoffman, Ari Levine, Yao Hua Ooi, Sarah Schroeder and Erik Stamelos The Journal of Portfolio Management, March 2020A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic [...]
The Economic Consequences of Pandemics: A Guide from History
Pandemics: Long-Run Effects Òscar Jordà, Sanjay R. Singh, Alan M. TaylorCEPR PressA 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 are [...]
Volatility, Risk Management, and Market Chaos: Research that Might Help
Given the recent market decline, we thought it would be helpful to review some of our blog posts from the past that may be relevant to the current crisis atmosphere. These posts focus on research [...]
Pandemics and Factor Investing: A Glimpse into the Past
Equity Styles and the Spanish Flu Guido Baltussen, Pim van VlietA 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 [...]
An Empirical Challenge for Trend-Following
Editor's Note: For the foreseeable future, we'll be focusing on research that explores investment strategies that are believed to help investors manage risk and diversify their portfolios. Time Series Momentum: Is it There? Dashan Huang [...]
Compound Your Knowledge Ep 27: Value, Momentum, and Low Volatility
In this video, we examine two articles highlighted on our site. The first article, written by Larry Swedroe, examines the Value and Momentum performance over the past two years ( highlighting great research by the [...]
Corporate Governance, ESG, and Stock Returns around the World
Corporate Governance, ESG, and Stock Returns around the World Mozzafar KahnFinancial Analysts JournalA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic Research Insight category [...]
Is There Something Wrong with the Value Premium?
The dramatic underperformance of the value premium since 2018, among the largest drawdowns in history, has led many to question its existence. It is certainly possible that what economists call a “regime change” could cause [...]
The Use and Value of Financial Advice for Retirement Planning: Part 1/2
The Use and Value of Financial Advice for Retirement Planning W.V. Arlow, K.C. Brown, and S.E. JenksJournal of Retirement, Winter 2020A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance [...]
Low Volatility-Momentum Versus Value-Momentum Factor Portfolios
Boring versus Cheap Winners