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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Boring versus Cheap Winners
Betting on Boring Winners
Last week I summarized the 2019 factor performance for U.S. stocks. A natural follow-up question was the following--"what about International stocks?" A great question. So below I dig into the 2019 performance for International Factor [...]
INTRODUCTION Factor investing is hard and some factors make it harder than others. A value strategy results in a portfolio of stocks that exhibit temporary or structural issues and are usually rated “Sell” by brokers, [...]
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 [...]
Welcome to a year-end installment of Reproducible Finance with R, a series posts that will be a little bit different from the norm on Alpha Architect (see here for my last post). We will search [...]
Protecting the Downside of Trend When It Is Not Your Friend Kun Yang, Edward Qian, and Bran Belton Journal of Portfolio Management A version of this paper can be found here Want to read our summaries [...]
Protecting the Downside of Trend When It Is Not Your Friend Kun Yang, Edward Qian, and Bran Belton Journal of Portfolio Management A version of this paper can be found here Want to read our summaries [...]
When Equity Factors Drop Their Shorts David Blitz, Guido Baltussen, and Pim van Vliet Working Paper A version of this paper can be found here Want to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out [...]
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 [...]
Research into the momentum factor continues to demonstrate its persistence and pervasiveness, including across factors. Recent papers have focused on trying to identify ways to improve the explanatory power and performance of momentum strategies. Prior [...]
A physicist, a chemist, and an economist are stranded on an island, with nothing to eat. A can of soup washes ashore. The physicist says, “Let’s smash the can open with a rock”. The chemist [...]
In “Your Complete Guide to Factor-Based Investing,” Andy Berkin and I presented the evidence demonstrating that momentum, both cross-sectional (or relative) momentum and time-series (or absolute, trend following) momentum, not only increases the explanatory power [...]
Welcome to the first installment of Reproducible Finance by way of Alpha Architect. For the uninitiated, this series is a bit different than the other stuff on AA - we'll focus on writing clean, reproducible [...]
Factor Premia and Factor Timing: A Century of Evidence Antti Ilmanen, Ronen Israel, Toby Moskowitz, Ashwin Thapar, and Franklin Wang Working paper A version of this paper can be found here What are the research questions? [...]
