Media Coverage and Stock Returns
Ninety Years of Media Coverage and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns Hillert and Ungeheuer A version of the paper can be found here. Want a summary [...]
Is Price Momentum a Brother From Another Mother?
Fundamentally, Momentum is Fundamental Momentum Robert Novy-Marx A version of the paper can be found here. Want a summary of academic papers with alpha? Check out [...]
‘Tis the Season for strange effects in the stock market.
The efficient market hypothesis suggests that stock prices are always “right” in the sense that stock prices reflect all available information. Of course, during tax [...]
Expanding the Efficient Frontier with Value and Momentum Strategies
Awww...modern portfolio theory...that feel-good construct I teach to all of my graduate-level finance students each year. Simply input 1) a vector of expected returns and [...]
The Quantitative Momentum Investing Philosophy
Eugene Fama, the 2014 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics and father of the efficient market hypothesis, and his equally well-credentialed co-author, Ken French, [...]
Momentum Investing: Why Does Seasonality Matter for Momentum?
Causes and Seasonality of Momentum Profits Richard Sias A version of the paper can be found here. Want a summary of academic papers with alpha? Check [...]
Frog in the Pan: Identifying the Highest Quality Momentum Stocks
Frog in the Pan: Continuous Information and Momentum Da, Gurun and Warachka A version of the paper can be found here. Want a summary of academic [...]
How Portfolio Construction Affects Momentum Funds
We have already documented the returns to generic momentum investing strategies. Within the fund marketplace, many investors focus on fees and less on process. For example, Morningstar highlights the fees [...]
DIY Asset Allocation Weights: November 2015
Do-It-Yourself tactical asset allocation weights are posted. Create a free account here if you want to access the site directly. Sign in here if you already have a [...]
Why I Don’t Invest in Momentum Stocks…Yet!
Confirmation bias is the tendency to cling to research/ideas that confirm with what you already believe. This behavioral bias leads to overconfidence and can impede our search for [...]
Cliff Asness Quick Hits: Smart Beta and Risk Parity
Cliff Asness gave a talk at The Bloomberg Markets Most Influential Summit a few weeks ago, and offered up some discussion of recent market developments, [...]
Absolute Strength Momentum Investing Strategy
Here we highlight an interesting working paper titled "Absolute Strength: Exploring Momentum in Stock Returns" by Gulen and Petkova (2015). The abstract is the following: [...]
Daily Academic Alpha: Momentum Investing and Asset Allocation
The results in this paper won't surprise most who are regular readers, but the paper below does a nice job explaining things in a simple [...]
Combining volatility, momentum, and trend in asset allocation
The Effective Combination of Risk-Based Strategies with Momentum and Trend Following Gregory Guilmin A version of the paper can be found here. Want a summary of [...]
Combining Value and Momentum in Stock Selection and Market Timing
Recently, we wrote two posts about how to combine Value and Momentum for stock selection purposes (Part 1 and Part 2). We followed this piece with a post [...]
Momentum Investing: Skewness-enhanced Momentum Yields Double Alpha
Expected Skewness and Momentum Jacobs, Regele and Weber A version of the paper can be found here. Want a summary of academic papers with alpha? Check [...]
Momentum Investing: A Simple Bond Momentum Strategy
Quick Summary For a bond momentum strategy, it makes sense to select the top 3 or top 6 funds.The starting universe matters.One must consider the taxes and [...]
Are Value Investing and Momentum Investing Robust Anomalies?
Beating a Dead Horse: Value investing and momentum investing work At this stage in our lives we've essentially memorized the CRSP/Compustat database. Name an anomaly and [...]
Absolute Momentum and Stock Momentum Strategies: Friends, not enemies
There is sometimes confusion associated with so-called "momentum" strategies--we want to clear the muddy waters. We break momentum into two categories to differentiate between the different [...]
How to Combine Value and Momentum Investing Strategies
The evidence suggests that we keep highly active exposures to value and momentum in their purest forms (assuming we are doing high-conviction non-watered down versions of the anomalies). Blending the strategy dilutes the benefit of value and momentum portfolios. The summary of the benefits of a pure value and a pure momentum approach can be summarized as follows: Easier ex-post assessment, stronger portfolio diversification benefits, and stronger expected performance.