Accruals and Momentum and Their Implications for Factor Investors
The price momentum and accruals (the difference between accounting earnings and cash flows—adjustments made for revenue that has been earned but not received, and costs [...]
Cross-Asset Signals and Time-Series Momentum
In their paper “Time Series Momentum,” published in the May 2012 issue of the Journal of Financial Economics, Tobias Moskowitz, Yao Hua Ooi and Lasse [...]
Fundamental Momentum, the Carry Trade, and Currency Returns
Momentum in prices is the tendency of assets that have performed well recently (such as over the prior year) to outperform assets in the same [...]
Left Tail Risk and Left Tail Momentum
The positive trade-off between risk and expected return is the most fundamental concept in financial economics. Most investors are risk-averse. In order to hold higher-risk [...]
Combining Momentum with Long-Term Reversal
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 [...]
Value Factor Diversification: Is Quality Better Than Momentum?
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Low Volatility-Momentum Versus Value-Momentum Factor Portfolios
Boring versus Cheap Winners
Global Low Volatility and Momentum Factor Investing Portfolios
Betting on Boring Winners
Factor Investing Update: An Analysis of 2019 International Factor Returns
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 [...]
Low Volatility-Momentum Factor Investing Portfolios
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 [...]
How to Turn Cross-Sectional into Time-Series Momentum (and be home in time for dinner)
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 [...]
Visualization Sector Trends with R Code
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 [...]
Protecting the Downside of Trend When It Is Not Your Friend: Part 2/2
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 [...]
Protecting the Downside of Trend When It Is Not Your Friend : Part 1
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 [...]
Forbidden Knowledge: Long-Only Academic Factors are Also Cool
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 [...]
Are Value, Carry and Momentum Regime Dependent?
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. [...]
Using Firm Characteristics to Enhance Momentum Strategies
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 [...]