Combining Value and Profitability Factors: the International Evidence
My October 29, 2020, article for Alpha Architect examined the research on the profitability factor. I then reviewed the findings of the June 2020 study [...]
Global Factor Performance: June 2021
The following factor performance modules have been updated on our Index website.[ref]free access for financial professionals[/ref] Standardized PerformanceFactor PerformanceFactor ExposuresFactor PremiumsFactor AttributionFactor Data Downloads
Still Using Book to Market for a Value Metric? Read This.
Going by the Book: Valuation Ratios and Stock Returns Choi, So and WangWorking Paper, 2021A version of this paper can be found here.Want to read our [...]
The Explanatory Power of Factor Momentum
Momentum is the tendency for assets that have performed well (poorly) in the recent past to continue to perform well (poorly) in the future, at [...]
Value and Momentum Investing: Combine or Separate?
When it comes to Value and Momentum investing we often get asked the following set of questions: Should I use value and momentum, in one [...]
Predictability of the Value Premium Across Asset Classes
The value spread is the difference between the value signal in the long versus the short portfolio. This isn’t the first time we have hit [...]
Are Ben Graham’s Disciples Value and Quality Factor Investors?
I examine the performance records of performance of Ben Graham's well-known disciples: Walter Schloss, Tom Knapp, Warren Buffett, Bill Ruane, Charlie Munger, Rick Guerin, and [...]
Fixed income when you’re between a rock and a hard place — Part 2/2
Part 2: From understanding factors to solving investor problems In Part 1, we defined fixed income factors. But factors alone will not solve each investor’s [...]
Value Investing Still Beats Growth Investing, Historically
In the past, I've seen comments on Twitter regarding the Russell 3,000 Value and Growth indices having approximately the same returns since inception. Let's talk [...]
Global Factor Performance: May 2021
The following factor performance modules have been updated on our Index website.[ref]free access for financial professionals[/ref] Standardized PerformanceFactor PerformanceFactor ExposuresFactor PremiumsFactor AttributionFactor Data Downloads
Text-Based Factor Investing
Part 1: The End of Accounting This is the first part of a series of guest posts by Kai Wu, the CIO & Founder of [...]
Resurrecting the Value Premium
The dramatic underperformance of value stocks as defined by the HmL (the return on high book-to-market stocks minus the return on low book-to-market stocks) since [...]
Building a Better q-Factor Asset Pricing Model
Since the development of the first asset pricing model, the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), academic research has attempted to develop models that increase the [...]
Advisor Analyst Podcast: Wes Discusses Concentrated Factor Investing
Our chat with Wes Gray illuminates the subtle nuance and discipline of concentrated factor investing, the difference between behavioural and risk-based factor premiums, and the [...]
How Portfolio Construction Impacts the Reliability of Outcomes
We are proponents of focused (i.e., 50 stock) long-only value and momentum factor strategies.[ref]Please note that in the context of long/short factor investing, which is [...]
Inflation and the Value Premium
The grand experiment of combining massive fiscal and monetary stimulus at a time when the economy is already recovering strongly—the Fed’s latest forecast for 2021 [...]
Global Factor Performance: April 2021
The following factor performance modules have been updated on our Index website.[ref]free access for financial professionals[/ref] Standardized PerformanceFactor PerformanceFactor ExposuresFactor PremiumsFactor AttributionFactor Data Downloads
The ETF Store: Nate/Wes Discuss Value, Momentum, and Launching ETFs
Wes Gray, CEO of Alpha Architect, talks about the value rotation, momentum stocks, the ETF white-labeling business, and more with Nate Geraci. External link to the [...]
Fixed Income when you’re Between a Rock and a Hard Place – Part 1/2
Figure 1: Investors are between a rock and a hard place.Source: Getty Images. Invesco. Investors are stuck between a rock and a hard place. On [...]
More on the Factor Investing Replication Debate
Open Source Cross-Sectional Asset Pricing Andrew Chen and Tom ZimmermannWorking paperA version of this paper can be found here What are the research questions? There has [...]