Institutional Investment Strategies: Keep it Simple
Institutional Investment Strategy and Manager Choice: A Critique Richard M. EnnisJournal of Portfolio Management A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our [...]
Lottery Preferences and Their Relationship with Factor Investing
Among the assumptions in the first formal asset pricing model, the CAPM, is that investors are risk-averse, they maximize the expected utility of absolute wealth, [...]
How To Design Machine Learning Models – A Market Timing Example
We at ENJINE are big believers in the potential of machine learning (or as some call, “artificial intelligence”) to transform asset management. However, it’s fair [...]
Intangible Capital and the Value Factor: Has Your Value Definition Just Expired?
Intangible Capital and the Value Factor: Has Your Value Definition Just Expired? Noël Amenc, Felix Goltz, and Ben LuytenJournal of Portfolio ManagementA version of this [...]
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 [...]
Can We Use the Shiller CAPE Ratio to Forecast Country Returns?
Utilizing an Amended CAPE Ratio to Derive a Country's Expected Return and Develop Portfolio Rotation Between Countries Sailesh S. RadhaJournal of Portfolio ManagementA version of [...]
Effects of Portfolio Construction on the Performance of Style Factor ETFs
This article discusses the research surrounding style factor ETFs, specifically the effects of portfolio construction on their performance. The Effects of Portfolio Construction on the [...]
How to Measure and Understand Portfolio Tail Risk Events
Arnold Polanski, Evarist Stoja, Frank WindmeijerJournal of Applied Econometrics, 2019A version of this paper can be found here.Want to read our summaries of academic finance [...]
Even Great Investments Experience Massive Drawdowns
Editor's Note: The ability of value investors to adhere to their investment strategy has been put to the greatest test ever. From January 2017 through [...]
Value Investing: An Examination of the 1,000 Largest Firms
Among stock investors, a common strategy/belief held is Value investing -- buying stocks that are relatively cheaper on price/fundamental ratios. Is Value investing dead? The [...]
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 [...]
Is Systematic Value Dead???
Value investing is the age-old investment strategy that buys securities that appear cheap relative to some fundamental anchor.Ronen Israel, Kristoffer Laursen, Scott A. Richardson in [...]
Relative Skewness: A New Risk Factor?
Cross-Asset Skew Nick Baltas and Gabriel SalinasWorking Paper, SSRNA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check [...]
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 [...]
What is Impact Investing?
Impact Investing 2.0: Not Just for Do-Gooders Anymore Diana LiebermanThe Journal of Investing, Winter 2020A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our [...]
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 [...]
Market Return Around the Clock
Market Return Around the Clock: A Puzzle Oleg Bondarenko and Dmitriy MuravyevWorking PaperA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of [...]
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 [...]
Order Flow Correlation May Imply Momentum Factor Crowding
Zooming In on Equity Factor Crowding Valerio Volpati, Michael Benzaquen, Zoltán Eisler, Iacopo Mastromatteo, Bence Tóth, and Jean-Philippe BouchaudWorking Paper, SSRNA version of this paper [...]