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 [...]
Monster Factor Correlation Chart
We recently added a monster correlation matrix to our factor library data sheet that maps out the correlation of all the factors against every other [...]
5 Surprising Things We Learned from a Factor Investing Expert
Lu Zhang and his colleagues made some waves with their new paper, “Replicating Anomalies.” (now published in the RFS -- congrats!). We have a summary [...]
Excess Returns Podcast: Systematic Value Investing (Wes)
Recently I was invited to talk with Justin and Jack on the Excess Returns Podcast. I thank them for the opportunity and enjoyed the conversation! [...]
Do Interest Rates Explain Value’s Underperformance?
From January 2017 through March 2020, the value premium, defined by HML (the return of high book-to-market stocks minus the return of low book-to-market stocks [...]
Is value dead? Has the story changed? No.
Is (systematic) Value Investing Dead? Ronen Israel, Kristoffer Laursen and Scott RichardsonWorking Paper, published at aqr.comA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read [...]
Smart(er) Investing – The Easy Way
Most of the time we make you "earn your education" by reading our posts to build up your knowledge of the latest and greatest academic [...]
Compound Your Knowledge Ep 29: What’s the Story Behind EBIT/TEV?
This week we discuss Ryan's article examining the Enterprise Multiple, EBIT/TEV, or Earnings Before Interest and Taxes (EBIT) divided by the firm's Total Enterprise Value [...]
Absolute Value Versus Relative Value: A Quick Note on the Value Debate
We've saw a spike in questions the last few days related to the various "value is really cheap posts" coming into the mainstream. This conversation [...]