Podcast: Factor Investing with Vanguard Factor Fund PM Liqian Ren (Wes & Jack)
Here is a link to our podcast on Behind the Markets In this episode of Behind the Markets host Wes Gray talks factor investing as [...]
Factor Investing Insights You Won’t Hear from Fama and French
Factor investing research has a long storied past. Fama and French's 1992 and 1993 papers arguably put factor investing "on the map," but truth be [...]
Which Investment Factors Drive Corporate Bond Returns
Which Investment Factors Drive Corporate Bond Returns Turan G. Bali, Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, & Quan Wen A version of this paper can be found here. Want to [...]
Deconstructing the Low Volatility/Low Beta Anomaly
One of the big problems for the first formal asset pricing model developed by financial economists, the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), was that it [...]
Do Fundamentals Still Drive Market Prices? Or Have ETFs Taken Over?
What causes a stock's price to move? A great question, and one that puzzles most market observers every day. Since this is puzzling, it is [...]
Podcast: Momentum in Theory, Momentum in Practice (Jack)
Here is a link to our podcast on Flirting with Models. Today I am speaking with Jack Vogel, co-CIO of boutique ETF issuer Alpha Architect. [...]
Explaining the Beta Anomaly
The superior performance of low-beta and low-volatility stocks was documented in the literature back in the 1970s — by Fischer Black (in 1972) among others [...]
Why you should trust the investment process (even though it’s hard)
In this article, we discuss why trusting an investment process can be very hard, and how you should approach the challenge. Trust the Process - [...]
The 52 Week High and the Q-Factor Investment Model
In the past, we have examined the following two topics: (1) stock performance & the 52-week high and (2) the investment CAPM. When examining the [...]
The Future for Factor Investing May Be Different Than its Backtested Past
We believe there are cause and effect relationships in the world -- and in investing -- that hold true over time. Many are common sense [...]
The Inconsistent Performance of Value and Size Factors in the Chinese A-Share Market
Fama–French in China: Size and Value Factors in Chinese Stock Returns Grace Xing Hu, Can Chen, Yuan Shao, and Jiang Wang International Review of Finance [...]
Factor Regressions Problems and How to Fix Them
Factor Regressions are one way to ascertain a fund's exposure to certain factors that an investor/advisor may want to allocate towards, such as Value, Momentum, [...]
Investor Attention and the Low Volatility Anomaly
One of the big problems for the first formal asset pricing model developed by financial economists, the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), was that it [...]
Explaining the Demand for Higher Beta Stocks
The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) indicates returns should go up linearly as beta increases (in other words, risk and return are positively related). However, [...]
Podcast: Value Investing in India and Technology
Here is a link to our podcast on Behind the Markets This is a special episode of Behind the Markets with Wharton alumni for SiriusXM's [...]
Value Investing Portfolios are Not Dead, But Some Have Done Better than Others
Mirror, mirror, on the wall – which is the fairest of them all? Recent commentary (to include a recent Barron's article) seems to suggest that [...]
Are Trend-Following and Time-Series Momentum Research Results Robust?
When it comes to trend following and/or time-series momentum research, we got ya covered! A few places to dig in: Evidence for Long-Term Trend-Following by Alpha [...]
The Costs of Implementing Momentum Strategies
There are now hundreds of factors in what John Cochrane famously called the “zoo of factors.” However, there are only a small number that meet [...]
The World’s Longest Multi-Asset Momentum Investing Backtest!
As evidenced by the image below, interest in momentum research has taken off since the original 1993 Jegadeesh and Titman paper: Source: "Two Centuries of [...]
Bond Investing: Reach for Safety
Yield. Within almost any asset class, investors want to know, what is the "yield" on the investment? For some investors, this is the most important [...]