Weekend Geekout: The History of Low Volatility Investing
Eric Falkenstein is an economist, with a PhD in economics, a quantitative geek, and a book writer. In his blog, Falkenblog, there are voluminous mind-blowing articles since [...]
Why Indexing and “Smart Beta” Are So Popular
Asset Manager Contracts and Equilibrium Prices Buffa, Vayanos, and Woolley (2014) A version of the paper can be found here. Want a summary of academic papers [...]
Quantitative Momentum Research: Short-Term Return Reversal
Fads, Martingales, and Market Efficiency Lehmann A version of the paper can be found here. Want a summary of academic papers with alpha? Check out our Academic [...]
Quantitative Momentum Research: Long-Term Return Reversal
Does the Stock Market Overreact? De Bondt and Thaler A version of the paper can be found here. Want a summary of academic papers with alpha? [...]
Quantitative Momentum Research: Intermediate-Term Momentum
Return to Buying Winners and Selling Losers: Implications for Stock Market Efficiency Jegadeesh and Titman A version of the paper can be found here. Want a [...]
Value Investing: 2014 Value Stock Research Recap
The success and failure of value investing can be boiled down into two components: Buy Cheap Stuff Avoid Behavioral Bias Buy Cheap Stuff Ben Graham outlined [...]
How to Calculate Volatility in Excel
Wild-swinging oil prices have caused some chaos, or "volatility," in the financial markets recently. We've also heard a lot in the financial media regarding the [...]
Value Investing: Digging Manager Graveyards Since 1963.
Following value strategies can be hazardous to one's wealth in the short run. Oil stocks are a great example of the challenge value investors face: The stocks [...]
Oil Stocks: A Real-Time Case Study in Value Investing
I just took a snapshot of the front page of Yahoo Finance, CNBC.com, and Bloomberg.com: Bloomberg.com @ 1725 EST CNBC.com @ 1725 [...]
Quant Value $19.99 Book Deal is Over
Wow. We blew out 300+ books in a few weeks. There are a lot more quant geeks out there than I originally suspected. Holy mackerel! [...]
Chatting Quant Value @ Wharton Today–Business Radio
http://businessradio.wharton.upenn.edu/programs/behind-the-markets-with-jeremy-siegel/ I'll be chatting with the "Jeremys" on Sirius Radio on Business Radio Channel 111. @ 1pm EST Hosts Jeremy Siegel Professor Jeremy Siegel is [...]
Mission Impossible: Beating the Market Forever
A quick glance at the most recent Berkshire Hathaway annual report (PDF) highlights an amazing data point: Warren Buffett has compounded at 19.7% a year from 1965 through 2013; the S&P 500 Total Return Index has compounded at 9.8% a year from 1965 through 2013. The immediate reaction to these figures is predictable: “Warren Buffett is an investing god, so we should buy Berkshire Hathaway and throw away the keys.” The gut reaction is that Buffett can continue to beat the market forever. Unfortunately, as this post highlights, this is an impossible feat.
Quantitative Value Research: NCAV/MV Factor
Testing Benjamin Graham's Net Current Asset Value Strategy in London Xiao and Arnold A version of the paper can be found here. Want a summary of [...]
The Secret to Momentum is the 52-Week High???
The 52-Week High and Momentum Investing Thomas J. George and Chuan-Yang Hwang A version of the paper can be found here. Want a summary of academic [...]
Quantitative Value Research: Long-term P/E Ratio
The Long-Term Price-Earnings Ratio Anderson and Brooks A version of the paper can be found here. Want a summary of academic papers with alpha? Check out [...]
Mind the Gap: A Way to Enhance Momentum Profits
The Momentum Gap and Return Predictability Simon Huang A version of the paper can be found here. Want a summary of academic papers with alpha? Check [...]
Face-ripping Drawdowns and the Magic Formula
Due to a surge of interest from our "Long Cheap; Short Expensive. Buyer Beware" post, we decided to analyze the impact of changing the net exposure of the Magic [...]
Quantitative Value Research: Weighted P/E Bracket
Decomposing the Price-Earning Ratio Anderson and Brooks A version of the paper can be found here. Want a summary of academic papers with alpha? Check out [...]
Quantitative Value Research: A Summary of Various Value Metrics!
Analyzing Valuation Measures: A Performance Horse-Race Over the Past 40 Years Gray and Vogel A version of the paper can be found here and here. Want a [...]
Digging into the Enterprise Multiple Value Factor
New Evidence on the Relation Between the Enterprise Multiple and Average Stock Returns Loughran and Wellman A version of the paper can be found here. (Also described [...]