Barron's recently ran an article (written by Research Affiliates), which is titled "Get Smart About Picking Dividend-Rich Stocks." The article highlights that high-quality high-dividend-paying stocks outperform [...]
Many investors are getting excited about the so-called "profitability factor," originally posed by Novy-Marx (here is an alternative story) . Larry Swedroe has a high-level piece [...]
Last week I had the privilege of being on CNBC to talk about value investing. A big shout out to Josh Brown, who introduced me [...]
We've spent a lot of time these days thinking about how to identify economic moat, or a firm's ability to defend against competitive forces in [...]
Expected Skewness and Momentum Jacobs, Regele and Weber A version of the paper can be found here. Want a summary of academic papers with alpha? Check [...]
Executive Summary In this article, we identify how we can improve the performance of the F-Score and enhance a generic value investing approach. In a [...]
Patient Capital Outperformance Cremers and Pareek A version of the paper can be found here. Want a summary of academic papers with alpha? Check out our Academic [...]
A Value Investing Premium, Everywhere? A rich body of literature has shown that value investing, or buying stocks that are "cheap" based on a variety of valuation [...]
The Best Investment with the Worst Performance We are huge believers in value investing. I personally started off as a fundamental value guy, spending twenty-plus [...]
Quick Summary For a bond momentum strategy, it makes sense to select the top 3 or top 6 funds.The starting universe matters.One must consider the taxes and [...]
Beating a Dead Horse: Value investing and momentum investing work At this stage in our lives we've essentially memorized the CRSP/Compustat database. Name an anomaly and [...]
Predicting Material Accounting Misstatements Dechow, Ge, Larson and Sloan A version of the paper can be found here. Want a summary of academic papers with alpha? [...]
Executive Summary Although it has been very difficult to overcome our initial skepticism, we've finally accepted the notion that simple technical analysis may serve as [...]
Investing in strategies that exploit the low volatility anomaly have grown in popularity in recent years. While low volatility based strategies may or may not [...]
There is sometimes confusion associated with so-called "momentum" strategies--we want to clear the muddy waters. We break momentum into two categories to differentiate between the different [...]
The evidence suggests that we keep highly active exposures to value and momentum in their purest forms (assuming we are doing high-conviction non-watered down versions of the anomalies). Blending the strategy dilutes the benefit of value and momentum portfolios. The summary of the benefits of a pure value and a pure momentum approach can be summarized as follows: Easier ex-post assessment, stronger portfolio diversification benefits, and stronger expected performance.
Multifactor Explanations of Asset Pricing Anomalies Fama and French (1996) A version of the paper can be found here. Want a summary of academic papers with [...]
Beware of any investment that has the word, "yield," embedded in the title. This is especially important for "dividend yield" strategies. Because the term makes investors [...]
Higher‐Moment Risk Exposures in Hedge Funds This paper singles out the key roles of US equity skewness and kurtosis in the hedge fund return generating [...]
Rebalance frequency affects value and quality factors in different ways: Value works better when assessed more frequently Quality factors work about the same, regardless of frequently. Other important [...]
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