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Aleph Blog Book Review

We post all reviews we come across on the web (let us know if we are missing any): https://alphaarchitect.com/reviews/ A recent review caught my attention: [...]

Cheap Stocks Win…EVERYWHERE

Value Around the World Nilufer Caliskan and Thorsten Hens A version of the paper can be found here. Want a summary of academic papers with alpha? [...]

Shareholder Yield is here!

Cambria Funds is out with an interesting ETF. http://www.cambriafunds.com/syld/ Here is the fact sheet: At 59bps, this fund is low-cost, tax-efficient, and likely to produce [...]

Fool.com Interviews

Mumbling, bumbling, and stumbling on a last minute interview with The Motley Fool, but there are few coherent bits in this interview. I've also got [...]

Quant Value Book Excerpt

Tadas Viskanta was kind enough to share an excerpt from out book with his blog audience. If you want to check it out, click the [...]

Correlation-Based Allocation Review

Sanz Prophet has a very detailed and interesting review of an idea we proposed recently: Correlation-Based Allocation. We propose a model that is designed to [...]

Flexible Asset Allocation

Generalized Momentum and Flexible Asset Allocation (FAA) An Heuristic Approach Wouter J. Keller and Hugo S.van Putten A recent version of the paper can be [...]

Low Beta/Vol Outperformance

There are many blogs/funds/research promoting low beta stocks as a way to get rich: A blog example --Falken A fund example --AQR Defensive Fund A [...]

Make 24bps a week trading skewness?

That is what Amaya, Christofferson, Jacobs, and Vasquez find. We use intraday data to compute weekly realized variance, skewness, and kurtosis for equity returns and [...]

Dividing Value into “Priced” and “Mispriced”

Gerakos and Linnainmaa have a new paper out: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2083166 and http://www.asb.unsw.edu.au/schools/bankingandfinance/Documents/J.Gerakos,%20J.T.%20Linnainmaa%20-%20The%20Unpriced%20Side%20of%20Value.pdf Here is code to perform the decomposition: http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/juhani.linnainmaa/ValueDecomposition.do Summary Book-to-market (BE/ME) ratios explain variation [...]

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