Diversification. It looks great on paper, but for the past ten years, being globally and “Factor” diversified has been anything but great. Understandably, many diversified investors are looking at their returns and wondering why they [...]
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 our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic [...]
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 (TEV). Article Links: What's the Story Behind EBIT/TEV [...]
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 was elevated after Cliff Asness posted the best piece of [...]
Tesla (TSLA) breached the $100 billion market capitalization in January 2020 and became the most valuable car manufacturer globally. However, valuing the company is challenging given the growth profile, complexity of the business, and erratic [...]
A common question we receive at Alpha Architect is the following: Why do you focus on EBIT/TEV as a value screen for stocks instead of the more traditional measures such as book to price? In [...]
What are the two most annoying words in forecasting? IT DEPENDS. In this piece we look at the "value" of value, which has been beaten down recently. A few questions arise in this scenario: How [...]
In this video, we examine two articles highlighted on our site. The first article, written by Larry Swedroe, examines the Value and Momentum performance over the past two years ( highlighting great research by the [...]
The dramatic underperformance of the value premium since 2018, among the largest drawdowns in history, has led many to question its existence. It is certainly possible that what economists call a “regime change” could cause [...]
The Use and Value of Financial Advice for Retirement Planning W.V. Arlow, K.C. Brown, and S.E. JenksJournal of Retirement, Winter 2020A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance [...]
Boring versus Cheap Winners
From 2017 through 2019, the Russell 1000 Growth Index returned 20.5 percent per annum, outperforming the Russell 1000 Value Index, which returned 9.7 percent, by 10.8 percentage points a year; and the Russell 2000 Growth [...]
Last week I summarized the 2019 factor performance for U.S. stocks. A natural follow-up question was the following--"what about International stocks?" A great question. So below I dig into the 2019 performance for International Factor [...]
Why Do Enterprise Multiples Predict Expected Stock Returns? Steve Crawford, Wesley Gray and Jack VogelJournal of Portfolio Management, forthcomingA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check [...]
Asset Allocation vs. Factor Allocation—Can We Build a Unified Method? Jennifer Bender, Jerry Le Sun, and Ric Thomas Journal of Portfolio Management A version of this paper can be found here Want to read our summaries [...]
A large body of evidence demonstrates that investment strategies focused on buying stocks that are cheap relative to measures of fundamental value have achieved higher long-term returns than the broad market. Motivated by such legendary [...]
When Equity Factors Drop Their Shorts David Blitz, Guido Baltussen, and Pim van Vliet Working Paper A version of this paper can be found here Want to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out [...]
And the Winner Is…A Comparison of Valuation Measures for Equity Country Allocation Adam Zaremba and Jan Jakub Szczygielski Journal of Portfolio Management A version of this paper can be found here Want to read our summaries [...]
Over the past decade academics and practitioners alike have argued that multi-factor portfolios offer significant benefits to investors looking for enhanced and more diversified solutions. Among the papers making this argument is “The Death of [...]
There has been abundant discussion regarding the utility of dividends.Here are a few examples: dividends, dividends, and more dividends…and Jon See'ds piece on buybacks, if you'd like to go down that rabbit hole. Many [...]
