Value: Don’t Call it a Comeback, it’s Been Here for Years
Value and Momentum each had back to back extreme returns (five sigma) days on Monday, September 9th and Tuesday, September 10th. The Dow Jones Thematic [...]
An Analysis of “Benjamin Graham’s Net Current Asset Values: A Performance Update”
Henry R. Oppenheimer A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic Research Insight category Introduction [...]
Can Low Vol Strategies Be Improved
My Advisor Perspective article of June 17, 2019 discussed the regime shifting nature of the low volatility anomaly—low volatility stocks have outperformed high volatility stocks, [...]
Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) and Factor Performance
A physicist, a chemist, and an economist are stranded on an island, with nothing to eat. A can of soup washes ashore. The physicist says, [...]
Value Investing & Concentration
As many investors have experienced, Value investing has underperformed for some time now. For the period following the Global Financial Crisis, Value investing (in general) [...]
Compound Your Knowledge Ep. 16: Trend-Following, Large-Cap Value, Active Mgmt
In this week's post, we discuss three papers. The first post, written by Wes, covers a deep-dive into trend-following on equities. The second post, written [...]
Large-Cap Price-to-Book Investing: What is Dead May Never Die
In the great book and series Game of Thrones, the inhabitants of the Iron Islands have a saying "What is Dead May Never Die" which [...]
Factor Investing Research On Steroids
Factor Premia and Factor Timing: A Century of Evidence Antti Ilmanen, Ronen Israel, Toby Moskowitz, Ashwin Thapar, and Franklin Wang Working paper A version of [...]
Value Factor Valuations Over Time: US and Developed
We built a simple tool recently to review so-called value spreads over time. [ref]something we've discussed in the past many times. Example here.[/ref] This tool [...]
The Cross-Section of Emerging Market Stock Returns
Matthias x. Hanauer, Jochim G. LauterbachA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic Research [...]
The Re-Death of Value, or Déjà Vu All Over?
The underperformance of value stocks over the past 10 years has received much attention from the financial media and led at least some investors to [...]
Buying Stocks Trading Above 10x Sales–A Good Idea?
Early last week, Meb Faber included me on a conversation on buying stocks trading at 10x their company's revenue (sales). Is this a good idea [...]
Deep Dive into the Value Factor
The financial equivalent of the famous Miller Lite, “tastes great, less filling” debate is the debate between traditional financial economics which uses risk theories to [...]
A Remarkable New Factor: The Cash Conversion Cycle
The Cash Conversion Cycle Spread Baolian WangJFE, forthcoming.A version of this paper can be found here.Old discussions here and here. h.t. M. Mauboussin What are the [...]
Factor Investing in Practice
Factor Investing from Concept to Implementation Eduard van Gelderen, Joop Huij, and Georgi KyosevWorking paperA version of this paper can be found here[ref]hat tip to Art [...]
How Risky are the Value and Size Premiums? Part 2/2 of Volatility Lessons
Volatility Lessons Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French Financial Analysts Journal A version of this paper can be found here Want to read our summaries [...]
Size and Value in China
Size and Value in China Jianan Liu, Rob Stambaugh, and Yu Yuan Journal of Financial Economics A version of this paper can be found here What [...]
EBITDA, EBITDA, EBITDA…that’s all, folks!
Value investing practitioners and academics have long studied the enterprise multiple effect, including my own business partners, Jack and Wes. The literature reveals that Enterprise [...]
Value, Momentum & Carry Across Asset Classes
There is a 72% probability of the San Franciso Bay Area getting hit by at least one earthquake of a magnitude of 6.7 or stronger between [...]
After a Lost Decade, Will Value Get its Groove back in 2019?
Borne in academia and raised by fund managers seeking to outperform, value style mutual funds and ETFs today hold close to $2 trillion[ref]Morningstar[/ref]. But with [...]