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Value Investing and the Role of Intangibles

Recent research, including the 2020 studies “Explaining the Recent Failure of Value Investing” and “Intangible Capital and the Value Factor: Has Your Value Definition Just [...]

Disentangling measures of carbon risk

Decarbonizing Everything Alexander Cheema-Fox, Bridget Realmuto LaPerla, George Serafeim, David Turkington, & Hui (Stacie) WangFinancial Analysts JournalA version of this paper can be found hereWant to [...]

Global Factor Performance: August 2021

The following factor performance modules have been updated on our Index website.[ref]free access for financial professionals[/ref] Standardized PerformanceFactor PerformanceFactor ExposuresFactor PremiumsFactor AttributionFactor Data Downloads

Behavioral Finance Warning: Humans Love Complexity

People systematically overlook subtractive changes Gabrielle S. Adams, Benjamin A. Converse, Andrew H. Hales & Leidy E. Klotz Nature 592, 258-161A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read [...]

DIY Asset Allocation Weights: August 2021

Do-It-Yourself tactical asset allocation weights for the Robust Asset Allocation Index are posted here. (Note: free registration required) Request a free account here if you [...]

Factor Investing and International Markets

Factors and Risk Premia in Individual International Stock Returns Geert Bekaert, Eric Engstrom and Andrey ErmolovJournal of Financial Economics, 2021A version of this paper can [...]

The Benefits of Sin Stocks

While environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing continues to gain in popularity, economic theory suggests the share prices of “sin” businesses (typically those involved in [...]

The Role of Book-to-Market in Bond Returns

My August 17, 2020, article for Advisor Perspectives, “Factor-Based Investing Beats Active Management for Bonds,” provided the evidence from a series of academic papers on [...]

The Misery Index and Future Equity Returns

Prospect theory was developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979. The theory starts with the concept of loss aversion—the observation that people react [...]

Global Factor Performance: July 2021

The following factor performance modules have been updated on our Index website.[ref]free access for financial professionals[/ref] Standardized PerformanceFactor PerformanceFactor ExposuresFactor PremiumsFactor AttributionFactor Data Downloads

The Different Types of ESG Investors

ESG as Waving Banners and as Pulling Plows Meir StatmanJournal of Portfolio Management, 2020A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries [...]

DIY Asset Allocation Weights: July 2021

Do-It-Yourself tactical asset allocation weights for the Robust Asset Allocation Index are posted here. (Note: free registration required) Request a free account here if you [...]

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