Meb Faber Podcast: Trust The Process (Jack Vogel)
Here is a link to our podcast on "The Meb Faber Podcast": This year, we’re bringing you the entire volume of The Best Investment Writing [...]
Fama French Factors and ESG: The Good Minus Bad Factor
Integrating ESG in Portfolio Construction Roy Henriksson, Joshua Livnat, Patrick Pfeifer, and Margaret StumppJournal of Portfolio ManagementA version of this paper can be found hereWant to [...]
Does Leverage Explain the Investment Premium?
Research demonstrates that the investment factor has explanatory power for the cross-section of stock returns, with high-investment firms tending to underperform low-investment firms. For example, [...]
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 [...]
Compound Your Knowledge Ep. 15: Factor Momentum, Value, & Equity Comp
In this week's post, I discuss three papers. The first paper, summarized by Tommi and written by Tarun Gupta and Bryan Kelly (AQR), examines the [...]
Passive Sustainable Funds
Passive Sustainable Funds: the Global Landscape Hortense Bioy and Kenneth LamontThe Journal of Index Investing, 2018A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our [...]
Equity Compensation Planning in a TCJA World
Employee equity & stock options are a major part of the modern compensation plan. That's certainly the case for my financial planning clients. Unfortunately, a [...]
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 [...]
DIY Asset Allocation Weights: June 2019
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 [...]
Is factor momentum really everywhere?
Factor Momentum Everywhere Tarun Gupta and Bryan KellyJournal of Portfolio ManagementA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance [...]
Compound Your Knowledge Ep. 14: Sentiment and Bonds, Volatility, & ESG
In this week's video, we examine four articles. The first article, written by Elisabetta, examines a trading strategy on bonds (duration) using news sentiment. The [...]
News Sentiment and Bonds
Investing in US 10-year Yields with News Sentiment Nina Gotthelf and Matthias W. UhlJournal of Investing, Winter 2018A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read [...]
Volatility Targeting Improves Risk-Adjusted Returns
There’s a large body of research, including the 2017 study “Tail Risk Mitigation with Managed Volatility Strategies” by Anna Dreyer and Stefan Hubrich, that demonstrates [...]
Compound Your Knowledge Ep. 13: Opp. Zone Investments, Hiring Losers, & Short Selling w/Insider Buying
In this week's video, we examine three articles. The first article, written by Adam Tkaczuk, covers a method to make an opportunity zone (equity) investment behave [...]
Volatility Anomalies: IVOL and Vol-of-Vol
Two of the more interesting puzzles in finance are related to volatility—stocks with greater idiosyncratic volatility (IVOL) have produced lower returns and stocks with high [...]
Things to Consider for ESG Portfolio Construction
A Guide to ESG Portfolio Construction Michael Branch, Lisa R. Goldberg and Pete HandJournal of Portfolio ManagementA version of this paper can be found hereWant to [...]
Structuring Lower Risk Opportunity Zone Investments
The tax benefits of the new Opportunity Zone program are potentially phenomenal. However, when you dig into the details of the program you quickly realize [...]
The Folly of Hiring Winners and Firing Losers
One of the mistakes that prevent investors from achieving their goals is that when it comes to evaluating investments and investment strategies most think that [...]
Compound Your Knowledge Ep. 12: Tax-Managed Strategies & Stocks Above 10x Sales
In this week's episode, we cover two articles. The first article, summarized by Tommi, examines the performance of tax-managed factor strategies. The second article examines [...]