The Value Effect and Macroeconomic Risk
It has been well-documented that value stocks have provided higher expected returns than growth stocks. However, there is a great debate about the source of [...]
Academic Research Insight: Yes, Departing Outside Directors Are Aware of Fraud Before They Resign
Go Before the Whistle Blows: An Empirical Analysis of Director Turnover and Financial Fraud Yanmin Gao, Jeong-Bon Kim, Desmond Tsang, Haibin Wu Review of Accounting [...]
Predicting Stock Returns Using Firm Characteristics
A few weeks ago, we did a deep dive into the factors versus characteristics debate. One of the reasons we've brought up this debate is [...]
Academic Research Insight: The Importance of Financial Literacy
Employees Financial Literacy and Retirement Plan Behavior: A Case Study Robert Clark, Annamaria Lusardi, Olivia Mitchell Economic Inquiry, forthcoming A version of this paper can be [...]
The Tax Efficiency of Long-Short Strategies
Conventional wisdom can be defined as ideas that are so accepted that they go unquestioned. Unfortunately, conventional wisdom is often wrong. Two great examples are [...]
Academic Research Insight: Predicting Long Run Stock Returns? It’s All About the Payout.
The Long-Run Drivers of Stock Returns: Total Payouts and the Real Economy Philip U. Straehl and Roger G. Ibbotson Financial Analysts Journal A version of [...]
The Returns to Value Strategies When Valuation Spreads Are Wide (Deep Value)
The academic research has generally found valuations, such as the earnings yield (E/P) (or the CAPE 10 earnings yield) and valuation spreads, have predictive value [...]
Book Review — Market Timing with Moving Averages
Trend-following is something I've struggled with for years -- always felt like voodoo magic and data-mining. That said, I finally came around to appreciating the [...]
Academic Research Insight: Industry Herding by Short Sellers Signals that Conditions are Changing
Do short sellers exploit industry information? Zsuzsa R. Huszár, Ruth S.K. Tan, Weina Zhang Journal of Empirical Finance A version of this paper can be [...]
ESOP Attorney — How to Hire One and Why It Matters
The sequential process by which ESOP advisory teams are assembled by business owners requires that they get it right–from the start. An ESOP attorney is the linchpin in that process. Here is what you need to know.
Academic Research Insight: Beware of the Surprise Departure of Independent Directors!
Do Independent Director Departures Predict Future Bad Events? Rüdiger Fahlenbrach, Angie Low, and René M. Stulz The Review of Financial Studies A version of this [...]
Momentum and Market Anomalies
Momentum is the tendency for assets that have performed well (poorly) in the recent past to continue to perform well (poorly) in the future, at [...]
Historical Finance Fight: Ben Graham versus H.M. Gartley
Reading really old research is humbling. https://archive.org/ is an awesome place to start. One quickly recognizes that market participants were very savvy way back in the [...]
Academic Research Insight: Diverisification is Not Always a Free Lunch
What Free Lunch? The Costs of Overdiversification Shawn McKay, Robert Shapiro, Ric Thomas A version of this paper can be found here Want to read our [...]
Everyone, Even a Passive Vanguard Investor, is a Factor Investor
Much has been made of Factor Investing, and even Vanguard is launching a suite of actively-managed factor ETFs. But even now, with Vanguard offering factor [...]
Do factor portfolios survive transaction costs?
Factor investing, and the associated intellectual battles, have raged for decades in academic finance journals. However, now that factor investing has gone mainstream via ETFs, [...]
Academic Research Insight: How Women Affect Corporate Decision-Making
Shaped by their daughters: Executives, female socialization, and corporate social responsibility Henrik Cronqvist, Frank Yu A version of this paper can be found here Want to [...]
Academic Research Insight: Political Connections May Actually Increase SEC oversight
Do political connections help or hinder SEC oversight? Jonas Heese, Mozaffar Khan, Karthik Ramanna Journal of Accounting and Economics A version of this paper can be [...]
Monetary Momentum
On most mainstream finance websites, a good chunk of the stories discuss the FED and where interest rates are going. Intuitively, this makes sense: The [...]
Academic Research Insight: How to Balance Short and Long term Goals in Asset Allocation
Strategic Asset Allocation-Combining Science and Judgment to Balance Short Term and Long Term Goals Peng Wang and Jon Spinney A version of this paper can [...]