Momentum, Reversals, and Investor Clientele Andy Chui, Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, and Sheridan TitmanReview of Financial Studies, 2021A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic Research [...]
Out of Sight No More? The Effect of Fee Disclosures on 401(k) Investment Allocations Kronlund, Pool, Sialm and StefanescuJournal of Financial Economics, 2021A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of [...]
Hendrik Bessembinder contributes to the literature on the returns to public equity investment diversification benefits with his study “Wealth Creation in the US Public Stock Markets 1926-2019,” published in the April 2021 issue of The [...]
The rate of communication Huang, Hwang and LouJournal of Financial Economics, 2021A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic Research Insight category What are the [...]
Impact Investing: Killing Two Birds with One Stone? Caseau and GrolleauFinancial Analyst Journal, 2020A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic Research Insight category What [...]
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 our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic Research [...]
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 differently between potential losses and potential gains. Thus, people make [...]
Sorry for the clickbait, but Hoover Institute fellow and “Grumpy Economist" John Cochrane's answers to the seemingly benign question, "How should long-term investors form portfolios," is too important to both advisors and academics to overlook. [...]
This time is different. --John Templeton "This time is different," is a sentiment that leads many investors to stray from using data analysis in their investment decision process and more towards discretionary judgment. The logic [...]
Trust and Financial Advice Burke and HungJournal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2021A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic Research Insight category What are [...]
Extrapolative Beliefs in the Cross Section: What Can We Learn from the Crowds? Zhi Da, Xing Huang, Lawrence J. JinJournal of Financial Economics, 2020A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries [...]
Do Individual Investors Trade on Investment-related Internet Postings? Manuel Ammannt and Nic SchaubManagement Science, 2020A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic Research Insight category [...]
There are no "right" answers when it comes to financial markets. There are generally trade-offs to all decisions. For example, stocking picking can be incredible and crush every other investment approach; but stock picking can [...]
What Matters to Individual Investors? Evidence from the Horse's Mouth James Choi and Adriana RobertsonJournal of Finance, 2020A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out [...]
Among the assumptions in the first formal asset pricing model, the CAPM, is that investors are risk-averse, they maximize the expected utility of absolute wealth, and they care only about the mean and variance of [...]
In the course of some research on costs and constraints on momentum strategies, I came across a couple of dueling talks by Wesley Gray and Gary Antonacci, hosted by QuantCon NYC in 2017. During his [...]
The volume of work that has been done on insider transactions is not inconsequential, we've covered a variety of research on the topic in several blog posts just a few of which are here and [...]
There is a substantial body of evidence linking various accounting ratios to expected stock returns. One explanation of the links is that they could be explained by the accounting ratios being associated with systematic sources [...]
The collapse in interest rates, combined with historically high valuations (at least for U.S. stocks), have led many endowments, pension plans (especially those with large unfunded liabilities) and high net worth investors (such as those [...]
What is the relationship between insider trades and anomalies? Anginer, Hoberg and SeyhunA version of the paper can be found here. Want to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic Research Insight [...]