On the Performance of Volatility-Managed Portfolios Scott Cederburg, Michael S. O’Doherty, Feifei Wang, Xuemin (Sterling) YanJournal of Financial EconomicsA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check [...]
INTRODUCTION The two basic rules of asset allocation are: i) identify assets with positive expected payoffs, and ii) ensure that the assets are not too highly correlated, so that diversification benefits can be harvested. Although [...]
Zero-Revelation RegTech: Detecting Risk through Linguistic Analysis of Corporate Emails and News S.R. Das, S. Kim, B. KothariJournal of Financial Data Science, Spring 2019A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries [...]
Time-series momentum (TSMOM) historically has demonstrated abnormal excess returns. Also called trend following, it is measured by a portfolio that is long assets that have had recent positive returns and short assets that have had [...]
Introduction This project builds on research conducted by J. Piotroski, who published his paper Value Investing: The Use of Historical Financial Statement Information to Separate Winners from Losers in 2000, offering a simple yet powerful [...]
Institutional Investment Strategy and Manager Choice: A Critique Richard M. EnnisJournal of Portfolio Management A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic Research [...]
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 [...]
Investor-Stock Decoupling in Mutual Funds Miguel A. Ferreira, Massimo Massa, Pedro MatosManagement Science, forthcomingA version of this paper can be found here.Want to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic Research Insight category What [...]
We at ENJINE are big believers in the potential of machine learning (or as some call, “artificial intelligence”) to transform asset management. However, it’s fair to say that machine learning hasn’t received mass adoption in [...]
Intangible Capital and the Value Factor: Has Your Value Definition Just Expired? Noël Amenc, Felix Goltz, and Ben LuytenJournal of Portfolio ManagementA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic [...]
The price momentum and accruals (the difference between accounting earnings and cash flows—adjustments made for revenue that has been earned but not received, and costs that have been incurred but not paid) anomalies are two [...]
Can mutual fund stars still pick stocks?: A replication and extension of Kosowski, Timmermann, Wermers, and White (2006) Timothy Riley and Sam WaltonCritical Review of Finance, 2019A version of this paper can be found hereWant to [...]
Predicting Bond Returns: 70 Years of International Evidence Guido Baltussen, Martin Martens, Olaf PenningaWorking PaperA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic Research Insight category [...]
Annuities are popular tools for retirement income planning. While stigmas exist around some annuity products (for good reason), recent research shows how fixed annuities can add value in the context of retirement income. In addition [...]
The Effects of Portfolio Construction on the Performance of Style Factor ETFs or How to Build a Style Factor ETF That Does What It Says Jason MacQueenJournal of Portfolio Management A version of this paper [...]
Arnold Polanski, Evarist Stoja, Frank WindmeijerJournal of Applied Econometrics, 2019A version of this paper can be found here.Want to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic Research Insight category What are [...]
Editor's Note: The ability of value investors to adhere to their investment strategy has been put to the greatest test ever. From January 2017 through March 2020, in terms of total returns, the Russell 3000 [...]
When More or Less is Less: Managers' Clichès J. Klevak, J. Livnat, and K. SuslavaJournal of Financial Data Science, Summer 2019A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance [...]
Digital signal processing (DSP), specifically the use of digital filters, is embedded in many indicators used by technical analysts to study and make trading decisions using time series of stock, bond, currency, commodity, and other [...]
Reducing Sequence Risk Using Trend Following and the CAPE Ratio Andrew Clare, James Seaton, Peter N. Smith, and Stephen ThomasFinancial Analysts Journal A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of [...]
