Text-Based Factor Investing
Part 1: The End of Accounting This is the first part of a series of guest posts by Kai Wu, the CIO & Founder of Sparkline Capital. The Factor Zoo As readers of Alpha Architect’s [...]
Resurrecting the Value Premium
The dramatic underperformance of value stocks as defined by the HmL (the return on high book-to-market stocks minus the return on low book-to-market stocks) since 2017 has led many to question the existence of the [...]
Competition for Attention in the ETF Space
Competition for Attention in the ETF Space Itzhak Ben-David, Francesco Franzoni, Byungwook Kim, and Rabih MoussawiSSRN Working paperA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out [...]
Market Timing Using Aggregate Equity Allocation Signals
When it comes to predicting long-term equity returns, several well-known indicators come to mind—for example, the CAPE ratio, Tobin’s Q, and Market Cap to GDP, to name a few. Yet there is another indicator without [...]
We Should Increase Trust in Financial Services
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 [...]
Building a Better q-Factor Asset Pricing Model
Since the development of the first asset pricing model, the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), academic research has attempted to develop models that increase the explanatory power of the cross-section of stock returns. We moved [...]
Climate Change and Asset Allocation
Climate Change and Asset Allocation: A Distinction ThatMakes a Difference Brian Jacobsen, Eddie Cheng, and Wai LeeJournal of Portfolio ManagementA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? [...]
Inflation and the Value Premium
The grand experiment of combining massive fiscal and monetary stimulus at a time when the economy is already recovering strongly—the Fed’s latest forecast for 2021 GNP growth is 6.5 percent—has led many investors to begin [...]
It Starts with Freedom
A few years ago, before launching our freedom-weighted emerging markets index, I was in a coffee shop where I overheard a group of students talking at the next table. They were anxious about an upcoming [...]
Gender Gaps in Venture Capital Performance
Gender Gaps in Venture Capital Performance Gompers, Mukharlyamov, Weisburst, and XuanJournal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2020A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic [...]
Trend-Following Filters – Part 3
Introduction This is the third article in a series of three, the first two are available here and here. Those articles focus on examining from a digital signal processing (DSP) perspectiveFor background information on DSP, [...]
Estimating the Stock-Bond Correlation
The Stock-Bond Correlation Megan Czasonis, Mark Kritzman, and David TurkingtonJournal of Portfolio ManagementA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out our Academic Research Insight category [...]
Fixed Income when you’re Between a Rock and a Hard Place – Part 1/2
Figure 1: Investors are between a rock and a hard place.Source: Getty Images. Invesco. Investors are stuck between a rock and a hard place. On one hand, it is painful to buy bonds that deliver [...]
How Active Mutual Funds Use ETFs
ETF use among actively managed mutual fund portfolios D. Eli Sherrill, Sara E. Shirley, Jeffrey R. StarkJournal of Financial EconomicsA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? [...]
More on the Factor Investing Replication Debate
Open Source Cross-Sectional Asset Pricing Andrew Chen and Tom ZimmermannWorking paperA version of this paper can be found here What are the research questions? There has been a wave of articles (and press) suggesting that academic [...]
Is There a Replication Crisis in Finance?
In recent years the field of empirical finance has faced challenges from papers arguing that there is a replication crisis because the majority of studies cannot be replicated and/or their findings are the result of [...]
An Economic Framework for ESG Investing
Responsible Investing: The ESG Efficient Frontier Pedersen, Fitzgibbons, and PomorskiJournal of Financial Economics, 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 [...]
Conditional Volatility Targeting
Financial economists have long known that volatility and returns are negatively correlated. Fischer Black documented this in his 1976 paper “Studies of Stock Price Volatility Changes.” This relationship results in the tendency to produce negative [...]
How to Predict Stock Returns (using a simple model)
Jack Bogle, the founder of Vanguard, created a simple explanation for predicting future stock returns. The so-called “Occam's razor” (law of parsimony) approach is an attempt to explain projected returns as simple as possible. Mr. [...]
How to Measure the Liquidity of Cryptocurrency?
How to Measure the Liquidity of Cryptocurrency? Brauneis, Mestel , Riordan and TheissenJournal of Banking and Finance, 2021A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check out [...]