Book Review: Smart(er) Investing by Elisabetta and Tommi
It's not often I get the opportunity to write a book review for our fellow teammates and the best authors on our website -- Elisabetta [...]
Conflict of Interest and Mutual Fund Sales
Conflict of Interest in Mutual Fund Sales: What Does the Data Tell Us? Jasmin Sethi, Jake Spiegel, and Aron SzapiroJournal of Retirement, Winter 2019A version [...]
Low Volatility-Momentum Factor Investing Portfolios
INTRODUCTION Factor investing is hard and some factors make it harder than others. A value strategy results in a portfolio of stocks that exhibit temporary [...]
The predictability of crowding on factor strategy performance
The Impact of Crowding in Alternative Risk Premia Investing Nick BaltasFinancial Analysts JournalA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of [...]
Enterprise Multiples and Expected Stock Returns
Why Do Enterprise Multiples Predict Expected Stock Returns? Steve Crawford, Wesley Gray and Jack Vogel Journal of Portfolio Management, forthcoming A version of this paper [...]
Timing Low Volatility with Factor Valuations
INTRODUCTION Funds flows are frequently analyzed by investors to gauge the demand for investment strategies, but it represents a challenging exercise. Key issues are data [...]
How ESG Affects Valuation, Risk, and Performance
Foundations of ESG Investing: How ESG Affects Equity Valuation, Risk, and Performance Guido Giese, Linda-Eling Lee, Dimitris Melas, Zoltán Nagy, and Laura NishikawaJournal of Portfolio [...]
The Idiosyncratic Volatility Puzzle: Then and Now
One of the interesting puzzles in finance is that stocks with greater idiosyncratic volatility (IVOL) have produced lower returns (see an earlier post here). This [...]
Quant Tools for Private Equity and Real Assets
The Covariance Matrix of Real Assets Marielle De JongThe Journal of Portfolio Management, Fall 2018A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries [...]
Asset Allocation vs. Factor Allocation—Can We Build a Unified Method?
Asset Allocation vs. Factor Allocation—Can We Build a Unified Method? Jennifer Bender, Jerry Le Sun, and Ric ThomasJournal of Portfolio ManagementA version of this paper [...]
The market impact of rebalancing factor investing strategies
Transaction Costs of Factor-Investing Strategies Feifei Li, Tzee-Man Chow, Alex Pickard & Yadwinder GargFinancial Analysts JournalA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read [...]
Protecting the Downside of Trend When It Is Not Your Friend: Part 2/2
Protecting the Downside of Trend When It Is Not Your Friend Kun Yang, Edward Qian, and Bran BeltonJournal of Portfolio ManagementA version of this paper [...]
Improving the Performance of Deep Value Strategies
A large body of evidence demonstrates that investment strategies focused on buying stocks that are cheap relative to measures of fundamental value have achieved higher [...]
Protecting the Downside of Trend When It Is Not Your Friend : Part 1
Protecting the Downside of Trend When It Is Not Your Friend Kun Yang, Edward Qian, and Bran BeltonJournal of Portfolio ManagementA version of this paper [...]
Global Impact of Investor Home Country Bias
A large body of research demonstrates that “familiarity breeds investment.” For example, a study by Gur Huberman found that shortly after AT&T was broken up [...]
Myth-busting: Fed Actions and Stock Prices
Does the Fed Impact Stock Prices? McDonald, Puleo and Shadmani Journal of Investing, February 2019A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries [...]
Are Earnings Forecasts of Sell-side Analysts Biased?
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 [...]
Enterprise Multiples and Equity Country Allocations
And the Winner Is…A Comparison of Valuation Measures for Equity Country Allocation Adam Zaremba and Jan Jakub SzczygielskiJournal of Portfolio ManagementA version of this paper [...]
Are Value, Carry and Momentum Regime Dependent?
Over the past decade academics and practitioners alike have argued that multi-factor portfolios offer significant benefits to investors looking for enhanced and more diversified solutions. [...]
Dividends are Different
There has been abundant discussion regarding the utility of dividends.[ref]Here are a few examples: dividends, dividends, and more dividends…and Jon See'ds piece on buybacks, if [...]