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Strategies to Reduce Crash Risk in Stocks

Because equities are much riskier than high-quality bonds, the vast majority of the risk of a conventional 60 percent equity/40 percent bond portfolio is equity [...]

Pathetic Protection via Protective Puts

Pathetic Protection: the Elusive Benefits of Protective Puts Roni IsraelovJournal of Alternative Investments, Winter 2019A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic [...]

Enhancing the Performance of Momentum Strategies

In “Your Complete Guide to Factor-Based Investing,” Andy Berkin and I presented the evidence demonstrating that momentum, both cross-sectional (or relative) momentum and time-series (or [...]

Fact, Fiction, and the Size Effect

Fact, Fiction and the Size Effect Ron Alquist, Ronen Israel, And Tobias MoskowitzJournal of Portfolio Management, 2018A version of this paper can be found hereWant to [...]

Debunking myths about stock buybacks

Buyback Derangement Syndrome Clifford Asness, Todd Hazelkorn, And Scott Richardson Journal of Portfolio ManagementA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries [...]

The Curse of Popularity

We can define popularity as the condition of being admired, sought after, well-known, and/or accepted. One would think popularity is a good thing. However, when [...]

Does Leverage Explain the Investment Premium?

Research demonstrates that the investment factor has explanatory power for the cross-section of stock returns, with high-investment firms tending to underperform low-investment firms. For example, [...]

Passive Sustainable Funds

Passive Sustainable Funds: the Global Landscape Hortense Bioy and Kenneth LamontThe Journal of Index Investing, 2018A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our [...]

Is factor momentum really everywhere?

Factor Momentum Everywhere Tarun Gupta  and Bryan KellyJournal of Portfolio ManagementA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance [...]

News Sentiment and Bonds

Investing in US 10-year Yields with News Sentiment Nina Gotthelf and Matthias W. UhlJournal of Investing, Winter 2018A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read [...]

Volatility Anomalies: IVOL and Vol-of-Vol

Two of the more interesting puzzles in finance are related to volatility—stocks with greater idiosyncratic volatility (IVOL) have produced lower returns and stocks with high [...]

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