What Returns Should Investors Expect from Private Equity
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 [...]
The Truth About the Panic of 2008 (And the Botched Regulatory Response)
Ask 100 Americans what caused the 2008 financial crisis, and 99 will supply some version of the “Standard Narrative.” That is, they will say that [...]
Costs and Benefits of ESG investing
Responsible Investing: The Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) - Efficient Frontier Lasse Heje Pedersen, Shaun Fitzgibbons, and Lukasz PomorskiWorking PaperA version of this paper can [...]
Liquidity might be a better proxy for Size in equity markets
The Size Premium in Equity Markets: Where Is the Risk? Stefano Ciliberti, Emmanuel Sérié, Guillaume Simon, Yves Lempérière, and Jean-Philippe BouchaudJournal of Portfolio ManagementA version [...]
Superstar Investors
Superstar Investors Brooks, Tsuji and VillalonJournal of Investing, February 2019A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic finance papers? Check [...]
Crowded trades, asset centrality and predicting equity bubbles
Crowded Trades: Implications for Sector Rotation and Factor Timing William Kinlaw, Mark Kritzman, and David TurkingtonJournal of Portfolio ManagementA version of this paper can be [...]
A Framework for Creating Model Portfolios
Model Portfolios Basu, Gates, Karir and AngJournal of Wealth Management, Spring 2019A version of the paper can be found here Want to read our summaries [...]
Alternative Investments – A Field Manual
It's not a perfect world out there and often times alternative funds are mischaracterized, misused, and not put through a rigorous enough portfolio construction process. [...]
Quality: Independent attributes or a real factor?
What is Quality? Jason Hsu , Vitali Kalesnik , and Engin Kose Financial Analysts JournalA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our [...]
Technological Links and Predictable Returns
Technological Links and Predictable Returns Charles Lee, Stephen Sun, Rongfei Wang and Ran ZhangJournal of Financial Economics, forthcomingA version of this paper can be found hereWant [...]
The Failure of Value Investing explained
Explaining the Demise of Value Investing Baruch Lev and Anup Srivastava A version of this paper can be found hereWant to read our summaries of academic [...]
Spending Policies in a Low Return Environment
Evaluating Spending Policies in a Low Return Environment Peng Wang, Laura Chapman, Steven Peterson, and Jon SpinneyFinancial Analyst Journal, Fall 2018A version of this paper can [...]
Crisis proof your portfolio: part 2/2
The Best of Strategies for the Worst of Times: Can Portfolios Be Crisis Proofed? Campbell R. Harvey, Edward Hoyle, Sandy Rattray, Matthew Sargaison, Dan Taylor, [...]
Can We Explain the Low Volatility Anomaly?
One of the big problems for the first formal asset pricing model developed by financial economists, the CAPM, was that it predicts a positive relation [...]
Social Media, News Based Sentiment, and Market Timing
Does Social Media Trump News? The Relative Importance of Social Media and News Based Sentiment for Market Timing Stan BeckersJournal of Portfolio Management, Winter 2019A [...]
Structured Notes: The Exploitation of Retail Investors
One of the most well known and most beloved forms of literature is the fairy tale. Although most fairy tales are not about fairies, they [...]
Crisis Proof Your Portfolio: part 1/2
The Best of Strategies for the Worst of Times: Can Portfolios Be Crisis Proofed? Campbell R. Harvey, Edward Hoyle, Sandy Rattray, Matthew Sargaison, Dan Taylor, [...]
The Variance Risk Premium is Pervasive
The variance risk premium (VRP) refers to the fact that, over time, the option-implied volatility has tended to exceed the realized volatility of the same [...]
Is Time Really Money?
Risk and Investment Horizon: Is Time Really Money? Ekaterina E. Emm and Ruben C. TrevinoJournal of Investing, 2019A version of this paper can be found hereWant [...]
No Skill? Well, Active Share Won’t Save You!
Is High Active Share Always Good? Giuliano De Rossi and Gurvinder BrarThe Journal of Asset ManagementA version of this paper can be found hereWant to read [...]