Academic Research Insight: Diverisification is Not Always a Free Lunch
What Free Lunch? The Costs of Overdiversification Shawn McKay, Robert Shapiro, Ric Thomas A version of this paper can be found here Want to read our [...]
Myth Busting: Stocks Correlations and Active Investment Opportunities
Many investors, investment professionals, and pundits make comments regarding the relationship between stock correlations and opportunities for active stock pickers. For example, here is a [...]
Academic Research Insight: How Women Affect Corporate Decision-Making
Shaped by their daughters: Executives, female socialization, and corporate social responsibility Henrik Cronqvist, Frank Yu A version of this paper can be found here Want to [...]
Academic Research Insight: Political Connections May Actually Increase SEC oversight
Do political connections help or hinder SEC oversight? Jonas Heese, Mozaffar Khan, Karthik Ramanna Journal of Accounting and Economics A version of this paper can be [...]
Richard Thaler: Misbehaving His Way to a Nobel Prize!
Unless you live under a rock, you've probably heard that Professor Richard Thaler earned the recent Nobel Prize. (The University of Chicago is on fire these [...]
Academic Research Insight: How to Balance Short and Long term Goals in Asset Allocation
Strategic Asset Allocation-Combining Science and Judgment to Balance Short Term and Long Term Goals Peng Wang and Jon Spinney A version of this paper can [...]
Academic Research Insight: Being Surprised by the Unsurprising: Earnings Seasonality and Stock Returns
Are we misidentifying seasonal patterns as genuine earnings news? Tom Y. Change, Samuel M. Hartzmark, David H. Solomon, Eugene F. Soltes The Review of Financial [...]
Academic Research Insight: Sin Stocks May Earn a “Boycott” Risk Premium
Social Screens and Systematic Boycott Risk H. Arthur Luo and Ronald J. Balvers Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis A version of this paper can [...]
Factor Investing with Factor Expert Lu Zhang
Replicating Anomalies is arguably a "must-read" for anyone who thinks about factor investing and is looking to improve their understanding of the space. Lu Zhang, [...]
Academic Research Insight: Stick to the Fundamentals and Discover Your Industry Peers
Stick to the Fundamentals and Discover Your Peers Jean Overgaard Knudsen, Simon Kold and Thomas Plenborg A version of this paper can be found here Want [...]
A Potential Winner: Buying Lottery Stocks with Low Short Interest
Short Interest and Lottery Stocks Kelley Bergsma & Jitendra Tayal A version of this paper can be found here Want to read our short summaries of [...]
Academic Research Insight: Sentiment Feedback Strength Trading Strategy
Genetic programming optimization for a sentiment feedback strength based trading strategy Steve Y.Yang, Sheung Yin Kevin Mo, AnqiLiu, Andrei A.Kirilenko A version of this paper [...]
Dividend Capture Strategy: Trade Execution Matters
One area in investing that is often overlooked by investors is trade execution, which relates primarily to commissions, bid-ask spreads, and price impact. Yet sometimes [...]
Academic Research Insight: Does Social Capital payoff during times of crisis in the markets?
Title: Social Capital, Trust, and Firm Performance: The Value of Corporate Social Responsibility during the Financial Crisis Authors: Karl V. Lins, Henri Servaes, and Ane [...]
Academic Research Insight: VOLATILITY WISDOM OF SOCIAL MEDIA CROWDS
Title: VOLATILITY WISDOM OF SOCIAL MEDIA CROWDS Authors: Ahmet K. Karagozoglu and Frank J. Fabozzi Publication: Journal of Portfolio Management, Winter 2017 [...]
Assessing the Potential Market Impact of Passive, Short-volatility, and Low-volatility Strategies
The market has recently experienced record low levels of realized volatility and the VIX™ (volatility index) has fallen to historic lows. Moreover, the incredibly popular [...]
VIX and Trend-Following, the Killer Combo?
Some things in life are naturally made for each other. Some examples include the following: Peanut Butter and Jelly Starsky & Hutch Value and Momentum [...]
Machine Learning for Investors: A Primer
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. — Albert Einstein Machine learning is everywhere now, from self-driving cars to [...]
Academic Research Insight: Does Past Performance Matter in Investment Manager Selection?
Title: DOES PAST PERFORMANCE MATTER IN INVESTMENT MANAGER SELECTION? Authors: BRADFORD CORNELL, JASON HSU, and DAVID NANIGIAN Publication: JOURNAL OF PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT, SUMMER 2017 (paper ) What are [...]
Factor Timing Investigation: Interest Rates, Value Spreads, and Factor Premiums
Now that the Federal Reserve has begun the process of raising interest rates, and has announced their intention to begin to unwind their policy of [...]