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Book Blowout for Christmas

Our three quant finance books are up on Amazon at cost ($19.99, 2-day shipping included). If you know someone looking to improve their knowledge of [...]

Risk-Based Explanations for the Momentum Premium

Most of the literature on the momentum factor has focused on behavioral explanations, generally either investor underreaction or overreaction. For example, in his paper “Explanations [...]

Quant Job Available in Chicago

From a friend in the business -- Andrew Carter. I’m hiring for a junior position right now, based in Chicago. It’s a highly quant based [...]

How ETFs Might Affect Financial Markets

We've heard a lot of questions recently from clients and readers regarding how ETFs might affect financial markets. The short answer is "nobody knows." The [...]

See you at the ETF Conference!

Myself, Jack Vogel, and Yang Xu are at the ETF conference the next few days. See below for mugshots. Give us a shout if you are [...]

A really cool paper (and graphic) on ETFs

Zahi Ben-David has an excellent new summary paper on the state of academic research on exchange traded funds with colleagues Rabih Moussawi and Francesco Fanzoni.[ref]We focused on Zahi [...]

Evidence-Based Nutrition

Evidence matters. Consider the history of evidence about the universe. In the days of Ptolemy in 100 AD, a "geocentric" model described the universe, in [...]

Asset Pricing with–and without–garbage.

If you are into consumption-based asset pricing theory and the associated empirical attempts to reconcile the theory with the data from the realized equity premium, garbage is a [...]

DIY Asset Allocation Weights: July 2016

Do-It-Yourself tactical asset allocation weights are posted. Create a free account here if you want to access the site directly. Sign in here if you already have a [...]

DIY ASSET ALLOCATION WEIGHTS: June 2016

Do-It-Yourself tactical asset allocation weights are posted. Create a free account here if you want to access the site directly. Sign in here if you already have a [...]

DIY Asset Allocation Weights: May 2016

Do-It-Yourself tactical asset allocation weights are posted. Create a free account here if you want to access the site directly. Sign in here if you already have a [...]

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