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Journal Article
Fact and Fiction About Low-Risk Investing
February 17, 2020
Low-risk investing has received a lot of attention over the past decade. An intensive academic debate has spurred, and been spurred by, the growing market for low-risk strategies. This article presents five fact and dispels five fictions about low-risk investing.
Working Paper
Trading Costs
August 23, 2018
Using live trade data from a large institutional money manager over a 19-year period, we find actual trading costs to be an order of magnitude smaller than previous studies suggest.
Journal Article
Deactivating Active Share
January 6, 2016
The authors investigate Active Share, a measure meant to determine the level of active management in investment portfolios, and find it wanting.
Journal Article
Size Matters, If You Control Your Junk
January 22, 2015
When it comes to equity investing, size matters—and in a bigger way than once thought—but only when controlling for junk. We examine seven challenges that have been hurled at the size effect and dismantle each one by controlling for a firm's quality.
Journal Article
Fact, Fiction and Momentum Investing
September 23, 2014
Momentum is the phenomenon that securities that have performed well relative to peers (winners) on average continue to outperform, and securities that have performed relatively poorly (losers) tend to continue to underperform.
Journal Article
Low-Risk Investing Without Industry Bets
August 21, 2014
The strategy of buying safe low-beta stocks while shorting (or underweighting) riskier high-beta stocks has been shown to deliver significant risk-adjusted returns.
Journal Article
Quality Minus Junk
October 9, 2013
We show that a quality-minus-junk (QMJ) factor that goes long high-quality stocks and shorts low-quality stocks earns significant risk-adjusted returns in the U.S. and globally. Also, controlling for quality resurrects the otherwise moribund size effect.
White Paper
A New Core Equity Paradigm
March 1, 2013
Combining successful investing styles to magnify their effects represents a new paradigm in active equity-portfolio management. Core Equities integrates value, momentum and profitability styles to offer a more persistent, systematic approach.
Working Paper
Trading Costs of Asset Pricing Anomalies
December 5, 2012
We examine the trading costs, net-of-cost returns and break-even fund sizes of equity strategies designed to capture several of the main asset pricing anomalies documented in the literature.
Working Paper
Embedded Leverage
November 1, 2012
Embedded leverage—the amount of market exposure per unit of committed capital—has become an important feature of financial instruments. We study embedded leverage in equity options, index options and ETFs, and how it affects the required returns.