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The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns

May 1, 2007 - Lauren Cohen Andrea Frazzini Christopher J. Malloy

Information moves security prices.

Journal Article

Buffett's Alpha

November 1, 2013 - Andrea Frazzini David G. Kabiller Lasse H. Pedersen

[Winner of the CFA Institute's 2018 Graham and Dodd Award] What is the secret to Warren Buffett's success? We seek the answer via a thorough empirical analysis in light of some the latest research on the drivers of returns.

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Economic Links and Predictable Returns

August 1, 2008 - Lauren Cohen Andrea Frazzini

This paper provides evidence that investors often fail to consider economic links between companies when making investment decisions and this phenomenon can have a substantial effect on asset prices.

Journal Article

Size Matters, If You Control Your Junk

January 22, 2015 - Cliff Asness Andrea Frazzini Ronen Israel Tobias J. Moskowitz Lasse H. Pedersen

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.

Working Paper

Betting Against Correlation: Testing Theories of the Low-Risk Effect

February 15, 2017 - Cliff Asness Andrea Frazzini Niels Joachim Gormsen Lasse H. Pedersen

What drives the low-risk effect? We test whether it's driven by leverage constraints (and thus risk should be measured using beta) or behavioral effects (and thus risk should be measured by idiosyncratic risk).

Working Paper

Trading Costs of Asset Pricing Anomalies

December 5, 2012 - Andrea Frazzini Ronen Israel Tobias J. Moskowitz

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.

White Paper

Understanding Defensive Equity

July 1, 2012 - Andrea Frazzini Jacques A. Friedman Hoon Kim

This paper analyzes the intuition behind defensive equity. We then analyze the empirical evidence, construction and performance of defensive equity portfolios, and discuss the possible explanations for its historical outperformance.

Journal Article

Fact, Fiction and Value Investing

November 5, 2015 - Cliff Asness Andrea Frazzini Ronen Israel Tobias J. Moskowitz

Value investing has been a part of the investment lexicon for at least the better part of a century, yet confusion about it remains.

Journal Article

Deactivating Active Share

January 6, 2016 - Andrea Frazzini Jacques A. Friedman Lukasz Pomorski

The authors investigate Active Share, a measure meant to determine the level of active management in investment portfolios, and find it wanting.

Journal Article

Betting Against Beta

January 1, 2014 - Andrea Frazzini Lasse H. Pedersen

A basic premise of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) is that all agents invest in the portfolio with the highest Sharpe ratio, or expected excess return per unit of risk, and leverage or de-leverage this portfolio to suit their risk preferences. However, many investors — such as individuals, pension funds and mutual funds — are constrained in the leverage that they can take, and therefore overweight risky securities instead.