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Are Stocks Real Assets? Sticky Discount Rates in Stock Markets

Local stock markets adjust sluggishly to changes in local inflation.

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Embracing Downside Risk

This paper shows that downside risk tends to be the main source of long-run returns in equities and other asset classes, and argues that long-term investors may be better off embracing downside risk in certain cases.

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Covered Calls Uncovered

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Are Defensive Stocks Expensive? A Closer Look at Value Spreads

Investors have been concerned about the rich valuation of defensive stocks and how that may crimp returns. Using value spreads, we analyze the relative prices of defensive stocks and discuss the difficulties in predicting style returns.

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Still Not Cheap: Portfolio Protection in Calm Markets

This paper investigates the relationship between option richness and volatility across 10 global equity indices.

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Working Your Tail Off: Active Strategies vs. Direct Hedging

Economic theory and empirical evidence support the idea that investors should, over the long term, be compensated for bearing risk.

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Covered Call Strategies: One Fact and Eight Myths

Call overwriting is a method of simultaneously expressing a view on a security and its volatility, and the CBOE S&P 500 BuyWrite Index (BXM) is one of many ways to get exposure to the equity and volatility risk premia.

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Chasing Your Own Tail (Risk)

The financial crisis of 2008 made investors painfully aware of tail risk. We present several approaches, when used in combination, may be effective in reducing tail risk.

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Avoiding Unintended Country Bets in Global Equity Portfolios

Country risk is a key driver of individual stock returns, especially in emerging markets. We present several approaches to constructing active global stock portfolios as failing to control for country membership in stock returns may lead to significant misallocation of risk.