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Trend Following and Rising Rates

May 12, 2015 - Lasse H. Pedersen Brian K. Hurst Yao Hua Ooi Erik Stamelos

Can trend followers benefit from the impact of rising yields on asset class returns? We explore a simple trend-following strategy during rising rates and find that the strategy may benefit investors when markets experience gradual, persistent changes

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Understanding Managed Futures

November 1, 2010 - Brian K. Hurst Yao Hua Ooi Lasse H. Pedersen

Many investors have shied away from managed futures, perhaps due to a lack of understanding of how and why they work. This paper shows how such a strategy can be implemented. We then discuss their performance and diversification benefits historically

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Building a Better Commodities Portfolio

July 1, 2012 - Bradley Kay Ari Levine Yao Hua Ooi Lasse H. Pedersen

Rather than relying on passive indexes like the S&P GSCI and the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index, investors can potentially build a better commodities portfolio by balancing risk across sectors and targeting a steady level of volatility through time.

Working Paper

Carry Trades and Currency Crashes

November 1, 2008 - Markus K. Brunnermeier Stefan Nagel Lasse H. Pedersen

Is there a strong link between a currency carry strategy and crash risk? We find that investing in high-interest-rate currencies while borrowing in low-interest-rate currencies delivers negatively skewed returns.

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Corporate Bond Specialness

February 1, 2007 - Amrut J. Nashikkar Lasse H. Pedersen

The U.S. bond market is a well-understood source of corporate financing, but research on its cash and lending markets is limited. Using a dataset of corporate bond-lending transactions, we shed light on drivers of shorting activity and shorting costs.

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Embedded Leverage

November 1, 2012 - Andrea Frazzini Lasse H. Pedersen

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.

Journal Article

Quality Minus Junk

October 9, 2013 - Cliff Asness Andrea Frazzini Lasse H. Pedersen

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.

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Early Option Exercise: Never Say Never

March 18, 2016 - Mads Vestergaard Jensen Lasse H. Pedersen

A classic rule in financial economics: Never exercise a call option and never convert a convertible bond, except just before expiration or dividend payments. This paper shows how this rule breaks down when financial frictions are introduced.

Journal Article

Efficiently Inefficient Markets for Assets and Asset Management

September 21, 2015 - Nicolae Gârleanu Lasse H. Pedersen

We consider a model where investors can invest directly or search for an asset manager, information about assets is costly. If investors can find managers more easily, more money is allocated to active management, fees are lower, and asset prices are more efficient.