- Filter By.
-
Topic (${ Topics.length })
-
-
Type (${ ContentTypes.length })
-
Contributor (${ Contributors.length })
- Relevance
- Newest
- Oldest
Journal Article
Contrarian Factor Timing is Deceptively Difficult
March 7, 2017
The increasing popularity of factor investing has led to valuation concerns among some contrarian-minded investors and fears of imminent mean-reversion and underperformance.
Journal Article
The Role of Shorting, Firm Size and Time on Market Anomalies
May 1, 2013
The pervasiveness, robustness and magnitude of return premia associated with size, value and momentum has made them the focal point for discussions of market efficiency, etc.
Journal Article
Fact, Fiction and Value Investing
November 5, 2015
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
Craftsmanship Alpha: An Application to Style Investing
December 31, 2017
What may seem like inconsequential design decisions can actually matter a lot for style portfolios. In fact, the skillful targeting and capturing of style premia may constitute a form of alpha on its own—one we refer to as “craftsmanship alpha.”
Journal Article
Investing with Style
January 2, 2015
Investors are bombarded with a variety of investment strategies and alternatives from an ever-growing and increasingly complex financial industry, each claiming to improve returns and reduce risk.
Journal Article
Fact, Fiction, and the Size Effect
May 14, 2018
Despite its long and illustrious history, much confusion about the size effect remains. We examine common claims about the size effect and seek to clarify some of the misunderstanding surrounding it.
Journal Article
Understanding Style Premia
December 8, 2014
Four investment “styles" have emerged as compelling sources of alternative returns, backed by economic theory and decades of data across geographies and asset groups.
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.
Working Paper
Investing with Style in Corporate Bonds
March 11, 2015
We identify four key style measures (carry, defensive, momentum and value) that explain some of the cross-sectional variation in corporate bond excess returns.
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.