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Journal Article

A Historical Perspective on Time-Varying Expected Returns

February 8, 2017 - Antti Ilmanen

Investors naturally think about the expected returns of bonds based on their market yields, thus assuming time-varying expected returns.

Journal Article

A Note on REIT Bankruptcy and Intra-Industry Information Transfers: An Empirical Analysis

December 1, 1991 - Cliff Asness Michael Smirlock

In this article, we review the capital markets’ response to the bankruptcy of Residential Resources (Res Res), a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), less than a year after its initial public offering in 1988. We find a significant event day value decline for a broad portfolio of REITs.

Journal Article

Embracing Downside Risk

January 15, 2017 - Roni Israelov Lars N. Nielsen Daniel Villalon

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.

Alternative Thinking

The Role of Alternative Beta Premia

3Q 2012 - AQR Capital Management

Alternative beta premia—dynamic long-short strategies—offer effective diversified sources of return. To us, the most useful classifications are hedge fund strategy premia and style premia, two complementary approaches

Alternative Thinking

Ideas for a Low-Expected-Return World

1Q 2012 - AQR Capital Management

There are different ways to achieve ambitious real return targets, but we think risk-balanced diversification across well-chosen return sources is the most reliable, strategic approach.

Alternative Thinking

Good Strategies for Tough Times

3Q 2015 - AQR Capital Management

Following recent losses across global equities and concern about downside risk, we take a look at the performance of different investments during the worst quarters in recent decades for stock and bond markets.

Journal Article

Commodities for the Long Run

October 20, 2016 - Ari Levine Yao Hua Ooi Matthew P. Richardson Caroline Sasseville

This paper analyzes a novel data set of commodity futures prices between 1877-2015, allowing us to show that returns do vary significantly across business cycles but can add value to a diversified portfolio from an asset allocation perspective.

Alternative Thinking

Strategic Risk Allocation

2Q 2014 - AQR Capital Management

We believe investors should broadly diversify and risk balance as a starting point to asset allocation, but perhaps then mildly overweight assets with high Sharpe ratios or good diversification benefits if they can identify these.

Journal Article

Demystifying Managed Futures

February 1, 2013 - Brian K. Hurst Yao Hua Ooi Lasse H. Pedersen

Commodity trading advisors (CTAs) managed approximately $320 billion as of the end of the first quarter of 2012, running “managed futures” funds that invest long or short in futures contracts on a variety of commodities, such as metals, grains, cotton and other physical goods, as well as futures and forwards on equity indices, Treasury bonds and currencies.

Trade Publication

Hit 'Em Where It Hurts, ESG Investing 2.0

November 1, 2018 - Christopher Palazzolo Lukasz Pomorski Shaun Fitzgibbons

We suggest a new approach to ESG investing that we believe may be more effective in making negative investor views known to management — while at the same time potentially improving portfolio expected returns.