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Journal Article
On the Distribution of Financial Futures Price Changes
September 1, 2004
Among the victims of the October 1987 market crash were the popular and convenient assumptions of nearly continuous and normally distributed price change processes.
Journal Article
Trading Patterns and Excess Comovement of Stock Returns
September 1, 2007
In April 2000, 30 stocks were replaced in the Nikkei 225 Index.
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
Trading Costs of Asset Pricing Anomalies
December 5, 2012
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.
Working Paper
Asset Tangibility, Macroeconomic Risks and the Diversification Discount
April 3, 2014
Some research says that conglomerates trade at a discount relative to a comparable group of companies focused on single lines of business, because investors want to diversify. But we find the "diversification discount" varies, and delve into why here.
White Paper
Not Risk Parity Funds
February 7, 2018
The source of the recent market disruption may not be fully understood yet, but we can reveal what it wasn’t.
Perspective
Don't Go for the Exacta
October 27, 2015
It’s hard enough to be right. It’s much harder to be right multiple times in a row. Cliff delves into two-step bets and offer insight on when they’re a bad idea.
Perspective
A Fanatic is One Who Can't Change his Mind and Won't Change the Subject¹
July 16, 2017
Ciff Asness critiques Rob Arnott’s strong viewpoints that rising valuations are responsible for the past performance of many factors and that their current valuation levels point to their impending doom.
Perspective
High-Frequency Derangement Syndrome
February 8, 2018
Commentators are still blaming the wrong strategies for the recent market rout.
Perspective
My Factor Philippic
June 22, 2016
Cliff critiques Arnott, et. al. (2016) and emprically shows why one should be wary of agressive factor timing. Instead, investors should identify factors they believe in, and stay diversified across them, unless valuations get far more extreme