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Perspective
Is (Systematic) Value Investing Dead?
May 8, 2020
When value has underperformed for so long, it’s natural and proper that people wonder if it’s ever going to work again. To test the popular explanations for why value investing is “broken,” Cliff tweaks the value factor’s construction to remove the stocks that best fit these stories. He finds no “this time is different” explanation holds water, affirming our belief that the medium-term odds are rather dramatically on value’s side.
Perspective
The Valuesburg Address
February 27, 2020
One score and eight years ago Fama and French brought forth on this world, a new factor, conceived in either risk or behavioral effects, and dedicated to the proposition that all portfolios are not created equal. Now we are engaged in a great drawdown, testing whether investors in that factor, or any factor so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure…
Perspective
It’s Time for a Venial Value-Timing Sin
November 7, 2019
Cliff discusses how to measure whether a factor, in this case the value factor, is itself rich or cheap versus history. The answer, regardless of the approach taken in measuring cheapness, is that value is currently quite cheap compared to history.
Perspective
Never Has a Venial Sin Been Punished This Quickly and Violently!
February 19, 2020
Three months ago in “It’s Time for a Venial Value-Timing Sin,” Cliff demonstrated the value factor’s historic cheapness, suggesting it’s time to “sin a little” and modestly overweight value. While portfolio tilts are seldom promptly rewarded, it’s also rare they are instantly punished. In this piece, Cliff shows how 2020 has been the exception to the rule, as value has begun this year with its worst loss in its decade-long drawdown.
Data Set
How Do Factor Premia Vary Over Time? A Century of Evidence, Factor Data Monthly
July 31, 2020
This is the updated data set related to the paper “How Do Factor Premia Vary Over Time? A Century of Evidence,” in which we examine four prominent factor premia – value, momentum, carry, and defensive – over a century from six asset classes.
White Paper
Is (Systematic) Value Investing Dead?
March 14, 2020
Undoubtedly, many systematic approaches to value investing have suffered recently. However, we find the popular suggestion that value investing is dead to be premature. We find expectations of fundamental information have been and continue to be an important driver of security returns.
Journal Article
The Devil in HML's Details
June 1, 2013
This paper challenges the standard method for measuring “value” used in academic work on factor pricing.
Data Set
The Devil in HML's Details: Factors, Daily
June 30, 2020
We have updated and extended our data set for “The Devil in HML’s Details” (Asness and Frazzini, 2013). We include long/short HML Devil returns for the U.S. and 23 international equity markets updated monthly.
Data Set
Value and Momentum Everywhere: Portfolios, Monthly
June 30, 2020
We have updated our data set for our paper “Value and Momentum Everywhere,” in which we find consistent value and momentum return premia across eight diverse markets and asset classes, and a common factor structure among their returns.
Journal Article
Value and Momentum Everywhere
June 1, 2013
We find consistent value and momentum return premia across eight diverse markets and asset classes, and a strong common factor structure among their returns.