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White Paper
Understanding Defensive Equity
July 1, 2012
This paper analyzes the intuition behind defensive equity. We then analyze the empirical evidence, construction and performance of defensive equity portfolios, and discuss the possible explanations for its historical outperformance.
Bibliography
Defensive Equity Bibliography
May 28, 2014
We have compiled a list of books, journal articles and working papers that were helpful in developing our research around defensive equity investing.
DC Solutions Series: Defensive Equity, Part 1
June 1, 2016
In part one of this two-part series, we focus on the intuition behind defensive equity and present evidence for its efficacy as part of an effective defined contribution retirement plan.
DC Solutions Series: Defensive Equity, Part 2
February 15, 2017
In part two of this two-part series, we focus on the implementation of a defensive equity strategy within the context of a DC retirement plan.
White Paper
Are Defensive Stocks Expensive? A Closer Look at Value Spreads
November 20, 2015
Investors have been concerned about the rich valuation of defensive stocks and how that may crimp returns. Using value spreads, we analyze the relative prices of defensive stocks and discuss the difficulties in predicting style returns.
White Paper
Understanding a Tax-Aware Defensive Equity Long-Short Strategy
April 17, 2020
We describe a hypothetical Tax-Aware Defensive Equity Long-Short strategy, including its construction and pre-tax and after-tax performance. The strategy closely replicates the pre-tax performance of a similar hypothetical tax-agnostic strategy and has the potential to achieve a meaningful tax benefit for a taxable investor.
Defensive Equity Investing
Defensive Equity is an investment strategy that seeks to provide returns similar to equity markets, but with less risk. Explore our series of papers on the topic to learn more.
Working Paper
Time-Varying Leverage Demand and Predictability of Betting-Against-Beta
June 13, 2018
We test the predictability of betting-against-beta (BAB) strategies and find that they perform better when past market returns have been high.
Journal Article
How Do Factor Premia Vary Over Time? A Century of Evidence
July 2, 2019
We examine four prominent factor premia – value, momentum, carry, and defensive – over a century from six asset classes. The results offer support for time-varying risk premia models with important implications for theory seeking to explain the sources of factor returns.
Journal Article
Betting Against Beta
January 1, 2014
A basic premise of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) is that all agents invest in the portfolio with the highest Sharpe ratio, or expected excess return per unit of risk, and leverage or de-leverage this portfolio to suit their risk preferences. However, many investors — such as individuals, pension funds and mutual funds — are constrained in the leverage that they can take, and therefore overweight risky securities instead.