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Journal Article
Should Taxable Investors Shun Dividends?
June 13, 2019
We evaluate the tax benefit of dividend avoidance for quantitative multi-style strategies and find that dividend avoidance generally reduces implementation efficiency, thus lowering expected pre-tax returns.
Working Paper
Characteristics Are Covariances: A Unified Model of Risk and Return
October 18, 2018
We propose a new modeling approach for the cross section of returns that helps determine whether excess returns to factors are driven by compensation for risk, or an anomaly effect.
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.
Journal Article
Empirical Asset Pricing via Machine Learning
October 17, 2018
We show how the field of machine learning can be used to empirically investigate asset premia including momentum, liquidity, and volatility.
Perspective
A Fanatic is One Who Can't Change his Mind and Won't Change the Subject
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.
Journal Article
Long-Only Style Investing: Don't Just Mix, Integrate
June 30, 2016
We contrast two common approaches to long-only style investing: the “portfolio mix” and the “integrated portfolio.” Our results suggest that long-only factor or smart beta investors should consider integrating styles in portfolio construction.
Journal Article
Factor Momentum Everywhere
January 29, 2019
Can individual factors be reliably timed based on their recent performance? This study of 65 widely-studied, characteristic-based equity factors aims to find out.
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.
White Paper
Style Investing and Tax Efficiency: Building a More Tax Efficient Global Equity Portfolio for Australian Investors
May 1, 2018
We evaluate the performance of long-only style-based equity strategies after accounting for taxes. We and find that style investing can be efficiently implemented in a tax-aware manner for Australian investors.
Strategies
Our investment philosophy is based on three core principles, built on decades of research and experience.