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Journal Article
Quality Minus Junk
October 9, 2013
We show that a quality-minus-junk (QMJ) factor that goes long high-quality stocks and shorts low-quality stocks earns significant risk-adjusted returns in the U.S. and globally. Also, controlling for quality resurrects the otherwise moribund size effect.
Working Paper
How Tax Efficient Are Equity Styles?
July 1, 2011
We explore the after-tax performance, tax exposure and tax efficiency of commonly used equity-style portfolios. We focus on equity styles based on size, value, growth and momentum, well known within the cross-sectional return landscape.
Working Paper
The Power of Past Stock Returns to Explain Future Stock Returns
January 1, 1995
We find that a properly specified one-year momentum strategy has explanatory power for stock returns when used alone, when tested against size and book-to-market, and when subjected to exhaustive robustness checks.
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.
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.
White Paper
Measuring Factor Exposures: Uses and Abuses
July 15, 2017
A growing number of investors have come to view their portfolios (especially equity portfolios) as a collection of exposures to risk factors.
Working Paper
An Accounting-Based Characteristic Model for Asset Pricing
September 2, 2013
Prior research documents robust correlations between firm characteristics and future stock returns, but provides little insight on why. Our firm characteristic model provides a structure to interpret these observed correlations.
Working Paper
The August of Our Discontent
September 21, 2007
The summer of 2007 caused some turmoil in the world of quantitative investing, leading to questions about quant investing in general and specific questions about what happened in July and August. We've tried to answer some of those questions here.
Working Paper
Style Investing: Evidence From Mutual Fund Flows
March 19, 2004
The number of mutual funds in the U.S. has risen over the past decade and is so large that individual investors are unlikely able to analyze each fund in existence. How do investors choose from such a multitude of funds? We answer this question here.
Journal Article
Size Matters, If You Control Your Junk
January 22, 2015
When it comes to equity investing, size matters—and in a bigger way than once thought—but only when controlling for junk. We examine seven challenges that have been hurled at the size effect and dismantle each one by controlling for a firm's quality.