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Alternative Thinking
The Role of Alternative Beta Premia
3Q 2012
Alternative beta premia—dynamic long-short strategies—offer effective diversified sources of return. To us, the most useful classifications are hedge fund strategy premia and style premia, two complementary approaches
Alternative Thinking
Active and Passive Investing — The Long-Run Evidence
May 21, 2018
More careful thinking is needed to separate facts from fiction in the hotly contested debate between active and passive investing.
Alternative Thinking
Challenges of Incorporating Tactical Views
4Q 2014
Tactical timing is inherently more difficult than it seems. We explore which types of tactical views may be worth taking.
Journal Article
Common Factors in Corporate Bond and Bond Fund Returns
March 1, 2018
This paper undertakes a comprehensive analysis of cross-sectional determinants of corporate bond excess returns. We find strong evidence of positive risk-adjusted returns to measures of carry, defensive, momentum and value.
Journal Article
Overinvestment of Free Cash Flow
September 1, 2006
This paper focuses on using accounting information to better explain the relationship between free cash flow and overinvestment.
Alternative Thinking
Mapping Investable Return Sources to Macro Environments
4Q 2013
We explore the empirical relationships between investable strategies (asset classes and style premia) and macroeconomic environments. We find that style premia have meaningfully less macro exposure than do asset classes
Journal Article
Parallels Between the Cross-Sectional Predictability of Stock and Country Returns
January 1, 1997
Firm characteristics such as book-to-market ratio, market equity and one-year past return help explain the cross-section of average returns on U.S.
Alternative Thinking
Systematic vs. Discretionary
3Q 2017
Systematic and fundamental investing approaches are not opposites. Both pursue the same objective and can be fundamentally-oriented. They can use similar inputs, but in different ways, to try to improve investment performance. Neither is necessarily better than the other.
Journal Article
Craftsmanship Alpha: An Application to Style Investing
December 31, 2017
What may seem like inconsequential design decisions can actually matter a lot for style portfolios. In fact, the skillful targeting and capturing of style premia may constitute a form of alpha on its own—one we refer to as “craftsmanship alpha.”
Journal Article
Carry
November 7, 2013
An asset’s “carry” is its expected return assuming that market conditions, including its price, stay the same. We find that carry predicts returns both in the cross section and time series for a variety of different asset classes.