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Webinar
Superstar Investors Webinar Replay Now Available
December 13, 2016
There has been little empirical analysis to explain the performance of "superstar" investors Warren Buffett, Bill Gross, George Soros and Peter Lynch. In this webinar, we examine their track records from a factor perspective.
Perspective
Quibble Fight!
December 3, 2015
Cliff takes a look at some of the observations from Arnott et. al., including the idea that prominent factors in modern systematic investing are more effective within small-cap stocks than large-cap, and the impact of controling for quality.
Perspective
The Small-Firm Effect Is Real, and It's Spectacular
January 23, 2015
Many have questioned whether size matters. In our research, we resurrect the size effect and find that it matters as much as such stalwarts as value and momentum.
Perspective
Quant Cassandra
July 2, 2019
If all of us, as investors, can persevere, we believe the long-term benefits are great. But even knowing all this in advance doesn’t make it easy. Hopefully, this reminder of what we all knew sixteen long months ago is helpful.
Perspective
Smart Beta: Not New, Not Beta, Still Awesome
September 10, 2014
Cliff Asness argues that the term “smart beta” (including “Fundamental Indexing”) is just a new way to describe some well-known and well-tested (yet still valuable) investment ideas.
Perspective
A Fanatic is One Who Can't Change his Mind and Won't Change the Subject¹
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.
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
My Factor Philippic
June 22, 2016
Cliff critiques Arnott, et. al. (2016) and emprically shows why one should be wary of agressive factor timing. Instead, investors should identify factors they believe in, and stay diversified across them, unless valuations get far more extreme
Perspective
Resisting the Siren Song of Factor Timing
April 15, 2016
It seems that now everyone wants to time factors. In his JPM editorial piece, Cliff argues that investors should resist this siren song.
Perspective
Lies, Damned Lies, and Data Mining
April 12, 2017
Data mining, finding in-sample returns that are not real, but random, is a real problem in our field, with plenty of dangers. Cliff Asness discusses the issue and the recent accusation that the industry has data mined factors