Blitz, David; Hanauer, Matthias X.; van Vliet, Pim - In: Journal of Asset Management 22 (2021) 5, pp. 338-349
This paper shows that low-risk stocks significantly outperform high-risk stocks in the local China A-share market. The main driver of this low-risk anomaly is volatility, and not beta. A Fama–French style VOL factor is not explained by the Fama–French–Carhart factors, and has the strongest...