the abnormal performance of defensive equity (i.e., low volatility and/or low beta strategies). While defensive strategy …High volatility and high beta stocks tilt strongly to small, unprofitable, and growth firms. These tilts explain the …

" states - following market declines and when market volatility is high - and are contemporaneous with market rebounds. We show … option-like payoffs of past losers. An implementable dynamic momentum strategy based on forecasts of momentum's mean and … variance approximately doubles the alpha and Sharpe Ratio of a static momentum strategy, and is not explained by other factors …

We selectively survey, unify and extend the literature on realized volatility of financial asset returns. Rather than … focusing exclusively on characterizing the properties of realized volatility, we progress by examining economically interesting … functions of realized volatility, namely realized betas for equity portfolios, relating them both to their underlying realized …