We study the relative diversification potential of American Depository Receipts (ADRs) as compared to the underlying shares as well as the relative diversification potential of closed-end country funds as compared to the foreign market indexes across various economic conditions. We find that,...

Using a simulation analysis based on historical U.S. stock market returns, we assess the total tax burden (federal plus state) of active portfolio management. Our results show that taxes can erode a large portion of the profits, even for moderately intense trading strategies where the capital...

We analyze trading strategies involving triple-leveraged and inverse triple-leveraged ETF pairs by simulating daily returns over a 48 year period. Our results show that many such strategies significantly outperform the S&P 500 on a risk-adjusted basis. The Sharpe ratio appears to be maximized...