This study develops a style rotation model based on quarterly forecasts of style factor (SF) returns, across four style categories, generated using market and macroeconomic data. The prescriptions from this model are tested on a sample of US active equity mutual funds' portfolio holdings. An...

This study extends an examination of Quality investing in the US to the Australian market. Specifically, a Quality score is computed as the aggregate of eight fundamental accounting metrics. An investment strategy investing in the highest (lowest) quality stock quintile, that is, Quintile 5(1)...

This study extends an examination of Quality investing in the US (Gallagher et al., 2013) to the Australian market. Specifically, a Quality score is computed as the aggregate of eight fundamental accounting metrics. An investment strategy investing in the highest (lowest) quality stock quintile...

This study develops a style rotation model based on quarterly forecasts of style factor returns, across four style categories, generated using market and macroeconomic data. The prescriptions from this model are tested on a sample of U.S. active equity mutual funds' portfolio holdings. An annual...

This study investigates how the quality of stocks owned by mutual funds affects the performance of those funds during 2000-2009. The quality of a stock is positively related to its size, while quality is inversely related to volatility. Evidently, stocks in the lowest quality decile perform...