We investigate the nature of cross-sectional asset pricing effects of intangibles. Intangible asset intensity relates strongly positively to stock returns and has more explanatory power than size, value, profitability, and investment. Adding an intangibles factor improves the Fama-French...

We analyze the performance of volatility targeting strategies. Conventional volatility targeting fails to consistently improve performance in global equity markets and can lead to markedly greater draw-downs. Motivated by return patterns in different volatility states, we propose a conditional...