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This paper compares the performance of sector ETFs to their respective S&P industry GICS sector index and to their identified benchmark. We have defined sector risk exposure as the sector specific risk that cannot be eliminated via the portfolio's diversification across the given sector. We...
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Using a comprehensive sample of 164 domestic equity Smart Beta (SB) ETFs during 2003-2014 period, I analyze whether these funds beat their benchmarks by tilting their portfolios to well-known factors such as size, value, momentum, quality, beta and volatility. I then test if Smart Beta funds...
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We document economically large momentum profits when sorting ETFs on returns over the past two to four years. A value-weighted, long-short strategy based on ETF momentum delivers Carhart (1997) four-factor alphas of up to 1.20% per month. Neither cross-sectional stock momentum nor co-variation...
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performance, risk management, and flows of bond mutual funds. Measuring active share at both the issue and issuer level, the … average bond fund has an issue-level (issuer-level) active share of over 90% (60%). Funds with higher issuer-level active … share persistently earn higher alphas, which helps explain the relatively slow growth of passively managed bond funds …
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We document significant outperformance by government bond funds on important macro announcement days such as FOMC and …
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This chapter provides a perspective on the rapidly developing literature on investment performance evaluation. I use the stochastic discount factor approach to present and critique current performance measurement techniques in a unified setting. I offer a number of suggestions to improve...
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This study shows that exchange-traded fund (ETF) misvaluation — based on return differentials between ETFs and their net asset values (NAV) — comove excessively across ETFs. Excess comovements are positive (negative) and significant across ETFs in similar (distant) investment styles. Further...
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This study provides early evidence on the performance of passively-managed hedged exchange-traded funds (HETFs) introduced rather recently in late 2006. The data covers surviving HETFs in 2017 under global macro and long-short classifications. Using Fung and Hsieh's (2004) 7-factor model and...
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For the DAX index market, this paper analyses the development of return differences between exchange traded funds (ETFs) and the DAX index from the perspective of long-term investors. The newly introduced methodology provides the opportunity to continuously identify long-term costs of passively...
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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...
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