We use bootstrap simulations to examine the properties of long-horizon U.S. stock market returns. Distributions of continuously compounded returns converge toward normal distributions as we extend the horizon from one to 30 years, and distributions of dollar payoffs converge toward lognormal. We...

A five-factor model that adds profitability (RMW) and investment (CMA) factors to the three-factor model of Fama and French (1993) suggests a shared story for several average-return anomalies. Specifically, positive exposures to RMW and CMA (returns that behave like those of the stocks of...

Preface / by John H. Cochrane and Tobias J. Moskowitz -- Introductions. My Life in Finance / Eugene F. Fama ; Things I've Learned from Gene Fama / Kenneth R. French ; Gene Fama's Impact: A Quantitative Analysis / G. William Schwert and René M. Stulz -- Efficient markets. Efficient Markets and...

Preface / by John H. Cochrane and Tobias J. Moskowitz -- Introductions. My Life in Finance / Eugene F. Fama ; Things I've Learned from Gene Fama / Kenneth R. French ; Gene Fama's Impact: A Quantitative Analysis / G. William Schwert and René M. Stulz -- Efficient markets. Efficient Markets and...