Many studies have found that portfolios of low beta stocks have higher growth rates than portfolios of high beta stocks and have concluded that low beta stocks have higher growth rates than high beta stocks. Since rational investor behavior is thought to imply that additional risk is rewarded...

This article examines a theoretically-motivated measure of the "size effect" known as Market Diversity and links it to the relative returns of institutional actively managed portfolios. Market Diversity reflects how disperse or concentrated capital is across firms in the market, with changes in...