This is the first study to investigate the profitability of Barroso and Santa-Clara's (2015) risk-managing approach for … George and Hwang's (2004) 52-week high momentum strategy in an industrial portfolio setting. The findings indicate that risk …-managing adds value as the Sharpe ratio increases, and the downside risk decreases notably. Even after controlling for the spread of …

degree of pessimism of the representative agent is the mean of the individual ones weighted by their index of absolute risk …

exposure to systematic mispricing can bias tests of risk-return tradeoffs. Controlling for systematic mispricing, we recover … robust positive risk-return relations for many cross-sectional risk proxies, including low-risk and distress anomalies. We … arising from empirical failures of standard pricing models, and show empirical risk-return relations supporting rational …

when the markets offer high returns. ECINF is not only a priced risk factor, but the most significant factor in our asset … pricing tests, which suggests that ignoring the risk of information asymmetry may give rise to false discoveries of anomalies …. As a case in point, we show that momentum anomalies disappear once we control for the risk of information asymmetry. This …

risk measures for portfolios with infrequently traded securities have not been explored in the literature. We propose a … methodology to calculate market risk measures based on the Kalman filter which can be used on incomplete datasets. We implement … applied to other markets with thinly traded securities. Our methodology provides reliable market risk measures in portfolios …