This paper compares several investment strategies designed to exploit the low-beta anomaly. Although the notion of buying low-beta stocks and selling high-beta stocks is natural, a choice is necessary with respect to the relative weighting of high-beta stocks and low-beta stocks in the...

This paper proposes a structural approach to long-horizon asset allocation. In particular, the investor draws inferences about asset returns from a vector autoregression (VAR) with economic restrictions on the intercept, slope, and covariance matrix implied by the long-run risk model of Bansal...

This paper employs contingent claims analysis to decompose the firm's systematic risk into the risk as- sociated with its assets in place and the risk arising from future growth opportunities. 5 Contingent claims analysis is well-suited to such decomposition, since a growth opportunity can be...