Many advisors struggle to get clients to focus on long-term investing and ignore the constant short-term noise spewed by the media. This paper provides a series of easily understood tables and figures that should help clients realize why financial advisors must use appropriate time horizons when...

The slope of the portfolio return and consumption growth cospectrum contains predictive information about future real economic activity, future recession probabilities, the risk aversion coefficient, as well as future expected returns. Commonly used economic variables do not subsume the...

In this study we consider two methods of returns based style analysis for classification of investment styles for a single asset class, US Diversified Equity Funds. We extend Sharpe's (1992) style Returns Based Style Analysis (RBSA) by forming style groups using cluster analysis and RBSA...

In this paper we investigate the risk-adjusted performance of US sector portfolios and sector rotation strategy using the alphas from the Fama-French five factor model. We find that five-factor model fits better the returns of US sector portfolios than the three factor model, but that...

This study documents that contrarian investment strategies offer superior returns because these strategies exploit investors' expectation errors. The underlying source of these expectation errors may be due to biases on analysts' earnings forecasts. We found both positive earnings surprises and...

In this paper we investigate the risk-adjusted performance of US sector portfolios and sector rotation strategy using the alphas from the Fama-French five factor model. We find that five factor model fits better the returns of US sector portfolios than the three factor model, but that...

Sénéchal proposes a new analytical framework—the empirical law of active management—to assess the breadth, or diversification, and the skill of a portfolio manager. The framework requires no assumptions regarding a manager’s asset return expectations or investment process. The framework...

Using data from Morningstar, we analyze holdings turnover and its relationship to gross returns within the main equity categories of actively-managed US-domiciled mutual funds from 1991 to 2020.We find turnover to be highly positive skewed and also highly persistent across years. However, we...

A significant part of the development in pension provision in many countries is the emergence of ‘Target Date Funds' or TDFs. In this paper we examine the proposition of de-risking through life and the guidance offered by TDFs in the decumulation phase following retirement. We investigate the...

Purpose - The present research aims to examine a range of momentum trading strategies for the tourism and hospitality sector. Design/methodology/approach - The paper followed the methodology of Jegadeesh and Titman (1993) to construct the portfolios. In this methodology, all portfolios were...