The authors find a linkage between labor market conditions and future capital market returns: An increase in the unemployment rate is linked to positive excess returns in both stock and bond markets for the 24-month period following the unemployment rate announcement. Furthermore, by controlling...

Investors are displaying a fast-rising appetite for low volatility strategies, given growing academic and empirical evidence of consistent outperformance over the markets from which they are drawn. However, many existing low volatile strategies are optimized, creating biases toward smaller cap...

It is well established that stocks with lower price fluctuations tend to outperform riskier ones. This article reviews plausible explanations for the low volatility anomaly and reproduce the performance of low volatility strategies in different market environments as well as in different...

In 2009, Arnott, Li, and Sherrerd asked how a clairvoyant investor—an investor who can see the future cash flows that a company will deliver to its shareholders and an eventual resale price—would have valued individual stocks. By examining past share prices in the context of subsequent...

In this paper we present new empirical evidence on the agency based asset pricing model of Brennan (1993). We find strong evidence that in the recent period stocks whose returns covary more with the idiosyncratic component of the Samp;P500 return have significantly lower returns, holding...