In the wake of market volatility, many investors may feel a desire to change their approach and be more "nimble" or "opportunistic" in their pursuit of investment goals. In this paper, Robert Maynard, Chief Investment Officer for the Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho and Brandes...

The Brandes Institute recently revisited its Value vs. Glamour research, focusing on the relationship between the valuation difference in price-to-book ratios, and subsequent relative performance. The Institute discovered that, historically, when the difference in P/B ratios between value and...

The meltdown in liquidity in the corporate debt market in the second half of 2008, the related widening in spreads, and concerns over use (and misuse) of credit default swaps may have created both cyclical and secular opportunities for fixed income investors

The correlation of returns for various equity asset classes has been high. In addition, the range or "dispersion" of returns across asset classes - and across sectors within those asset classes - has been low. These factors have made it difficult for active managers to outperform. But dispersion...

In 1994, Josef Lakonishok, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert Vishny published a landmark study investigating the performance of value stocks relative to glamour securities in the United States over a 26-year period. Their research concluded that value stocks tended to outperform glamour stocks by wide...

The doctrine of “Stocks for the Long Run” has been the cornerstone of strategic asset allocation portfolios for many decades. The catalysts of this phenomenon were the contemporaneous onset of the 1980-2000 bull market, one of the strongest in history, and the emergence of modern financial...

There is growing consensus that Target Date Funds (TDFs) represent a "better" solution for retirement investing than traditional strategic portfolios like a 60/40 equities/bonds. While much marketing material hints at the fact that TDFs may provide a "safer" or "less risky" solution for...

This study examines the effect of options trading on the January effect in the period 1996-2009. The options market offers investors an alternative trading venue that circumvents several trading limitations in the equity market and hence enables a higher level of arbitrage activities. In a...

In “Benjamin Graham and Risk”, Brandes Institute Advisory Board member Bruce Grantier examines the similarities and differences between the modern portfolio theory concept of risk and the writings of Benjamin Graham and other prominent value investors. This article is part of an ongoing...

University professor, Vegas gambler, financial innovator, and “godfather of the quants”: Edward O. Thorp has managed to combine several careers into one. By applying his background in mathematics to the real-world challenges of gambling, Dr. Thorp devised a proven method for winning at...