Baltussen, Guido; Martens, Martin; Penninga, Olaf - 2021
We examine government bond factor premiums in a deep global sample from 1800 to 2020 spanning the major markets and … maturities. Bond factors (Value, Momentum, Low-risk) offer attractive premiums that do not decay across samples, are persistent …, as well as to bond or equity market risks. A combined multi-factor bond strategy provides the strongest risk …