1st Quarter (2023)

Vol.21, No.1, 2023 by Abdullah Alhamdan, Zachery M. Halem, Irene Hernandez, Andrew W. Lo, Manish Singh and Dennis Whyte The case for investing in fusion energy has never been greater, given increasing global energy demand, high annual carbon dioxide output, and technological limitations for wind and solar power. Nevertheless, financing for fusion companies through traditional… Read more

Vol.21, No.1, 2023 by Sanjiv R. Das and Greg Ross We develop a methodology using dynamic programming for goals-based wealth management over long horizons where portfolio rebalancing uses the standard securities and also derivative securities. A kernel density estimation approach is developed to accommodate derivative assets, solving a high-dimensional problem with fast computation. The approach… Read more

Vol.21, No.1, 2023 by Kevin Khang, Antonio Picca, Shaojun Zhang and Minzhi Zhu The last decade’s dramatic democratization of factor investing has broadened its investor base to individual investors and their advisors. This paper studies the performance of classic allocation strategies—1/N, mean–variance, and minimum-variance—from these investors’perspective. Specifically, we curate commonly available long-only factor funds, adjust… Read more

Vol.21, No.1, 2023 by Andrew Chin and Yuyu Fan We apply text-mining techniquesin earnings call transcriptsto extract meaningful features that capture management and investment community signals. Using a corpus of transcripts of earnings calls for global companies from 2010 to 2021, we create fundamentally driven features spanning document attributes, readability, and sentiment on different sections… Read more