Second Quarter (2021)

Vol. 19, No. 2, 2021 Douglas W. Blackburn and Nusret Cakici Buying profitable, undervalued stocks and shorting unprofitable, overvalued stocks yields significant return differentials in North American, Europe, Japan, and Asia. Using data from 1991 to 2016, double sorting stocks into portfolios by gross profits, a measure of profitability, and earnings yield, a measure of… Read more

Vol. 19, No. 2, 2021 Ananth Madhavan, Aleksander Sobczyk and Andrew Ang The proliferation of funds juxtaposed against the decline in individual stock listing since the mid-1990s raises questions about crowding in individual stocks or style factors. We examine these issues by characterizing the common components of funds from 2007 through 2018. A key difference… Read more

Vol. 19, No. 2, 2021 Geoffrey J. Warren The literature on whether active management adds value is examined through the prism of the proposition by Sharpe (1991) that active investing is a negative sum game after costs. Focal points include how active fund research does not directly test Sharpe’s proposition and seems inconsistent with it… Read more

Vol. 19, No. 2, 2021 Arun Muralidhar Investment managers require a consistent asset pricing model, asset allocation recommendations, and risk-adjusted performance measures (or the “three facets of investing”) to be effective in managing portfolios. Incorporating three critical realities of investing into these models (i.e., that investors have many stochastic goals, seek to delegate to skillful… Read more