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Open AccessThe Volatility Effect in China
This paper shows that low-risk stocks significantly outperform high-risk stocks in the local China A-share market. The main driver of this low-risk anomaly is volatility, and not beta. A Fama–French style VOL ...
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Equity Solvency Capital Requirements - What Institutional Regulation Can Learn from Private Investor Regulation
Solvency II has one standard equity solvency capital requirement for type 1 or developed market stocks (39 per cent) and one for type 2 or emerging market stocks (49 per cent). As such, differences in financia...
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An anatomy of calendar effects
This article studies the interaction and profitability of the five most well-established calendar effects: the Halloween effect, January effect, turn-of-the-month (TOM) effect, weekend effect and holiday effec...
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Dynamic strategic asset allocation: Risk and return across the business cycle
We propose a practical investment framework for dynamic asset allocation across different phases in the business cycle, which we illustrate using a sample of US data from 1948 to 2007. We identify four phases ...
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Market portfolio efficiency and value stocks
In this journal, Best, Best, and Yoder (2000) recently demonstrated that portfolios of U.S. value stocks dominate portfolios of U.S. growth stocks in terms of second-order stochastic dominance (SSD). We cannot...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Portfolio Return Characteristics of Different Industries
Over the last decade we have witnessed the rise and fall of the so-called new economy stocks. One central question is to what extent these new firms differ from traditional firms. Empirical evidence suggests t...