Factor Zoo

Industry Positions in Characteristic Factors: Risk Without Return

Sorting on a characteristic buys an industry bet nobody asked for: 18 percent of a factor's variance, 0.3 percent a year. Ranking within industries removes it without estimating a …

christoph-reschenhofer
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The Theme Structure of Factor Momentum

The factor zoo's 153 long-short factors reduce to about thirteen near-uncorrelated themes. Factor momentum survives that compression, and its profits come from persistence within …

Sebastian Stöckl
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