Style investing

Style Investing

We study asset prices in an economy where some investors categorize risky assets into different styles and move funds among these styles depending on their relative performance. In our economy, assets in the same style comove too much, assets in different styles comove too little, and reclassifying an asset into a new style raises its correlation with that style. We also predict that style retu...

Craftsmanship Alpha: An Application to Style Investing

Cosmetic Mergers: The Effect of Style Investing on the Market for Corporate Control

We study the impact of style investing on the market for corporate control. We argue that a firm may choose to boost its market value by merging with a firm that belongs to a style that is more favored by the market. By using data on the flows in mutual funds, we construct a measure of neglectedness, which relies directly on the identification of sentiment-induced investor demand, rather than b...

Impact Investing

We show that investors derive utility from non-pecuniary characteristics of investments by studying impact funds, defined as venture or growth equity funds with dual objectives of generating financial returns and positive externalities. Impact funds earn internal rates of return that are 4.7% less than traditional VC funds in reduced form regressions. Based on estimates of a willingness to pay ...

Extreme Investing:

1 esearchers have looked into valuation effects for decades. Their research has usually focused on large capitalization stocks. Not as much research has been done on valuations in small capitalization stocks, as there is a tendency by many to associate small capitalization stocks with a growth style. Any research that has been done on small capitalization stocks was usually confined to the lowe...