Value Investing

Beliefs Regarding Fundamental Value and Optimal Investing

We derive optimal portfolio weights for an investor who has specific beliefs regarding the distribution of a stock price at a future time. For example, a fundamental investor will want to take advantage of the information his analysis provides when constructing a portfolio. In this regard, we examine the optimal weights for models in which the investor believes that there is a range in which th...

Value Investing: Bridging Theory and Practice

Value investing refers to the buying or selling of stocks on the basis of a perceived gap between their current market price and their fundamental value – commonly defined as the present value of the expected future payoffs to shareholders. This style of investing is predicated upon two observations about publicly listed companies and their stock prices: (1) a share of stock is merely a fractio...

Investing in Value: A Perspective on Digital Preservation

Crowds on Wall Street: Extracting Value from Social Investing Platforms

For decades, the world of financial advisors has been dominated by large investment banks such as Goldman Sachs. In recent years, user-contributed investment services such as SeekingAlpha and StockTwits have grown to millions of users. In this paper, we seek to understand the quality and impact of content on social investment platforms, by empirically analyzing complete datasets of SeekingAlpha...

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 ...