Asset pricing

PrevInvest: Fishing for Yield in a World of Liquidity

May 19th, 2013 | Filed under: Asset pricing, Forex, Today's Post

A new report by PrevInvest, the "Investment Outlook & Hedge Fund Strategies Insight Report," focuses on the consequences of the race to the bottom among the world's industrialized nations and their central banks, and the way this has created a lot of sloshing-around of liquidity looking for profitable channels.

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Time Flies and Statistics Lag: Thoughts on Factors

Aug 14th, 2012 | Filed under: Asset pricing, Behavioral finance, Today's Post

Clifford Asness and Andrea Frazzini show that an important detail in the way scholars go about studying factor pricing and behavioral finance is seriously flawed. The detail in question dates to an influential paper by Eugene Fama and Kenneth French, "The Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns," (1992).

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