Download or read book Profitability and Investment Based Factor Pricing Models written by Brendan Elliot and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The level of firm investment, along with firm profitability, has been shown to be empirically powerful asset pricing factors in the US and other markets. The q-factor model of Hou, Xue, and Zhang (2014), and the 5-factor model of Fama and French (2014a), both rely on factors capturing the interrelationship of firm investment and profitability. The models struggle in relation to small, high-investing and low-profitability stocks, a characteristic that is common to Australian firms. Using a sample of Australian stocks over the sample period of 1975-2013, we show that the profitability factor is virtually non-existent, despite numerous tests and iterations of the factor. The addition of a profitability factor provides trivial explanatory power when compared to firm size and investment. We interpret these results as evidence that the investment-profitability rationale that underpins both models is incomplete. Further, we confirm the results of Fama and French (2014a), who report that the explanatory power of the HML factor is subsumed when combined with investment and profitability. Finally, we provide the setting for a comparison of the q-factor and 5-factor models. Given our findings regarding the profitability and HML factors, we report no dominant model across a range of testing assets.
Download or read book Asset Pricing Factor Models in the German Stock Market written by Julian Fischer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2021 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 1,7, University of Hannover (Institut für Finanzwirtschaft und Rohstoffmärkte), language: English, abstract: In this paper, we examine how various modern multifactor models, such as the Carhart factor model, five-factor model and its complement six-factor model by Fama and French, the q-factor model by Hou, Wue and Zhang, and the mispricing factor model by Stambaugh and Yuan perform in the German stock market. It is discernible that, depending on the application model, like factor spanning tests, different sortings, return anomalies, sector- and equity fund investigation, they often provide quite similar explanatory power, while in individual cases sometimes one and sometimes the other model performs better. The underlying factors contribute differently to the explanatory power depending on the time period. Thus, in case of doubt, the six-factor model is preferable, as it is the most versatile model. Since the establishment of the capital asset pricing model as a cornerstone of modern capital market theory in the 1960s, new investigations and studies have been built on this model on an ongoing basis. This continuously leads to extensions and modifications of the asset pricing models since then. These models can be used in various ways, for example to explain the pricing of risky financial assets under restrictive assumptions or to gain important insights into the relationship between expected return and risk of securities. These can be used in various ways, for example to explain the pricing of risky financial assets under restrictive assumptions or to gain important insights into the relationship between expected return and risk of securities. In this paper, we aim to answer the overarching research question of how modern asset pricing models perform for the German stock market. For this purpose, we first discuss the characteristics of the German stock market, followed by the milestones of the development of factor models, their empirical evidence and their factors, as well as internationally known return anomalies. In the subsequent part, five modern asset pricing models are tested in different scenarios of the German stock market, including factor spanning tests, different sortings, anomalies, sectors and in equity funds. For this purpose, various analytical methods are used and performed with the software “Stata”. Finally, the comprehensive results are summarized and concluded.
Download or read book Profitability and Investment Factors for UK Asset Pricing Models written by Eoghan Nichol and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empirical investigations of the Fama-French three-factor asset pricing model have produced decidedly mixed results, particularly outside of the US market. Two recently proposed alternative multifactor models share a common core of the addition of profitability and investment as factors, but differ in terms of implementation (Fama and French, 2014; Chen, Novy-Marx, and Zhang, 2011). Testing of these models is currently confined to the US market. In this letter we adapt and test these models for the UK and argue that the Fama-French five-factor profitability factor offers the most potential.
Download or read book The Five Factor Asset Pricing Model Tests and Profitability and Investment Premiums written by fahad Ali and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using an extensive sample of the Pakistani stock market over the 2003-2016 period, this paper is the first to evaluate and compare the performance of four most popular factor pricing models: the Fama and French three-factor model, Carhart's four-factor model, the five-factor model proposed by Fama and French, and the six-factor model that adds momentum to the five-factor model. We also test different nested models and find that the five-factor model best explains the returns of anomaly portfolios and outperforms the other models. We note that the profitability factor significantly improves the description of average returns, whereas factor spanning tests show that the value and momentum factors are redundant for the Pakistani stock market. Our results are robust to alternative factor definitions, formation of test assets, and across sub-periods.
Download or read book A Five Factor Asset Pricing Model written by Eugene F. Fama and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A five-factor model directed at capturing the size, value, profitability, and investment patterns in average stock returns performs better than the three-factor model of Fama and French (FF 1993). The five-factor model's main problem is its failure to capture the low average returns on small stocks whose returns behave like those of firms that invest a lot despite low profitability. The model's performance is not sensitive to the way its factors are defined. With the addition of profitability and investment factors, the value factor of the FF three-factor model becomes redundant for describing average returns in the sample we examine.
Download or read book Empirical Analysis of Multifactor Asset Pricing Models A Comparison of US and Japanese REITs written by Tim Perschbacher and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2021 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 1,0, , language: English, abstract: This study is concerned with an empirical analysis of asset pricing. More specifically, this paper examines whether multifactor asset pricing models are able to explain variation in REIT returns in the US and Japan. In addition to traditional multifactor models, an Alternative Four-Factor Model (AFF) was developed considering net profit margin as an additional risk factor. Thence, this paper seeks to provide valuable information for investors and fund managers regarding their indirect real estate investment selection. Using a sample period between July 1994 (US) / July 2011 (Japan) to December 2020, rigorous multiple-time-series regression is applied to calculate factor loadings for each risk factor and the corresponding alpha values of each model to evaluate their effectiveness in explaining variation and cross-section of REIT returns. Most studies on asset pricing models focus on size and value sorted portfolios as dependent variables. This paper broadens the approach with four other double sorted test portfolios to check the robustness of each single factor to explain return anomalies. Results show that market premium and size premium represent risk factors for US-REITs, whereas market premium and value premium are suitable risk factors for Japanese-REITs. The momentum factor does not capture risk and is insignificant in both markets. The study shows low correlations between traditional and REIT specific as well as between US and Japanese risk factors. This suggests that firstly risk factors are country specific and secondly that they are asset specific. Moreover, the Fama-French Three-Factor Model (FF3) clearly outperforms the CAPM, while the Carhart Four-Factor Model (CH4) marginally improves the explanatory power over the FF3. This is observed in both markets. Outcomes demonstrate that the Alternative Four-Factor Model (AAF) does not improve prediction power for returns of Japanese-REITs compared to the FF3 and CH4. On the contrary, results are ambiguous concerning US-REITs. While the additional risk factor, net profit margin, generates a negative return, the model is superior to the FF3 and CH4 in terms of explaining variation and cross-section of returns.
Download or read book The Synergy Solution written by Mark Sirower and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new M&A bible. Few actions can change the value of a company—and its competitive future—as quickly and dramatically as an acquisition. Yet most companies fail to create shareholder value from these deals, and in many cases they destroy it. It doesn't have to be this way. In The Synergy Solution, Deloitte's Mark Sirower and Jeff Weirens show acquirers how to develop and execute an M&A strategy—end to end—that not only avoids the pitfalls that so many companies fall into but also creates real, long-term shareholder value. This strategy includes how to: Become a prepared "always on" acquirer Test the investment thesis and DCF valuation of a deal Plan for a successful Announcement Day, and properly communicate synergy promises to investors and other stakeholders Realize those promised synergies through integration planning and post-close execution Manage change and build a new, combined organization Sirower and Weirens provide invaluable background to those considering M&A, laying out the issues they have to consider, how to analyze them, and how to plan and execute the deal effectively. They also show those who have already started the process of M&A how to maximize their chances of success. There's an art and a science to getting mergers and acquisitions right, and this powerful book provides the insights and strategies acquirers need to find success at every stage of an often complex and perilous process.
Download or read book Multifactor Assets Pricing Model written by Khushboo Sagar and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generous consideration has been pursued to the empirical testing of multi factor assets pricing models. However, literature provides mixed kind of evidences in the support of multi factor assets pricing model. This study reviews 20 research articles based on multi factor assets pricing model and examines 25 research papers based on the empirically testing of multi factor assets pricing model published during 2001 and 2018 to study the multi factor assets pricing model in the Indian context as well as foreign context. CAPM is a popular normative model used by researchers to explain the relationship between risk and expected return of a risky asset which was developed by Sharpe (1964) and Lintner (1965). This model takes only one risk factor which is the excess market portfolio return (Market premium). Because of poor performance of CAPM in explaining realized returns, the Fama and French three factor asset pricing model (1993) was developed. Fama and French (1993) documented the size effect and the value effect that were not included in the CAPM, generally known as CAPM anomalies. Mark M. Carhart (1997) developed the Carhart four factor model. It is an extension of the FF three factor model with one another factor i.e. momentum factor effect for asset pricing of stocks. In view of the limitations of the earlier three-factor model, Fama and French five-factor asset pricing model (2014) was developed. Fama and French (2014) came with profitability pattern and investment pattern in average stock return along with the market premium, size premium and value premium. This paper may be an expedient source of information to the academics, financial analyst and researchers to understand the asset pricing model.
Download or read book Risk Based and Factor Investing written by Emmanuel Jurczenko and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of recent articles written by leading academics and practitioners in the area of risk-based and factor investing (RBFI). The articles are intended to introduce readers to some of the latest, cutting edge research encountered by academics and professionals dealing with RBFI solutions. Together the authors detail both alternative non-return based portfolio construction techniques and investing style risk premia strategies. Each chapter deals with new methods of building strategic and tactical risk-based portfolios, constructing and combining systematic factor strategies and assessing the related rules-based investment performances. This book can assist portfolio managers, asset owners, consultants, academics and students who wish to further their understanding of the science and art of risk-based and factor investing. Contains up-to-date research from the areas of RBFI Features contributions from leading academics and practitioners in this field Features discussions of new methods of building strategic and tactical risk-based portfolios for practitioners, academics and students
Download or read book A Single Factor Consumption Based Asset Pricing Model written by Stefanos Delikouras and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We propose a single-factor asset pricing model based on an indicator function of consumption growth being less than its endogenous certainty equivalent. This certainty equivalent is derived from generalized disappointment aversion preferences, and it is located approximately one standard deviation below the conditional mean of consumption growth. Our single-factor model can explain the cross-section of expected returns for size, value, reversal, profitability, and investment portfolios at least as well as the Fama-French multi-factor models. Our results show strong empirical support for asymmetric preferences, and question the effectiveness of the smooth utility framework, which is traditionally used in consumption-based asset pricing.
Download or read book An Overview of Asset Pricing Models written by Mohamed Ismail Mohamed Riyath and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper from the year 2015 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, course: Higher National Diploma in Accountancy (HNDA), language: English, comment: The author of this text is a non-native speaker of English. Please excuse any linguistic mistakes., abstract: The term financial market describes any marketplace where lenders, i.e. those who have excess fund, and borrowers, i.e. those who need funds, meet together for an exchange of instruments such as equities, bonds, currencies and derivatives. The lenders in the financial market are called investors who buy financial instruments. The investors invest their fund to maximize their wealth. In reality investors are unable to achieve their objectives at all due to poor performance of respective stock and the market conditions when they are investing in equities. The reason could be the assets may underpriced or overpriced when making investment decisions. If the investors are priced correctly for the asset by considering all relevant factors which are affecting the value, they can enjoy normal profit by appropriately pricing the asset in an efficient market. It has always been the challenge of explaining the decision process of the investors in the stock market. In this context, the behavior of investor has a close relationship with the investment decisions and the way of enriching. The rate of return and its determinations are the major issues in Finance. The rate of return is one of fundamental criteria for allocation of resources and analysis of risk and return. Their importance can be observed in the field of corporate and personal finance when define the viability of an investment and making investment decisions. Stock returns is always be considered as the principal point when investors going to put their money in financial market. More profit have been involved in higher risk, and vice versa. Investors should take into account their decision to invest t
Download or read book Your Complete Guide to Factor Based Investing written by Andrew L. Berkin and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are hundreds of exhibits in the investment "factor zoo." Which ones are actually worth your time, and your money? Andrew L. Berkin and Larry E. Swedroe, co-authors of The Incredible Shrinking Alpha, bring you a thorough yet still jargon-free and accessible guide to applying one of today's most valuable quantitative, evidence-based approaches to outperforming the market: factor investing. Designed for savvy investors and professional advisors alike, Your Complete Guide to Factor-Based Investing: The Way Smart Money Invests Today takes you on a journey through the land of academic research and an extensive review of its 50-year quest to uncover the secret of successful investing. Along the way, Berkin and Swedroe cite and distill more than 100 academic papers on finance and introduce five unique criteria that a factor (at its most basic, a characteristic or set of characteristics common among a broad set of securities) must meet to be considered worthy of your investment. In addition to providing explanatory power to portfolio returns and delivering a premium, Swedroe and Berkin argue a factor should be persistent, pervasive, robust, investable and intuitive. By the end, you'll have learned that, within the entire "factor zoo," only certain exhibits are worth visiting and only a handful of factors are required to invest in the same manner that made Warren Buffett a legend. Your Complete Guide to Factor-Based Investing: The Way Smart Money Invests Today offers an in-depth look at the evidence practitioners use to build portfolios and how you as an investor can benefit from that knowledge, rendering it an essential resource for making the informed and prudent investment decisions necessary to help secure your financial future.
Download or read book Capital Asset Pricing Model written by 50minutes, and published by 50 Minutes. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make smart investment decisions to build a strong portfolio This book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding and implementing the capital asset pricing model, providing you with the essential information and saving time. In 50 minutes you will be able to: • Understand the uses of the capital asset pricing model and how you can apply it to your own portfolio • Analyze the components of your current portfolio and its level of efficiency to assess which assets you should retain and which you should remove • Calculate the level of risk involved in new investments so that you make the right decisions and build the most efficient portfolio possible ABOUT 50MINUTES.COM | Management & Marketing 50MINUTES.COM provides the tools to quickly understand the main theories and concepts that shape the economic world of today. Our publications are easy to use and they will save you time. They provide elements of theory and case studies, making them excellent guides to understand key concepts in just a few minutes. In fact, they are the starting point to take action and push your business to the next level.
Download or read book Digesting the Profitability and Investment Premiums written by Yizhi Wang and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper highlights the effects of short selling activity on the profitability and investment premiums. Recently, Fama and French (2015) extend their three-factor asset pricing model by adding profitability and investment factors. Using short interest as a proxy to measure the short selling activity, we find that the stocks without shorting show significant higher profitability premium, while short selling activity has no impact on the investment premium. We also provide evidence that the profitability premium is more likely than the investment premium to be associated with the sentiment-driven mispricing, and short sellers are skilled at eliminating sentiment-driven mispricing. Collectively, our results suggest that the two new Fama-French factors have different underlying attributions. While the profitability premium is more consistent with cash flow-based interpretation, the investment premium is more consistent with risk-based interpretation.
Download or read book Asset Pricing written by John H. Cochrane and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-11 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the prestigious Paul A. Samuelson Award for scholarly writing on lifelong financial security, John Cochrane's Asset Pricing now appears in a revised edition that unifies and brings the science of asset pricing up to date for advanced students and professionals. Cochrane traces the pricing of all assets back to a single idea--price equals expected discounted payoff--that captures the macro-economic risks underlying each security's value. By using a single, stochastic discount factor rather than a separate set of tricks for each asset class, Cochrane builds a unified account of modern asset pricing. He presents applications to stocks, bonds, and options. Each model--consumption based, CAPM, multifactor, term structure, and option pricing--is derived as a different specification of the discounted factor. The discount factor framework also leads to a state-space geometry for mean-variance frontiers and asset pricing models. It puts payoffs in different states of nature on the axes rather than mean and variance of return, leading to a new and conveniently linear geometrical representation of asset pricing ideas. Cochrane approaches empirical work with the Generalized Method of Moments, which studies sample average prices and discounted payoffs to determine whether price does equal expected discounted payoff. He translates between the discount factor, GMM, and state-space language and the beta, mean-variance, and regression language common in empirical work and earlier theory. The book also includes a review of recent empirical work on return predictability, value and other puzzles in the cross section, and equity premium puzzles and their resolution. Written to be a summary for academics and professionals as well as a textbook, this book condenses and advances recent scholarship in financial economics.
Download or read book Empirical Asset Pricing written by Wayne Ferson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the theory and methods of empirical asset pricing, integrating classical foundations with recent developments. This book offers a comprehensive advanced introduction to asset pricing, the study of models for the prices and returns of various securities. The focus is empirical, emphasizing how the models relate to the data. The book offers a uniquely integrated treatment, combining classical foundations with more recent developments in the literature and relating some of the material to applications in investment management. It covers the theory of empirical asset pricing, the main empirical methods, and a range of applied topics. The book introduces the theory of empirical asset pricing through three main paradigms: mean variance analysis, stochastic discount factors, and beta pricing models. It describes empirical methods, beginning with the generalized method of moments (GMM) and viewing other methods as special cases of GMM; offers a comprehensive review of fund performance evaluation; and presents selected applied topics, including a substantial chapter on predictability in asset markets that covers predicting the level of returns, volatility and higher moments, and predicting cross-sectional differences in returns. Other chapters cover production-based asset pricing, long-run risk models, the Campbell-Shiller approximation, the debate on covariance versus characteristics, and the relation of volatility to the cross-section of stock returns. An extensive reference section captures the current state of the field. The book is intended for use by graduate students in finance and economics; it can also serve as a reference for professionals.
Download or read book Factor Investing written by Emmanuel Jurczenko and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edited volume consists of a collection of original articles written by leading industry experts in the area of factor investing.The chapters introduce readers to some of the latest research developments in the area of equity and alternative investment strategies.Each chapter deals with new methods for constructing and harvesting traditional and alternative risk premia, building strategic and tactical multifactor portfolios, and assessing related systematic investment performances. This volume will be of help to portfolio managers, asset owners and consultants, as well as academics and students who want to improve their knowledge and understanding of systematic risk factor investing. A practical scope An extensive coverage and up-to-date researcch contributions Covers the topic of factor investing strategies which are increasingly popular amongst practitioners
