Investing Research Articles

How can investors and fund managers best exploit premiums associated with value, momentum, profitability, investment and low volatility factors, either to generate absolute return or to beat a market benchmark? In his September 2025 paper entitled “Strategic Style Allocation: Absolute or Relative?”, Pim van Vliet examines strategic allocation across long-only, value-weighted versions of these equity… Keep Reading

Since January 2010, the ADP National Employment Report, in collaboration with the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, has published a monthly estimate of U.S. nonfarm private sector employment using actual payroll data. “The ADP National Employment Report is an independent and high-frequency view of the private-sector labor market based on the aggregated and anonymized payroll data… Keep Reading

Below is a weekly summary of our research findings for 9/29/25 through 10/3/25. These summaries give you a quick snapshot of our content the past week so that you can quickly decide what’s relevant to your investing needs. Subscribers: To receive these weekly digests via email, click here to sign up for our mailing list.

What are life lessons from one of the leading researchers in finance? In the August 2025 transcript of his interview entitled “My Life in Finance in 12 Questions”, Campbell Harvey offers the following notable points relevant investors regarding (1) most important findings and (2) interpretation of academic research:

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) each quarter estimates economic growth via changes in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and its Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE), Private Domestic Investment (PDI) and government spending components. BEA releases advance, preliminary and final data about one, two and three months after quarter ends, respectively. Do these estimates of economic… Keep Reading

Do Ethereum (ETH) and Bitcoin (BTC) exhibit a reliable lead-lag relationship? To investigate, we compute: Pearson correlations between daily ETH return and daily BTC return for relationships ranging from BTC return leads ETH return by 10 days (-10) to ETF return leads BTC return by 10 days (10). Pearson correlations between monthly ETH return and… Keep Reading

We have updated monthly allocations and performance data for the Simple Asset Class ETF Momentum Strategy (SACEMS) and the Simple Asset Class ETF Value Strategy (SACEVS). We have also updated performance data for the Combined Value-Momentum Strategy. We have updated the Trading Calendar to incorporate data for September 2025.

The home page, Simple Asset Class ETF Momentum Strategy (SACEMS) and Simple Asset Class ETF Value Strategy (SACEVS) now show preliminary positions for October 2025. SACEMS rankings probably will not change by the close, but positions 1 and 2 are somewhat close. SACEVS allocations are unlikely to change by the close.

Are the “Simple Asset Class ETF Value Strategy” (SACEVS) and the “Simple Asset Class ETF Momentum Strategy” (SACEMS) mutually diversifying. To check, based on feedback from subscribers about combinations of interest, we look at three equal-weighted (50-50) combinations of the two strategies, rebalanced monthly: 50-50 Best Value – EW Top 2: SACEVS Best Value paired with SACEMS Equally… Keep Reading

“Compendium of Live ETF Factor/Niche Premium Capture Tests” summarizes results for its eponymous title. Here we add a live test of the short-term reversal effect among U.S. stocks. Specifically, we examine the performance of the now dead Vesper U.S. Large Cap Short-Term Reversal Strategy ETF (UTRN), designed to track the performance of a portfolio of… Keep Reading