PORTFOLIO REBALANCING AND ASSET PRICING WITH HETEROGENEOUS INATTENTION

Momentum strategies tend to provide low returns during market crashes, and they crash themselves when the market rebounds after significant crashes. This is reflected by positive downside market betas and negative upside market betas of zero-cost momentum portfolios. Such asymmetry in upside and downside risks is unfavorable for investors and requires a risk premium. It arises mechanically because of momentum portfolio rebalancing based on trailing asset performance. The asymmetry in upside and downside risks is a robust unifying feature of momentum portfolios in various geographical and asset markets. The momentum premium can be rationalized within a standard asset-pricing framework, where upside and downside risks are priced differently.

Download Full-text

Asset Pricing for Dynamic Economies

10.1017/cbo9780511753909 ◽

2008 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Sumru Altug ◽

Pamela Labadie

Keyword(s):

Asset Pricing ◽

Dynamic Economies

Download Full-text

Freedom Indices and Capital Asset Pricing Model: Some Malaysian Evidence

International Journal of Management, Finance and Accounting ◽

10.33093/ijomfa.2020.1.1.1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 1-21

Author(s):

Ying Tay Lee ◽

Devinaga Rasiah ◽

Ming Ming Lai

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Asset Pricing ◽

Stock Returns ◽

Firm Size ◽

Explanatory Power ◽

Least Square ◽

Press Freedom ◽

Capital Asset Pricing ◽

Capital Asset ◽

Cross Sectional

Human rights and fundamental freedoms such as economic, political, and press freedoms vary widely from country to country. It creates opportunity and risk in investment decisions. Thus, this study is carried out to examine if the explanatory power of the model for capital asset pricing could be improved when these human rights movement indices are included in the model. The sample for this study comprises of 495 stocks listed in Bursa Malaysia, covering the sampling period from 2003 to 2013. The model applied in this study employed the pooled ordinary least square regression estimation. In addition, the robustness of the model is tested by using firm size as a controlled variable. The findings show that market beta as well as the economic and press freedom indices could explain the cross-sectional stock returns of the Malaysian stock market. By controlling the firm size, it adds marginally to the explanation of the extended CAP model which incorporated economic, political, and press freedom indices.

Download Full-text

Machine Learning Asset Pricing Factors in an Emerging Stock Market

Journal of Accounting and Finance ◽

10.33423/jaf.v20i5.3193 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (5) ◽

Keyword(s):

Machine Learning ◽

Asset Pricing ◽

Stock Market ◽

Pricing Factors

Download Full-text

Risk Factors of Collateralized Loan Obligations and Corporate Bonds

Zeitschrift für Bankrecht und Bankwirtschaft ◽

10.15375/zbb-2020-0604 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 32 (6) ◽

pp. 347-355

Author(s):

Mark Wahrenburg ◽

Andreas Barth ◽

Mohammad Izadi ◽

Anas Rahhal

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Risk Factor ◽

Asset Pricing ◽

Systemic Risk ◽

Corporate Bonds ◽

Risk Exposure ◽

Expected Returns ◽

Yield Spreads ◽

Pricing Factors ◽

Return Difference

AbstractStructured products like collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) tend to offer significantly higher yield spreads than corporate bonds (CBs) with the same rating. At the same time, empirical evidence does not indicate that this higher yield is reduced by higher default losses of CLOs. The evidence thus suggests that CLOs offer higher expected returns compared to CB with similar credit risk. This study aims to analyze whether this return difference is captured by asset pricing factors. We show that market risk is the predominant risk factor for both CBs and CLOs. CLO investors, however, additionally demand a premium for their risk exposure towards systemic risk. This premium is inversely related to the rating class of the CLO.

Download Full-text