Adlai Fisher from University of British Columbia is giving a VGSF research seminar on "Conditional Risk, Overconditioning, and the Performance of Momentum Strategies" on September 7, Friday, from 15:30 to 17:00, at HS 3, BWZ, Bruennerstrasse 72, A-1210 Vienna. See the VGSF webpage (Activities & Events--> Research Seminars) for a map of the location, and the paper to be presented.
The abstract of the paper is attached below.
Best,
Youchang
Abstract:
Recent empirical studies evaluate the performance of investment strategies using contemporaneously measured loadings to proxy for conditional risk. We demonstrate that such procedures lead to potentially large biases in alpha when payoffs are nonlinear. We combine lagged portfolio and component realized betas with standard instruments to improve performance analysis, and .nd that conditioning information reduces momentum alphas by 20-40% relative to unconditional estimates. Overconditioned alphas are up to 2:5 times larger than appropriately conditioned measures.