Anomalies Enhanced: A Portfolio Rebalancing Approach

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Yufeng Han

University of North Carolina (UNC) at Charlotte - Finance

Dayong Huang

University of North Carolina (UNC) at Greensboro - Bryan School of Business & Economics

Guofu Zhou

Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School

Date Written: March 18, 2019

Abstract

Many anomalies are based on firm characteristics and are rebalanced yearly, ignoring any information during the year. In this paper, we provide dynamic trading strategies to rebalance the anomaly portfolios monthly. For eight major anomalies, we find that these dynamic trading strategies substantially enhance their economic importance, with improvements in the Fama and French (2015) five-factor risk-adjusted abnormal return ranging from 0.40% to 0.75% per month. The results are robust to a number of controls. Our findings indicate that many well known anomalies are more profitable than previously thought, yielding new challenges for their theoretical explanations.

Keywords: Anomaly, low frequency information, volatility timing, technical analysis

JEL Classification: G11, G23

Suggested Citation

Han, Yufeng and Huang, Dayong and Zhou, Guofu, Anomalies Enhanced: A Portfolio Rebalancing Approach (March 18, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2624650 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2624650

Yufeng Han

University of North Carolina (UNC) at Charlotte - Finance ( email )

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Dayong Huang

University of North Carolina (UNC) at Greensboro - Bryan School of Business & Economics ( email )

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HOME PAGE: http://sites.google.com/a/uncg.edu/dayong-huang/

Guofu Zhou (Contact Author)

Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School ( email )

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