Investing Research Articles

Does the conventional rule (inferred from 1926-1992 U.S. stocks and bonds data) that retirees can safely withdraw an inflation-adjusted 4% from their retirement accounts annually for at least 30 years hold, after accounting for market frictions? In his February 2025 paper entitled “How the 4% Rule Would Have Failed in the 1960s: Reflections on the… Keep Reading

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Would using a rolling, rather than an inception-to-date (ITD), lookback window for calibration of the Best Value and Weighted versions of the “Simple Asset Class ETF Value Strategy” (SACEVS) improve their performances? SACEVS allocates funds to 3-month Treasury bills (T-bill or Cash), iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT), iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate… Keep Reading

Can traders generate attractive returns by frontrunning orders of large funds as they predictably rebalance from past winning asset classes to past losing asset classes? In their January 2025 paper entitled “The Unintended Consequences of Rebalancing”, Campbell Harvey, Michele Mazzoleni and Alessandro Melone investigate market impacts of asset class rebalancing based on deviations from allocation… Keep Reading

What do expectations for Bitcoin supply and demand imply for the future trajectory of its price? In the January 2025 revision of their paper entitled “A Supply and Demand Framework for Bitcoin Price Forecasting”, Murray Rudd and Dennis Porter construct a supply-and-demand model to forecast Bitcoin price trajectory. Their model combines a fixed, inelastic supply… Keep Reading

Can investors get a trading edge from CME FedWatch, which tracks probabilities of changes to the Federal Funds Rate (FFR) at future FOMC meetings based on the prices of 30-day Fed Funds futures contracts? In their January 2025 paper entitled “Watching the FedWatch”, flagged by a subscriber, Stefano Bonini, Shengyu Huang and Majeed Simaan compare… Keep Reading

Below is a weekly summary of our research findings for 2/10/25 through 2/14/25. 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.

Can large language models (LLM) handle complex financial reasoning tasks that require multi-step logic, market knowledge and regulatory adherence? In his December 2024 paper entitled “Large Language Models in Finance: Reasoning”, Miquel Noguer I Alonso surveys and extends techniques for enhancing LLM reasoning capabilities. He presents detailed finance-specific coding examples, including dynamic portfolio optimization, scenario… Keep Reading

“Daily Global Investor Sentiment” discusses the risk-on/risk-off (RORO) index as a measure of global investor risk appetite, with the underlying dataset publicly available. Can investors exploit this dataset for short-term timing of investments in stocks (risk-on) and government bonds (risk-off)? To investigate, we relate future daily returns for SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) and… Keep Reading

The Inflation Forecast now incorporates actual total and core Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for January 2025. The actual total (core) inflation rate is about the same as (about the same as) forecasted.