Who are the value and growth investors?

S Betermier, LE Calvet, P Sodini - The Journal of Finance, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This paper investigates value and growth investing in a large administrative panel of Swedish
residents. We show that, over the life cycle, households progressively shift from growth to …

Hedging labor income risk

S Betermier, T Jansson, C Parlour, J Walden - Journal of Financial …, 2012 - Elsevier
We use a detailed panel data set of Swedish households to investigate the relation between
their labor income risk and financial investment decisions. In particular, we relate changes …

What do the portfolios of individual investors reveal about the cross-section of equity returns?

S Betermier, LE Calvet, S Knüpfer… - Available at SSRN …, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
We extract a parsimonious set of equity factors from comprehensive administrative data on
the stockholdings of all Norwegian individual investors in 1996-2017. A three-factor model, …

The Canadian pension fund model: a quantitative portrait

AD Beath, S Betermier, C Flynn… - The Journal of Portfolio …, 2021 - jpm.pm-research.com
This article presents a quantitative portrait of the Canadian pension fund model. The
authors show that, between 2004 and 2018, Canadian pension funds outperformed their …

A supply and demand approach to equity pricing

S Betermier, LE Calvet, E Jo - 2019 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper presents a frictionless neoclassical model of financial markets in which firm sizes,
stock returns, and the pricing kernel are all endogenously determined. The model …

[HTML][HTML] Concentration in the market of authorized participants of US fixed-income exchange-traded funds

R Arora, S Betermier, G Ouellet Leblanc, A Palumbo… - 2020 - banqueducanada.ca
Nous montrons qu’un petit nombre de participants autorisés créent et rachètent activement
des parts de fonds négociés en bourse à revenu fixe cotés aux États-Unis. En 2019, trois …

How Do Retiree Health Benefit Promises Affect Municipal Financing?

S Betermier, SB Holland, S Wilkoff - Available at SSRN 4602990, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
US public sector employers have promised over $1 trillion in retiree health and other post-employment
benefits (OPEBs)–an unfunded liability of the same order of magnitude as that of …

Why Do Homeowners Invest the Bulk of Their Wealth in Their Home?

L Barras, S Betermier - Available at SSRN 2776350, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
Despite the well-known benefits of diversification, homeowners invest mostly in their home.
A common explanation for this pattern is that homeowners are constrained to fully own the …

Green Urban Development: The Impact Investment Strategy of Canadian Pension Funds

AD Beath, S Betermier, M Van Bragt, Y Liu… - … of Sustainable Real …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This paper investigates the investment strategy that large Canadian pension funds implement
in the private real estate market. Even though they manage just 6% of global pension …

Mutual fund proliferation and entry deterrence

S Betermier, D Schumacher… - The Review of Asset …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Why do so few mutual fund families launch so many funds and styles around the world? We
argue that launching numerous funds on an increasingly granular style grid allows …