Another look at trading costs and short-term reversal profits

W De Groot, J Huij, W Zhou - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2012 - Elsevier
Several studies report that abnormal returns associated with short-term reversal investment
strategies diminish once trading costs are taken into account. We show that the impact of …

The cross-section of stock returns in frontier emerging markets

W De Groot, J Pang, L Swinkels - Journal of Empirical Finance, 2012 - Elsevier
We are the first to investigate the cross-section of stock returns in the new emerging equity
markets, the so-called frontier emerging markets. Our unique survivorship-bias free data set …

Are the Fama-French factors really compensation for distress risk?

W De Groot, J Huij - Journal of International Money and Finance, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, we revisit the question whether the Fama-French factors are manifestation of
distress risk premiums. To this end, we develop new tests specifically aimed at dissecting the …

Strategic allocation to commodity factor premiums

D Blitz, W De Groot - Available at SSRN 2265901, 2013 - papers.ssrn.com
In this study we confirm the existence of sizable momentum, carry and low-volatility factor
premiums in the commodity market, and argue that investors should consider these commodity …

Exploiting commodity momentum along the futures curves

W de Groot, D Karstanje, W Zhou - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2014 - Elsevier
This study examines novel momentum strategies in commodities futures markets that incorporate
term-structure information. We show that momentum strategies that invest in contracts …

Sustainable voting behavior of asset managers: Do they walk the walk?

W de Groot, J de Koning… - Available at SSRN …, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
We investigate asset manager characteristics that influence ESG voting patterns using a
decade of voting data with more than 20 million observations. Asset managers predominantly …

Exploiting option information in the equity market

G Baltussen, B van der Grient, W de Groot… - Financial Analysts …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Public option market information contains exploitable information for equity investors for an
investable universe of liquid large-cap stocks. Strategies based on several option measures …

Invited editorial comment: passive investing and sustainability integration are fundamentally irreconcilable investment philosophies

D Blitz, W de Groot - The Journal of Portfolio Management, 2019 - jpm.pm-research.com
One of the biggest investment trends over the past decades has been the shift from active to
passive investing. The idea behind passive investing is that active management is a zero-…

Evaluation of US training for the past 6 years at ECUREI, the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (WFUMB) Centre of Excellence, Kampala …

MG Kawooya, BB Goldberg, W De Groot, PD Matovu… - Academic radiology, 2010 - Elsevier
RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this article are: To explore the impact of
the Radiological Society of North America–sponsored “Teach the Teachers” training course …

[HTML][HTML] Incorporating uncertainty about alternative assets in strategic pension fund asset allocation

W De Groot, L Swinkels - Pensions: An International Journal, 2008 - Springer
We present an asset allocation framework for pension funds in which they can take pension
liability risk and uncertainty about future expected asset returns explicitly into account. This …