Heidi Raubenheimer, managing editor of the Financial Analysts Journal, provides an overview of the Second Quarter issue of 2021, featuring the following articles:

“Equity Investing in the Age of Intangibles” “Identifying Hedge Fund Skill Using Peer Cohorts" “Active Trading in ETFs: The Role of High-Frequency Algorithmic Trading” "Maturity-Matched Bond Fund Performance" “Risk Mitigation of Corporate Social Performance in U.S. Class Action Lawsuits" “Retirement Income Sufficiency through Personalised Glidepaths”

This is a summary of “Enhanced Portfolio Optimization” by Lasse Heje Pedersen, Abhilash Babu, CFA, and Ari Levine, published in the Second Quarter 2021 issue of the Financial Analysts Journal.

Summary: https://www.cfainstitute.org/en/research/financial-analysts-journal/2021/enhanced-portfolio-optimization

This is a summary of “Toward ESG Alpha: Analyzing ESG Exposures through a Factor Lens” by Ananth Madhavan, Aleksander Sobczyk, and Andrew Ang, published in the First Quarter 2021 issue of the Financial Analysts Journal.

Summary: https://www.cfainstitute.org/en/research/financial-analysts-journal/2020/toward-esg-alpha

This is a summary of “Should Mutual Fund Investors Time Volatility?” by Feifei Wang, CFA, Xuemin (Sterling) Yan, and Lingling Zheng, published in the First Quarter 2021 issue of the Financial Analysts Journal.

Summary: https://www.cfainstitute.org/en/research/financial-analysts-journal/2020/should-mutual-fund-investors-time-volatility

This is a summary of “Reports of Value’s Death May Be Greatly Exaggerated,” by Robert D. Arnott, Campbell R. Harvey, Vitali Kalesnik, and Juhani T. Linnainmaa, published in the First Quarter 2021 issue of the Financial Analysts Journal.

Summary: https://www.cfainstitute.org/en/research/financial-analysts-journal/2020/reports-of-values-death-may-be-greatly-exaggerated

This is a summary of "Portfolio Choice with Path-Dependent Scenarios” by Mark P. Kritzman CFA, Ding Li Grace (TianTian) Qiu, David Turkington CFA, published in the First Quarter 2021 issue of the Financial Analysts Journal.

Summary: https://www.cfainstitute.org/en/research/financial-analysts-journal/2020/0015198X-2020-1841539

This is a summary of “Levered and Inverse Exchange-Traded Products: Blessing or Curse?” by Colby J. Pessina and Robert E. Whaley, published in the First Quarter 2021 issue of the Financial Analysts Journal.

Summary: https://www.cfainstitute.org/en/research/financial-analysts-journal/2020/levered-and-inverse-exchange-traded-products

Heidi Raubenheimer, managing editor of the Financial Analysts Journal, provides an overview of the First Quarter issue of 2021, featuring the following articles:

“Levered and Inverse Exchange-Traded Products: Blessing or Curse?” “Should Mutual Fund Investors Time Volatility?” “Reports of Value's Death May Be Greatly Exaggerated” “Toward ESG Alpha: Analyzing ESG Exposures through a Factor Lens” “Portfolio Choice with Path-Dependent Scenarios”

A summary of “Provision of Longevity Insurance Annuities” by Dale Kintzel and John A. Turner, published in the Fourth Quarter 2020 issue of the Financial Analysts Journal.

Summary https://www.cfainstitute.org/en/research/financial-analysts-journal/2020/provision-of-longevity-insurance-annuities

A summary of “Factor Exposure Variation and Mutual Fund Performance,” by Manuel Ammann, Sebastian Fischer, and Florian Weigert, published in the Fourth Quarter 2020 issue of the Financial Analysts Journal.

Summary http://www.cfainstitute.org/en/research/financial-analysts-journal/2020/factor-exposure-variation