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 “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

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 “Conditional Volatility Targeting” by Dion Bongaerts, Xiaowei Kang, CFA, and Mathijs van Dijk, published in the Fourth Quarter 2020 issue of the Financial Analysts Journal. Summary http://www.cfainstitute.org/en/research/financial-analysts-journal/2020/conditional-volatility-targeting

A summary of “When Equity Factors Drop Their Shorts” by David Blitz, Guido Baltussen, and Pim van Vliet, published in the Fourth Quarter 2020 issue of the Financial Analysts Journal. Summary http://www.cfainstitute.org/en/research/financial-analysts-journal/2020/when-equity-factors-drop-their-shorts

A summary of “An Empirical Evaluation of Tax-Loss-Harvesting Alpha” by S.E. Chaudhuri, T.C. Burnham, and A.W. Lo, published in the Third Quarter 2020 issue of the Financial Analysts Journal. Summary http://www.cfainstitute.org/en/research/financial-analysts-journal/2020/empirical-evaluation-tax-loss-harvesting-alpha

Managing Editor of the Financial Analysts Journal Heidi Raubenheimer provides an overview of the Third Quarter issue of 2020. We continue to celebrate 75 years in research publishing with our opening article. Six research articles follow, covering retirement saving, equity defense, multifactor management, tax-loss harvesting, market share, and bitcoin.

A summary of “A Framework for Constructing Equity-Risk-Mitigation Portfolios,” by J. Baz, J. Davis, S. Sapra, N. Gillmann, and J. Tsai, published in the Third Quarter 2020 issue of the Financial Analysts Journal.

A summary of “Targeting Retirement Security with a Dynamic Asset Allocation Strategy,” by Adam Kobor, CFA, and Arun Muralidhar, published in the Third Quarter 2020 issue of the Financial Analysts Journal.

A summary of “Risk Management and Optimal Combination of Equity Market Factors,” by Roger Clarke, Harindra de Silva, CFA, and Steven Thorley, CFA, published in the Third Quarter 2020 issue of the Financial Analysts Journal.

A summary of “A New Framework for Analyzing Market Share Dynamics among Fund Families,” by Jan Jaap Hazenberg in the Third Quarter issue of the Financial Analysts Journal.

A summary of “Decentralized Efficiency? Arbitrage in Bitcoin Markets,” by Sinan Krückeberg and Peter Scholz, published in the Third Quarter 2020 issue of the Financial Analysts Journal.

A summary of “Public Sentiment and the Price of Corporate Sustainability,” by George Serafeim, published in the Second Quarter 2020 issue of the Financial Analysts Journal.

A summary of “The Equity Differential Factor in Currency Markets,” by David Turkington, CFA, and Alireza Yazdani, published in the Second Quarter 2020 issue of the Financial Analysts Journal.

A summary of “When Managers Change Their Tone, Analysts and Investors Change Their Tune,” by M. Druz, I. Petzev, A. Wagner, and R. Zeckhauser, published in the Second Quarter 2020 issue of the Financial Analysts Journal.

A summary of the article “Looking under the Hood of Active Credit Managers,” by Diogo Palhares and Scott Richardson, published in the Second Quarter 2020 issue of the Financial Analysts Journal.

We open with the first of our series celebrating 75 years of the Journal. Next “The Big Market Delusion” and four research articles: two using big data “Public Sentiment and the Price of Corporate Sustainability” followed by “When Managers Change Their Tone, Analysts and Investors Change Their Tune”; next “The Equity Differential Factor in Currency Markets “and “Looking under the Hood of Active Credit Managers.”

Antti Petajisto talks about his article “Inefficiencies in the Pricing of Exchange Traded Funds,” Graham and Dodd winner in 2017 from the Financial Analysts Journal. He found that prices of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) can deviate significantly from their net asset values (NAVs).

Andrea Frazzini talks about the article “Buffett’s Alpha,” Graham and Dodd winner in 2018 from the Financial Analysts Journal. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway returns appear to be neither luck nor magic but, rather, a reward for leveraging cheap, safe, high-quality stocks.

A summary of “Option Investor Rationality Revisited: The Role of Exercise Boundary Violations,” by Robert Battalio, Stephen Figlewski, and Robert Neal, published in the First Quarter 2020 issue of the Financial Analysts Journal.