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Factores, smart beta y bots de IA: ¿qué estás comprando realmente?

Data-Driven Investment Strategies: smart beta, factors, AI bots and goal-based investing

Lista de recursos para preparar la sesión. La primera parte reúne ocho lecturas básicas, artículos y reflexiones de profesionales de primer nivel. La segunda propone pódcast, papers y datos para orientarse en el nuevo mundo de los productos de inversión.

Parte 1 de 2

Lecturas básicas

8 recursos · aprox. 1 h 30 min

1

3 min

Plain definitions of the main factors, and an honest warning: “sharp and lengthy periods of underperformance”.

2

“Fact, Fiction, and Factor Investing”

Aghassi, Asness, Fattouche & Moskowitz (AQR) · Journal of Portfolio Management, 2023 · intro and sections 2, 8, 10

25 min

The case for factors from one of their best-known practitioners, written after value’s long drawdown.

3

“How Can ‘Smart Beta’ Go Horribly Wrong?”

Arnott, Beck, Kalesnik & West · Research Affiliates, 2016

20 min

The sceptic’s case, from a firm that sells smart beta: much of the recent performance came from rising valuations.

4

“Vanguard Principal Advises Against ‘Rearview Mirror Investing’”

PlanAdviser, on Vanguard’s “Joined at the Hip”, 2012

5 min

370 indices tracked by ETFs beat the US market by 10.3% a year in back-filled data, then lagged by 0.9% a year once live.

5

“In the Shadows of Giants”

Tim Edwards & Nick Didio · S&P Dow Jones Indices, 2026

10 min

The 10 largest stocks were almost 40% of the S&P 500 by mid-2025, a level not seen since the mid-1960s.

6

“The Thematic Fund Landscape in 7 Charts”

Kenneth Lamont · Morningstar, 2024

8 min

55% of thematic funds failed to survive the 15 years to mid-2024. Read it before buying the next ‘AI’ ETF.

7

10 min

What European and US regulators tell investors about AI tools and trading bots.

8

“Why You Should Be a Goals-Based Investor”

Franklin J. Parker · CFA Institute Enterprising Investor, 2020

5 min

One risk score for all your money, or one portfolio per goal?

Parte 2 de 2

Para profundizar

8 extras opcionales · pódcast, papers y datos

PODCAST

Cliff Asness from AQR: The Impact of Stories, Behaviour and Risk

Rational Reminder, Ep. 93 · 2020 · about 1 hour

Why sticking with a factor is hard, told from inside a quant fund.

PODCAST

Prof. Kenneth French: Expect the Unexpected

Rational Reminder, Ep. 100 · 2020 · about 1 hour

The co-author of the three-factor model on how noisy factor premia are.

PODCAST

Prof. Eugene Fama

Rational Reminder, Ep. 200 · 2022 · about 1 hour

Market efficiency from the source, and factors as risk premia.

ARTICLE

The Siren Song of Factor Timing

Cliff Asness · Journal of Portfolio Management · 2016

Why rotating between factors is harder than it looks.

PAPER

…and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns

Harvey, Liu & Zhu · Review of Financial Studies · 2016

The “factor zoo”: 316 factors, and why most are probably false. Technical.

PAPER

How Do Factor Premia Vary Over Time? A Century of Evidence

Ilmanen, Israel, Lee, Moskowitz & Thapar · Journal of Investment Management · 2021

The long-run evidence, including factor timing.

REPORT

Investor Risk Profiling: An Overview

Joachim Klement · CFA Institute Research Foundation · 2015

Why risk questionnaires explain so little of how investors behave.

DATA

Kenneth French Data Library

Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth

The factor data itself, free, back to 1926.

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