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When doing research on investing behavior, controlling for exposure to size, value, and momentum will reduce the effect of alpha.
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True. Since alpha is considered the excess return attributable to a manager's skill, controlling for it will reduce the role of that skill. Over the past few decades, that has raised the bar for being a truly skilled manager.
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Factor investing includes the study of _______.
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All of the above. These factors and a few more are studied in factor investing.
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Once researchers identify an investment strategy that replicates alpha, what will happen to that alpha?
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It will become beta. What was once considered alpha will become beta (or perhaps some other factor) once it is replicated by a known strategy.
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Style investing is a kind of factor investing that deals with _______.
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Two factors -- size (large-small) and value (value-growth).
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What is a factor?
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An attribute of an asset that both explains and produces excess return. An attribute of an asset that both explains and produces excess return.