In this paper we investigate the possible benefits of integrating ESG considerations into fixed income portfolio construction. When we create portfolios ranked by a composite ESG value or by an environmental ranking we find evidence to suggest that higher ESG rankings produce an improvement in...

Equal-weighted (EW) portfolios have outperformed their value-weighted (VW) counterparts over multiple decades in various investment universes. This paper investigates the long-term evidence or the EW–VW return spread in a broad U.S. equity universe across multiple factor models....

Investors face similar macroeconomic risks and opportunities regardless of their individual investment preferences. To best navigate growth and inflation concerns, we propose building macro factor-mimicking portfolios diversified across asset classes and style factors. We focus on the macro...