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Research Insight - Tracking the Earnings Yield Factor
Oct 13, 2014
Earnings yield - typically defined as the inverse of the price-to-earnings ratio - is viewed as a strong value signal. In this paper, we provide examples of portfolios that track the Earnings Yield factor return from the Barra US Equity Model (USE4). We examine different sets of constraints - including long-only, turnover and number of assets and leverage - to see how they affect the performance of tracking portfolios.
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