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This is the irrational reminder podcast, a weekly reality check on sensible investing and financial decision making from two Canadians.
我是菲利克斯,首席投资官,搭档是PWL资本的投资组合经理丹·博尔托洛蒂。
We're hosted by me, Felix, chief investment officer, and Dan Bortolotti, portfolio manager at PWL Capital.
很高兴又能回来继续聊。
Good to be back for another one.
本,我觉得这个话题,你可能等了一辈子,就盼着今天能这么系统地讲一讲因子投资。
This is a topic I think, Ben, that I feel like you've waited your whole life to finally give an overview of factor investing in this way.
是的。
Yeah.
我们之前就随便聊过一阵子。
We were kind of chatting about it before.
这个话题我们谈过很多次,但真没好好深入过那篇开创了整个预期收益和资产定价思路的原始论文。
It's a topic we've talked about lots, but I don't think we've ever well, we definitely have never done sort of a deep dive into the original paper that kicked off this whole way of thinking about expected returns and asset prices.
对我来说也很有意思,因为十年前我刚开始系统了解指数投资的时候,就接触过这些内容。
It was an interesting thing for me too because I remember learning all of this a decade ago when I first got into understanding index investing at a high level.
这把指数投资提升到了一个新的层次。
And then this takes index investing to a different level.
但我之前真没这么深入地研究过,直到最近才开始仔细看。
But I hadn't really dove into it at this depth until, you know, the last little while.
所以,重新梳理一下这个话题会很有意思。
So anyway, it'll be interesting to revisit it.
十五年来,这方面的进展确实不小。
It's come a long way in fifteen years for sure.
没错。
Definitely.
我们把这次讨论称为‘改变一切的金融论文’。
We're calling this discussion the finance paper that changed everything.
我们主要谈的是法玛和弗伦奇1993年发表在《金融经济学杂志》上的那篇论文,这篇论文如今被引用了近一万五千次,对于一篇学术论文来说,这简直不可思议——它彻底重塑了金融经济学和投资组合管理的实践。
We're really talking about Fama and French's 1993 paper in the Journal of Financial Economics, which is a paper that today has nearly 15,000 citations, which is like pretty crazy for an academic paper that changed financial economics and the practice of portfolio management.
它彻底改变了这一切。
It changed it forever.
尤金·法玛和肯·弗伦奇在1993年发现,有三个因素能解释多元化股票投资组合之间绝大部分的收益差异。
So Eugene Fama and Ken French, they found back then, back in 1993, that a group of three factors explained the vast majority of differences in returns across diversified stock portfolios.
他们论文里其实也分析了股票和债券,不过我们主要还是聚焦在股票部分。
They did actually look at both stocks and bonds in the paper, but we're mostly going to focus on on the stock analysis.
他们在论文中的发现,不仅当时影响深远,至今仍在深刻塑造着学术界和投资实践。
Their findings in that paper, they really had and continue to have sweeping implications for the academic study of and practice of investment management.
听众们应该知道,我们之前提过很多次法玛和弗伦奇。
So listeners know we mentioned Fama and French quite a bit.
他们的研究经常被提到。
Their research comes up a lot.
他们对这个领域的影响实在太大了。
They've had such a big impact on this space.
这篇论文可以说是其中一个根本性的起点。
This paper is like one of the foundational reasons.
法玛本人提出了市场有效性,而法玛和弗伦奇共同提出的多因子资产定价模型,更是整个领域的基石。
Fama obviously has market efficiency, efficient markets, but Fama and French together, multifactor asset pricing work is really foundational.
我觉得这项研究是每个投资者都该了解的,不管他们是否打算把结果用在自己的投资组合里。
I think it's research that every investor should understand whether they choose to apply its findings to their portfolios or not.
就我个人而言,这篇论文是我理解投资和构建投资组合的基石。
Personally, this paper is really the foundation of how I think about investing and building portfolios.
正是他们的研究让我发现了Dimensional,而正是这个发现,让我在大约十三四年前联系上了卡梅伦,找到了PWL资本。
Their research is what led me to find Dimensional, which is what led me to get in touch with Cameron and find PWL Capital whenever that was thirteen years ago, almost fourteen years ago.
我当时上一门公司理财课,大家在讨论资本成本到底是什么。
I was in like a corporate finance class, and we were talking about what is the cost of capital?
课堂上展开了很长一段讨论,教授维贾伊·乔格讲了CAPM模型,以及怎么用它来估算资本成本。
This whole big discussion in the class, and professor Vijay Jog talked about the CAPM and how we could find the cost of capital that way.
然后他说,最近有一些新研究提出,你可以关注其他几个因素,它们能帮你更深入地理解资本成本,以及那些可能让公司资本成本偏离CAPM预测的特征。
And then he's like, but there's some more recent research that says you can look at these other factors that might tell you a little bit more about the cost of capital and these other characteristics of companies that might change the cost of capital relative to what the CAPM would say.
这挺有意思的。
That's neat.
后来我读到罗布·卡里克的一篇文章,里面提到了法玛和弗伦奇的研究,还把它和Dimensional联系在了一起。
And then it ended up, I think reading an article by Rob Carrick that mentioned the Fama and French research and tied it to Dimensional.
我猜不用多说,这期节目肯定特别硬核。
I probably don't have to preface this by saying that this is gonna be a nerdy episode.
咱们的听众是什么样的人,大家心里都清楚。
Let's be honest with the type of listeners that we have.
也许这正是大家愿意听的原因,但我觉得这个话题真的很有价值。
That's probably why people are listening, but I think it's a discussion that's worthwhile.
我们会聊聊这篇论文的研究方法、结果、长期影响,最后还会谈谈今天的投资者该怎么轻松地应用这些发现。
So we'll cover the paper's methodology, the results, the enduring impacts, and then we do have some comments near the end about how investors today can pretty easily apply this information.
咱们开始之前,Dan,你有什么想说的吗?
Any comments before we jump in here, Dan?
挺有意思的。
It's funny.
我跟你的经历可完全不一样,我是怎么接触到PWL的。
I have a very different origin story, of course, how I found PWL.
这正是我觉得这个角度特别有意思的地方——我刚开始对投资感兴趣的时候,就是从这个方向入手的。
And this is why it's an interesting approach for me because I kinda came at it when I first started getting interested in investing.
我当时主要用的是那种很普通的博格尔式指数策略。
It was much more the sort of plain vanilla Bogle type indexing strategies.
后来我读了更多东西,才接触到拉里·斯韦德罗、里克·费里,还有其他一些人,他们主张更进一步,通过Dimensional专门做因子投资。
And it was only later when I started to do a lot more reading when I came upon people like Larry Swedroe, Rick Ferry, a number of others who are proponents of taking that a step further and exploring factor investing specifically through Dimensional.
对我来说,那是几年后的事了。
That for me came a few years later.
但这段经历确实大大加深了我对这些理念的理解——为什么它们有效,主动管理有哪些局限,所有这些都息息相关。
But definitely deepened, I think my understanding of how all of this comes together, why it works, the limitations of active management, all of those things are tied into this.
这一切其实都紧密相连。
It's all so connected.
你之前就提到过这一点。
You mentioned this earlier.
它们本质上都是同一种思路。
It's all kind of cut from the same cloth.
没错。
Yeah.
那我来接一下。
So I'll jump in here.
这篇论文的核心观点,也就是法玛和弗伦奇1993年的研究,认为有多个因素会影响资产价格和预期收益。
The fundamental premise of this paper, Fama and French's 1993 paper, is that multiple factors affect asset prices and expected returns.
这些因素能解释为什么不同类型的股票和债券,以及由此形成的不同投资组合,会有不同的预期收益和实际收益。
And that these factors can help to explain why different types of stocks and bonds and therefore different investment portfolios have different expected returns and different realized returns.
‘预期收益’这个词挺有意思的。
Expected returns a funny term.
字面上看就是它本来的意思。
It's kind of what it sounds like.
就是你投资一只股票或债券时,预期能拿到的回报。
It's the return that you expect from investing in a stock or bond.
研究预期收益通常被称为资产定价,因为这两者直接相关——资产的价格取决于它的预期收益。
The study of expected returns is often referred to as asset pricing because those two things are directly related to an asset price is based on its expected return.
而它的预期收益,其实也能从价格中推断出来。
And its expected return can be inferred from its price.
预期回报当然不是 guaranteed 的结果,但正如我们待会儿会看到的,它们确实包含信息——因为不同类型的资产,实际回报一直有系统性的差异。
Expected returns are, of course, not guaranteed outcomes, but as we will see, they do contain information and we can kind of infer that because different types of assets have had systematically different realized returns.
这些说法听起来都有点怪。
It's all kind of funny stuff.
资本资产定价模型,也就是CAPM,属于理论层面的东西。
Capital asset pricing model, CAPM is like theory.
但其他那些内容,通常被称为实证资产定价研究,因为虽然有点理论影子,但主要是从数据里总结出来的。
But the rest of the stuff, it's often called empirical asset pricing research because there's some sort of light theory, but it's really empirically derived.
你发现,小盘股的回报率就是更高。
You see, oh, small stocks have higher returns.
也许背后真有原因,但不管怎样,不同资产有不同预期回报,而且实际回报也系统性地不同,这听起来挺合理的。
Maybe there's a difference in expect anyway, the idea that different assets have different expected returns and systematically different realized returns, it kind of makes sense.
在其他条件相同的情况下,你当然愿意为更安全的资产多付钱,而不是去赌高风险的。
You'd pay more for a safer asset than a riskier one, all else equal.
大家都知道,股票比债券风险更大。
It's commonly known that stocks are riskier than bonds.
这一点大家基本都没什么异议。
That's something that I don't think anybody really disagrees on.
所以它们的预期回报率更高。
Therefore, they have higher expected returns.
不太为人熟知的是,不同类型的股票之间,预期回报率也存在系统性差异。
What's kind of less commonly understood is that different types of stocks can have systematically higher expected returns than others.
在法玛和弗伦奇最初的研究中,他们提到一些普遍存在的、无法分散的风险,这些风险让很多投资者特别敏感,从而解释了为什么有些股票回报更高。
So in Fama and French's original framing in the paper, they talk about common undiversifiable risks that a lot of investors are sensitive to that help to explain why some stocks have higher returns than others.
我之前提过,但我想再强调一下:这篇论文讨论了五个因子,因为他们同时分析了股票和固定收益类资产的因素,不过我们主要还是聚焦在他们研究的三个股票因子上。
I mentioned this earlier, but I do want to just say again that this paper talks about five different factors because they look at both equity and fixed income factors, but we're just going to talk mostly about the three equity factors that they looked at.
如果一只股票承受了更多投资者普遍敏感的某种风险,那么在其他条件相同的情况下,它就必须提供更高的预期回报,才能吸引投资者买入。
If a stock is exposed to more of a certain type of risk that a lot of investors are sensitive to, that stock must have a higher expected return to entice investors to invest in it all else equal.
当这篇论文发表时,投资者可能关注多种风险类型,这个观点其实并不新鲜。
And the idea that investors might care about multiple types of risk wasn't a new idea when this paper came out.
罗伯特·默顿和其他几位学者早就在理论上提出过类似的想法。
This is something that Robert Merton and a few other people had written about theoretically.
但找出这些风险到底是什么、该怎么衡量,这正是法玛和弗伦奇在这篇论文里提出的新观点。
But figuring out what those risks might be and how to measure them, that was a new thing that Fama and French introduced in this paper.
要理解法玛和弗伦奇这篇论文为什么影响这么大,就得先看看它之前的情况。
Now, think to understand why Fama and French's perspective in this paper was so impactful, it's important to understand what came before it.
1964年和1965年,包括比尔·夏普在内的研究人员提出了资本资产定价模型,也就是CAPM,我之前简单提过。
So in 1964 and 1965, researchers including Bill Sharp developed the Capital Asset Pricing Model or the CAPM, which I mentioned briefly earlier.
这个模型把股票的预期收益和它的价格相对于整个市场的波动联系起来,这种关系通常用市场贝塔值,简称贝塔来表示。
This model, the CAPM connected a stock's expected return to how its price moves relative to the overall market, which is something expressed as its market beta or just its beta commonly.
比如,贝塔值为1,意味着这只股票的走势基本和市场同步。
A beta of one for example means that a stock moves pretty much in lockstep with the market.
贝塔值高于1,说明市场涨的时候它涨得更多,市场跌的时候它跌得也更厉害;反过来,贝塔值低于1就相反。
A higher beta, a beta of more than one means the stock will tend to move up more when the market is up and down more when the market is down and vice versa for a beta less than one.
根据这个单一因素模型——CAPM,投资者只关心市场风险,所以贝塔值更高的股票,平均来看应该带来更高的回报。
According to this single factor model, the CAPM, where exposure to market risk is the only risk that investors care about, stocks with higher betas should on average deliver higher returns.
这正是模型所预测的。
That's what the model predicts.
当时CAPM在金融界可是个大突破。
CAPM was like it was a huge deal in finance.
正因为这个模型,比尔·夏普在1990年获得了诺贝尔经济学奖。
It was a big enough deal to win Bill Sharp the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990 for his work on it.
因为CAPM首次系统地建立了风险和预期收益之间的关系。
Because that model, the CAPM, it it formalized a relationship between risk and expected return.
而且从实证角度看,它对股票收益的解释相当准确。
And it actually did a pretty good job empirically explaining the observed returns of stocks.
但在CAPM出现之前,根本没人能说清楚:股票的预期收益到底该是多少?
But you got to think before the CAPM, there wasn't a model for like what should a stock's expected return be or what is a stock's expected return?
现在回头看,我们居然觉得这再正常不过了,挺有意思的。
It is funny how we take that for granted now.
听起来理所当然,但六十年代之前,还真没人用这种方式讲清楚,更没用数学证明过。
It seems so obvious, but I guess in the sixties, no one had ever articulated it in that way, and it demonstrated it with the math.
这跟马科维茨的资产组合理论有点像。
This is similar when we talk about Markowitz and portfolio theory.
如果你把一些不相关的资产组合在一起,就能降低风险,而不会必然降低预期收益。
It's like, if you combine uncorrelated assets into a portfolio, you reduce the risk without necessarily decreasing the expected return.
现在我们都觉得这再正常不过了,但当年刚出来的时候,这可是革命性的发现。
We all know that today, but I mean, that was revolutionary when it came out.
得往前推六十年,但所有这些概念,我觉得都是在那段时间逐渐成型的。
You have to go back 60, but all of this stuff is just really crystallizing I think around this time.
夏普是在马科维茨的基础上进一步发展的。
And Sharpe builds on Markowitz.
所以CAPM是在马科维茨投资组合理论的基础上建立的,它提出了基于市场组合的、可以检验的预测。
So CAPM really builds on Markowitz portfolio theory and it creates testable predictions that are really based on market portfolio.
这种能被检验的预测思路,其实也影响了其他很多领域。
But that idea of having testable predictions, I mean it flows into all sorts of other stuff too.
比如,你怎么评估一个主动型基金经理的表现?
Like how do you evaluate the performance of an active manager?
在CAPM出现之前,根本没一个模型能告诉你:这位经理承担了多少风险,他的收益相对于他所承担的风险来说,是不是合理。
Before the CAPM, there was no model to say, well, how much risk did they take and what were their returns relative to what we would expect based on the amount of risk that they took.
在CAPM出现之前,我们根本没个像样的模型来衡量这个。
We just didn't have a model for that before the CAPM.
后面我会提到一些有意思的研究,它们正好做了这件事。
And there's some interesting research that I'll mention in a bit that did that.
他们把CAPM用在当时的主动型共同基金上,直接问了这个问题:
They took the CAPM and they applied it to active mutual funds at the time and asked exactly that question.
基金经理的回报,真的高过他们所承担风险本该带来的预期收益吗?
Do they earn returns higher than what we would expect based on the risk they took?
再往前推一步,其实没多久以前,根本没人真正理解市场风险是什么。
To take that a step further too, mean, there was a time not all that long before this, where no one really understood what market risk was.
你得先有设计良好、容易复制的指数,才能谈得上这件事。
You had to have properly constructed, easily replicable indexes before you could do that.
我们现在觉得这些理所当然,但要是搁在本杰明·格雷厄姆那个年代,你当股票选股手,拿什么来衡量自己的表现?
We take all this stuff for granted, but if you were a stock picker in Benjamin Graham's day, what were you measuring your performance against?
根本没什么基准可言。
There was no benchmark.
在这一时期,尤其是二十世纪中期,这些概念开始被系统化,我们终于能够以前所未有的方式来评估投资和投资经理的表现。
A lot of this stuff during this period, kind of the mid century, is when all of this stuff starts to be formalized and now we can actually start evaluating the performance of investments and investment managers in a way that just wasn't possible before.
确实如此。
Totally.
这充分说明,我们现在正处在一个投资的黄金时代,所有这些理论都已经成了我们脚下的基石。
It really speaks to this idea that we are currently in this golden age of investing where all of this theory is beneath us.
我们站在一套强大理论的肩膀上,俯瞰整个市场。
Like we're sitting on top of the foundation of this powerful theory.
我们不仅清楚这些理论,还能随手拿到各种产品,把它们直接应用到投资组合里,这真的很了不起。
Not only are we aware of it, but we have products that are just at our fingertips to take that information and implement it in investment portfolios, which is pretty cool.
尽管CAPM从诞生起就定义并主导了资产定价研究,贯穿了整个七十年代和八十年代。
Even though the CAPM defined and then dominated the study of asset pricing from its inception through the 70s and the 80s.
CAPM发表后,后续的研究不断发现,某些类型的股票回报率远超CAPM所能解释的范围。
Research had consistently come out after the CAPM was published showing that certain types of stocks had higher returns than what could be explained by the CAPM.
有了这个模型之后,人们才真正开始去检验各种假设。
So once we had this model, people started testing stuff.
我是说,之前提到了主动管理的基金经理。
I mean, mentioned the active managers.
这些主动管理的基金经理所获得的回报,超过了他们所承担风险本应带来的预期收益。
The active managers generate returns in excess of what would be expected based on the risk they took.
但还有些情况,比如某种特定类型的股票。
But then there's also like, oh, look at this certain type of stock.
嘿,它的表现居然比CAPM预测的还要好。
Hey, it actually performs better than the CAPM would predict.
这挺有意思的。
That's interesting.
于是人们开始做各种类似的测试。
People started doing all kinds of those types of tests.
当时,这些观察结果无法用CAPM——也就是当时的资产定价模型——来解释,人们就把它们称为异常现象。
Now, at the time when those observations could not be explained by the CAPM, the asset pricing model at the time, they would be referred to as anomalies.
所以,资产定价异常可能意味着两种情况中的一种。
So an asset pricing anomaly could mean one or two things.
这种回报是CAPM模型无法解释的。
This is a return that can't be explained by the CAPM.
资产定价异常可能有两种含义。
An asset pricing anomaly could mean one of two things.
如果我们相信CAPM是完美解释预期回报的模型,那么这些异常就意味着市场并不有效。
If we believe the CAPM is a perfect model for explaining expected returns, Anomalies in that case must mean that markets are not efficient.
当时的一些论文,我记得有一篇甚至标题就叫《市场无效的有力证据》。
And some of the papers at this time, I think one of them was even titled persuasive proof of market inefficiency.
所以它也可能指这个意思。
So it could mean that.
或者,如果我们知道市场是有效的,那CAPM模型本身一定是有问题的。
Or if we know that markets are efficient, the CAPM in that case must just be the wrong model.
这两种可能性之间的矛盾,最终发现根本无法解决。
This tension between those two possibilities turns out to be impossible to resolve.
这一点法玛曾经写过。
And this is something that Fama wrote about.
这被称为联合假设问题。
It's called the joint hypothesis problem.
要判断市场是否有效,就必须有个资产定价模型来做测试,否则无从说起。
Basically, can't say whether markets are efficient without having an asset pricing model to test market efficiency.
而要验证一个资产定价模型是否正确,又得先知道市场是不是有效的。
And we can't prove whether an asset pricing model is right without knowing whether markets are efficient.
这就是所谓的联合假设问题。
So that's the joint hypothesis problem.
这样一来,所有这些都变得很难真正检验,至少没法明确告诉我们市场到底有没有效率。
It makes all of this really non testable, at least in a way that definitively tells us whether markets are efficient.
但即便如此,CAPM相关的资产定价研究依然意义重大。
But even still, the CAPM asset pricing research was hugely important.
法玛和弗伦奇1993年的论文就是从这里开始的。
That is where Fama and French start their 1993 paper.
所以他们聚焦于CAPM存在的三个关键问题。
So they focus on three key problems with the CAPM.
第一个问题是,小盘股的平均回报率比大盘股高,而这种差异无法用它们的CAPM贝塔值来解释。
One is that small stocks are in higher average returns than large stocks unexplained by differences in their CAPM betas.
另一个问题是,账面市值比高(即价值股)的股票,平均回报率高于账面市值比低(即成长股)的股票。
The other one is that high book to market or value stocks are in higher average returns than a low book to market or growth stocks.
同样,这也不能用它们的CAPM贝塔值差异来解释。
Again, unexplained by differences in their CAPM betas.
此外,贝塔值与平均回报之间的关系,比CAPM预测的要弱得多。
And then the relationship between beta and average returns was weaker than CAPM predicted.
可能有人听说过这个异常现象:低贝塔股票的回报反而比CAPM预测的还要高。
And people may be familiar with the anomaly there was low beta stocks earning higher returns than the CAPM would suggest that they should earn.
简单来说,CAPM认为,两只贝塔值相同的公司,无论规模大小或价值特征如何,预期回报都应该差不多。
In simple terms, the CAPM suggested that two companies with the same beta should have similar or identical expected returns regardless of their size or value characteristics or really any other characteristic for that matter.
任何不符合这个模型的情况,都会被看作定价错误或资产定价异常。
Anything not following the model would be considered mispricing or an asset pricing anomaly.
所以法玛和弗伦奇在这篇论文里就在想:我们该怎么解决这些问题?
And so Fama and French were looking at this in this paper and saying, how can we resolve this?
那这些异常现象该怎么解释呢?
How can we resolve these anomalies?
他们注意到了我刚才提到的收益模式,并在论文开篇就直言:美国普通股的收益横截面与夏普-林特纳资产定价模型中的市场贝塔值关系微弱。
So they had noted these patterns in returns that I just talked about and they say right in the front of their paper, the cross section of average returns on US common stocks shows a little relation to the market betas of the sharp littner asset pricing model.
这话说得可真够直接的。
Pretty blunt language.
他们毫不掩饰地指出,CAPM根本不管用。
They're pretty straight up about CAPM is not working.
但接下来才是最有趣的部分。
But then they follow-up and this is the part that's really interesting.
他们提出,也许传统模型忽略了某些真正被市场定价的风险因素。
They follow it up with the suggestion that maybe the standard model was ignoring risk factors that are actually priced by the market.
正是基于这个思路,法玛和弗伦奇构建了如今著名的三因子资产定价模型。
And so it's on that basis that Fama and French build their now famous three factor asset pricing model.
与CAPM只关注市场因子不同,法玛和弗伦奇提出了一个三因子模型,把股票的预期收益与市场因子联系起来——这一点和CAPM类似。
So rather than just looking at the market factor like the CAPM, Fama and French developed a three factor model that relates the stock's expected returns to the market factor, which is similar to the CAPM.
但他们加入了规模因子和相对价格或价值因子。
But they add a size factor and a relative price or value factor.
市场因子嘛,基本还是CAPM的那个思路。
So the market factor again, basically same idea as the CAPM.
就是股票或投资组合随着整体市场波动的程度。
How much the stock or portfolio moves when the overall market moves.
这能看出股票是跟着市场一起涨还是跌。
That shows whether the stocks went up or down with the market.
这仍然是个非常关键的因子,因为大盘的整体波动确实会影响大多数股票,不管它们规模大小或价值特征如何。
It's still a super important factor because broad market movements do tend to affect most stocks regardless of their size or value characteristics.
在法玛和弗伦奇的论文里,CAPM仍然能解释大约60%、有些情况甚至到70%、80%的收益差异。
And the CAPM in Fama and French's paper, it still explains around 60, maybe 70, in some cases 80% of differences in returns.
所以它依然是个极其重要的因子。
So it's still a hugely important factor.
规模因子就很好理解了。
The size factor is pretty straightforward.
这是根据公司规模来衡量的。
It's based on the size of companies.
更具体地说,它被称为SMB,也就是小盘股减去大盘股。
More specifically, it's denoted as SMB or small minus big.
这个因子反映的是小公司股票和大公司股票收益之间的差异。
This factor refers to the difference in returns between small company stocks and large company stocks.
如果在某个时期小盘股的表现优于大盘股,SMB溢价就是正的——当时他们做研究的时候正是这种情况,所以才被认定为一种异常现象或风险因子。
And if small stocks outperform large stocks in a given period, the SMB premium is positive, which it had been at the time that they're doing this research, which is why it was identified as an anomaly or a risk factor.
如果大盘股的表现优于小盘股,这种情况在论文发表后的很多时期都出现过,那么溢价就是负的。
If large stocks do better than small stocks, which has happened over a lot of the periods of time since this paper came out, the premium is negative.
加入这个因子,就能看出小公司是否与某种系统性的收益变动相关,而投资者是否因此获得补偿。
So including this factor captures whether being a small company is related to any systematic return variation that investors are compensated for.
第三个是价值因子。
And then the third one is the value factor.
它用HML表示,也就是高账面市值比减去低账面市值比,账面市值比其实就是公司会计上的账面价值与市场价值的比率。
And this one's denoted as HML or high minus low, which is referring to the book to market valuation ratios of companies book to market is basically the company's accounting value.
就是账面价值和股票市场价值之间的对比。
It's like on paper value compared to its stock market value.
账面上值多少钱,跟投资者愿意出多少钱买它,有什么区别?
What's it worth on paper versus what are people investors willing to pay for it?
账面市值比高的,就是价值型股票。
High book to market ratio means it's a value stock.
这类股票的市场价格相对于其资产的账面价值来说更便宜。
They're cheaper in market price relative to the book value of their assets.
而账面市值比低的,就是成长型股票。
And then a low book to market stock is a growth stock.
成长型股票就是投资者愿意为未来的潜力多付钱,导致股价远远高于公司资产的账面价值。
So a growth stock is where investors are willing to pay more for future potential, which pushes prices further above the book value of the company's assets.
HML,也就是高减低,衡量的是价值股和成长股之间的收益差异。
HML high minus low measures the difference in returns between value stocks and growth stocks.
和SMB溢价类似,当价值股表现更好时,HML溢价——也就是价值溢价——就是正的,反过来就相反。
And again similar to the SMB premium when value stocks outperform the HML premium or the value premium is positive and then vice versa.
所以这捕捉了投资者持有价值股而非成长股时所获得的任何收益溢价。
So that captures the effect of any return premium that investors receive for holding value stocks rather than growth stocks.
这些因子,包括市场因子,都被称作多空投资组合。
Each of these factors, including the market factor, are called long short portfolios.
比如SMB,就是做多小盘股,做空大盘股。
So SMB, for example, is long small cap stocks and short big stocks.
关于多空投资组合,其实可以展开很多讨论。
You could have a whole discussion about that, about long short portfolios.
因子组合的构建方式还有一些挺特别的地方,但我觉得这些细节可能太专业了,不适合在这儿细讲。
There's some other funny things about the way that the factor portfolios are constructed too, which is even too nerdy, I think, for this discussion.
但核心思想是,这些因子组合专门设计用来捕捉与公司规模和相对价格相关的收益变动。
But the main idea is that they constructed these factor portfolios that are really designed to capture the return variations related to company size and relative price.
这些系统性的收益变动,当时已经被广泛记录为收益异常现象。
The systematic return variations, which are things that at the time had been well documented as return anomalies.
不过有意思的是,这一点是对的
The interesting thing about this though is, correct
我可能说错了,但他们好像没提到第三个问题,就是我所说的低波动率异象——那些低贝塔股票,模型预测它们表现会差,结果却表现得更好。
me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't seem like they addressed the third issue, which was basically what I would call the low volatility anomaly where you had these low beta stocks that the model suggested would underperform, but in fact, they outperformed.
它并不是后来新增用来解释的因子之一。
It's not one of the new factors added to explain.
低波动率已经变成了一种投资策略,现在有不少基金专门针对这个策略。
Low volatility has become a investment strategy, and there are funds in that that try to capture it.
我不确定它是否像其他因子那样具备同样的学术严谨性。
I'm not sure that it has the same kind of academic rigor that the other factors have.
我觉得它有。
I think it does.
只是有点不一样。
It's a little bit different.
法玛和弗伦奇的三因子模型,你说得对,丹。
Fama and French's three factor model, you're right, Dan.
它确实没怎么处理低波动率异象。
It it didn't really address the low volatility anomaly.
他们后来提出的五因子模型,我们稍后会提到。
Their later five factor model, which we'll touch on in a little bit.
这个模型在解释低波动率异常方面前进了一大步。
It did go quite a bit further in addressing or explaining the low volatility anomaly.
不过,三因子模型确实没怎么涉及这个问题。
But yeah, the three factor model didn't really touch it.
你说得对。
You're right.
我在这篇论文里做的下一件事特别有意思,他们构建了这个模型,然后得实际检验一下。
The next thing I do in this paper, which is really neat is they create this model, but then they need to kind of take it for a spin.
为了测试这个模型,他们根据股票的规模和价值特征,构建了分散的投资组合。
To do that, to take it for a test drive, they formed diversified portfolios by sorting stocks based on size and value characteristics.
也就是说,他们把股票进行了分类。
So they split stocks.
这些是美国股票,被分成了五个规模组和五个账面市值比组。
These are US stocks into five size groups and five book to market groups.
所以我们一共得到了25个测试投资组合。
So we get a total 25 test portfolios.
这样就能涵盖规模和价值这两个因素的所有组合。
So this really just allow them to capture every combination of the two size and value factors.
一端是小型价值股,另一端是大型成长股,中间还有各种可能的组合。
We've got like small value stocks on one end, we've got big growth stocks on the other end and then all the possible combinations in between.
他们发现,这些股票组的平均收益率存在明显差异。
They show that these groups of stocks do have pretty significant variation in average returns.
这里肯定有什么门道。
There is something going on here for sure.
接着,他们检验了这个三因子资产定价模型能否解释这种差异。
And then they test whether their three factor asset pricing model is able to explain that variation.
这一步在当时非常突破性,至今仍广泛出现在学术金融论文和实际投资分析中。
This is where they did something that at the time was pretty groundbreaking and still shows up in tons of academic finance papers and practical investment analysis today.
他们用时间序列回归分析,检验这些定价因子对25个测试组合收益的解释能力。
They used time series regression to test how well their asset pricing factors explained the returns of their 25 test portfolios.
时间序列回归会分析一个投资组合随时间的收益,看看模型中使用的资产定价因子能解释多少收益变动。
Time series regression looks at the returns of a portfolio over time and asks how much of the variation in returns is explained by the asset pricing factors being used in the model.
做时间序列回归其实很简单。
It's pretty straightforward to run a time series regression.
用Excel就能轻松完成。
You can do it pretty easily in Excel.
网上还有免费工具,比如Portfolio Visualizer,你只要输入一个股票代码,它就能自动运行三因子或五因子回归分析。
There's also free tools online like portfolio visualizer, where you can just drop in a ticker and it'll run a three or a five factor regression.
在Portfolio Visualizer上,你甚至可以尝试不同的资产定价模型。
On portfolio visualizer, you can even try different asset pricing models.
法玛和弗伦奇提出了他们的定价模型,但市场上还有其他竞争性的模型。
Fama and French have their asset pricing models, but there are other competing models out there.
我们刚才提到的这些工具,让投资分析进入了一个黄金时代。
Anyway, the tools we have talked about a golden age of investing.
现在你只要点几下鼠标,就能完成当年法玛和弗伦奇在1993年花很长时间才能做完的分析。
You can just put a couple clicks run analysis that would have taken Fama and French a lot longer to do back in 1993.
更别提1965年的比尔·夏普了。
Let alone Bill Sharp in 1965.
是的。
Yeah.
没错。
Right.
我们现在回头看CAPM模型,觉得它太简单了。
It's very easy for us to kind of look back at a model like CAPM and say, it's simplistic.
它解释不了多少东西。
It doesn't explain that much.
但当年要不是他,根本没人能做出来,这背后是有原因的。
It's like, yeah, but there's a reason why nobody did it until him.
我们真的把很多东西都当成理所当然了。
We really do take a lot of this for granted.
对。
Yeah.
是的。
Yeah.
时间序列回归的输出结果会给出因子载荷,也就是我们常说的系数。
The output of a time series regression is gonna spit out factor loadings is what we call them there or coefficients.
它主要告诉你所分析的投资组合相对于每个因子是如何变动的。
And it really just tells you how the portfolio being looked at moves relative to each factor.
同时还会输出一个阿尔法值,代表模型中那些因子无法解释的收益部分。
And it's also going to spit out an alpha, which is the portion of returns that was not explained by the factors in the model.
这个阿尔法值在投资管理实践中确实非常重要,对学术研究也是如此。
Now that last term alpha turns out to be pretty important to the practice of investment management for sure, but also to academic analysis.
阿尔法这个概念最早出现在1968年的一篇论文中,用来描述经风险调整后的超额收益。
So alpha was first used to describe excess risk adjusted returns in a 1968 paper.
这篇论文的作者是迈克尔·詹森。
Now this is a Michael Jensen paper.
如果你对这类话题感兴趣,这绝对是一篇经典之作。
It's another banger of a paper if you're into this kind of thing.
这其实是一篇非常精彩的论文。
It's actually a really cool paper.
就是我前面提到的那篇,他们把当时刚出现的CAPM模型应用到了主动型基金的表现分析上。
It's the one I mentioned earlier where they took the CAPM, this new thing at the time and applied it to active fund performance.
他们用单一市场因子的定价模型,来检验主动管理的共同基金经理是否真的创造了超出其承担风险水平的超额收益。
They took the single factor, capitalize a pricing model and asked whether actively managed mutual fund managers were generating returns in excess of what should be expected based on the amount of risk they're taking.
虽然这和我们当前的话题有点偏离,但值得提一下,这项研究发现,主动型基金经理根本无法战胜市场。
It's tangential to this discussion, but it's worth mentioning that active managers in that study were not able to beat the market.
我们以前讨论指数基金时就提到过这篇论文。
We've talked about that paper in the past when we were making the case for index funds, think.
这个模型只考虑了市场风险。
That model only only accounted for market risk.
它只用了CAPM这一种模型。
It only accounted for CAPM.
我们稍后会再回过头来讨论,把其他因子加入这种分析后会产生什么影响。
We'll come back to the effects of including other factors in that type of analysis later.
在法玛和弗伦奇1993年的论文中,他们选取了25个测试投资组合,追踪了它们从1963年到1991年的表现。
In the context of Fama and French's 1993 paper, they took each of the 25 test portfolios and tracked their performance from 1963 to 1991.
然后他们用这个模型来解释这些组合收益之间的差异。
And then they used their model to try to explain the differences in their returns.
对于每个投资组合,回归分析都估算出其收益与模型中三个因子的联动程度,以及是否存在显著的超额收益——也就是模型无法解释的部分。
So for each portfolio the regression estimated how its returns co moved with the three factors in the model and whether there were any large alphas the excess returns unexplained by the model.
他们还计算了R平方值。
They also measured the R squared values.
R平方衡量的是回归模型的解释能力。
It measures the explanatory power of a regression model.
它表示一个投资组合随时间波动的百分之多少能由这些因子解释。
What percentage of a portfolio's ups and downs over time could be attributed to the factors.
R平方为1意味着模型能完全解释收益变化,而为0则说明这些因子几乎无法解释任何收益。
An R squared of one would mean perfect explanatory power and zero would mean that the factors explained basically none of the returns.
法玛和弗伦奇在25个测试组合中发现的超额收益和R平方值,结果非常惊人。
What Fama and French found in terms of alphas and R squareds across their 25 test portfolios was pretty incredible.
记住,这是一个实证模型。
Keeping in mind, this is an empirical model.
他们用了市场因子,发现小公司的一些表现挺异常的。
Like they had the market factor and we've got this small companies are doing some weird stuff.
价值型公司也有些不寻常的表现。
Value companies are doing some weird stuff.
不如干脆把它们都测试一遍,看看是不是真有什么规律。
Let's test them all out and see if there's something going on here.
他们发现,这25个投资组合的R平方值分布在0.83到0.97之间。
They find that the R squared values ranged from across these 25 test portfolios range from 0.83 to 0.97.
平均下来大约是0.93,在25个组合里有21个都非常高。
It was about 0.93 on average across the test portfolios, which is very high in 21 of the 25 portfolios tested.
这些回归的R平方值都超过了0.9。
The r squared value of the regression was over 0.9.
所以,这就是为什么在因子分析圈子里,大家普遍这么认为。
So this is where we get the common at least in our world of factor nerdiness.
通常的说法是,三因子模型能解释不同分散投资组合之间约90%的收益差异。
Common description that the three factor model explains around 90% of the differences in returns between diversified portfolios.
这些测试还带出另外两个关键数据点。
There are two other key data points that came out of these tests.
其中一个发现是,每个测试组合的贝塔值都接近1。
One was that each test portfolio had a beta very close to one.
这很有意思,因为它进一步说明,收益的波动并不仅仅由市场贝塔暴露决定。
That was interesting because it reinforced the fact that the variation in returns is explained by more than just exposure to market beta.
因为所有组合的市场贝塔暴露基本一致,但收益却相差很大。
Since the market beta exposures were basically the same across the board, but the returns varied widely.
如果市场贝塔真能完全定价所有资产,这个发现会非常令人意外。
Now that would be very surprising that finding if market beta fully priced all assets.
但实际情况是,我们看到的结果反而符合法玛和弗伦奇在提出因子模型前的预测。
But instead we kind of see things following the pattern that Fama and French predicted with their pre factor model.
在这些测试中,我们再次看到,CAPM只能解释60%到80%的收益变化。
This is where again in these tests, we see that CAPM explains 60 to 80%.
我通常听到的说法是,这个模型能解释不同分散投资组合之间约60%的收益差异。
I usually hear it described as around 60% differences in returns across diversified portfolios.
我澄清一下,比如说,如果三因子模型解释了90%,那剩下的10%可能是能力,也可能是运气。
Just to clarify here, like if you say for example, the three factor model explains 90%, the 10% that is unexplained could be skill, but it could also be luck.
而这个模型本身并不能区分这两者。
And the model does not differentiate between those two.
可能是能力、运气,或者还有其他尚未发现的因素。
Skill, luck or some yet to be determined factor.
就是说,这部分是无法解释的。
It means unexplained.
它并不意味着是由那三个因子之外的某个具体因素造成的。
It doesn't mean explained by something specific other than those three factors.
只是说我们还不清楚原因。
It just means we don't know.
对。
Correct.
模型之外的某种因素。
Something outside of the model being tested.
即便如此,后来他们加入更多因子后,解释力能提升到百分之九十、九十三、九十四,甚至接近百分之九十五。
Even still, when they add more factors later, we get up to maybe ninety, ninety three, 94, maybe 95% explanatory power.
但总还是会剩下一点说不清的个体成分。
But there's kind of always going to be that idiosyncratic component of whatever.
个体风险、技能、运气,或者你愿意怎么称呼都行。
Idiosyncratic risk or skill or lock or whatever you want to call it.
我觉得有必要再强调一下,我们从CAPM模型只能解释分散投资组合收益差异的百分之六十到八十,进步到了用三因子模型能解释超过百分之九十。
I do think it's worth reiterating that we went from being able to explain somewhere between sixty, seventy, maybe 80% of the differences in returns between diversified portfolios with the CAPM to being able to explain over 90% with a three factor model.
简直不可思议。
Pretty crazy.
他们在回归分析中另一个重要发现是,三因子模型在几乎所有测试组合上得到的截距或阿尔法值都接近于零。
Another important observation in their regressions was that the three factor regressions resulted in near zero intercepts or alphas on almost all test portfolios.
唯一的例外是小盘成长股,这一点他们一直很头疼,甚至五因子模型到现在也没能很好解决。
The one exception, the one that they really struggled with and actually their five factor model continue to struggle with was small cap growth stocks.
它们的收益远低于三因子模型所能解释的水平。
They had and have much lower returns than the three factor model could explain.
这就为未来的研究留下了很大空间。
So that left a lot of room for future research.
虽然已经做了很多研究,但小盘成长股的收益依然偏低,始终低于资产定价模型的预测。
A lot of which has been done, but there's still a funny anomaly there where small cap growth stocks continue to tend to have lower returns than asset pricing models predict.
大多数情况下阿尔法值接近零,唯独小盘成长股例外,这一点很重要,也可能是对这个模型最有力的验证之一。
The minimal alphas in most cases except for small growth is important and it might be one of the most compelling sort of validations of the model.
法玛和弗伦奇证明,一旦考虑了市值和价值因子的影响,绝大多数投资组合中几乎不再存在持续的未解释收益。
Fama and French demonstrate that once you account for market size and value factor exposures, there are basically no persistent unexplained returns remaining in most portfolio sorts.
而这,就是那90%的解释力。
And again, that's the 90%.
我们基本上已经解释了这些在多个重要维度上各不相同的投资组合之间的大部分收益差异。
Like we're explaining most of the differences in returns across all these portfolios that vary across a couple of important dimensions.
他们在这篇论文里做的另一件事,我特别喜欢。
The other thing they did in this paper that I love.
他们把25个测试投资组合按规模和价值进行了分类。
So they had their 25 test portfolios sorted on size and value.
不错。
Cool.
但他们还考虑了另外两个在学术文献中被认为与更高收益相关的特征。
But they also had two other characteristics that had been associated in academic literature as being associated with higher returns.
于是他们再次用三因子模型来检验能否解释这些异常现象。
So they again fire up the three factor model to see if they can explain those anomalies.
这两个特征分别是股息收益率和盈利收益率。
Those were dividends to price and earnings to price.
结果他们发现,三因子模型同样能很好地解释这些投资组合的收益表现。
And they again find that the three factor model explains the returns across these portfolios as well.
这正是法玛和弗伦奇彻底颠覆了股息导向投资者信念的地方——他们证明,股息本身并没有什么特别之处。
And so this is one of the places where Fama and French really shattered the beliefs of dividend focused investors and showed that there's nothing special about dividends.
即使高股息收益率的投资组合表现不错,那也是因为它属于价值型投资,而不是因为股息本身有什么魔力。
Even if the high dividend to price portfolio does perform kind of well, it's because it's a value portfolio, not because dividends are special.
我正想说这个呢。
That's what I was going to say.
是不是因为这些因素重叠得很多?
Is it just there's a lot of overlap here, right?
很多高股息股票的股息高,是因为股价低。
A lot of high dividend stocks have high dividends because they have low prices.
没错。
That's right.
其实就是
It's just
换个角度看而已。
the inverse way of looking at it.
我同意,这一点可能一直没被股息投资者完全接受——不是高股息本身好,
And I agree with this is something that I think has not always resonated with dividend investors, is not that the high dividend is good.
而是股息高是因为股价低,真正好的是股价低。
It's that the dividend is high because the price is low, and the low price is what's good.
高股息可以作为价值的一种指标。
High dividends can be a proxy for value.
我的理解是,法玛和弗伦奇发现,市净率其实并不是一个很好的价值指标,要找价值股,市净率更靠谱。
My understanding of this is that Fama and French showed that it's not a very good proxy that price to book is a better measure if you're trying to find value.
衡量价值股的方法有很多。
There's lots of different ways to measure value stocks.
但他们认为,市净率是最稳定、最可靠的衡量方式。
But they have focused, I believe, right, on price to book as being the most reliable way of measuring this factor.
自从1993年那篇论文以来,这方面的研究已经进步了很多,现在把盈利能力和价值结合起来看,效果更好。
It's come a long way since this 1993 paper, where once they bring in profitability and kind of combine that with value and you're looking at those two metrics together.
他们更精准地在找那种便宜但真正有投资价值的公司。
I think that they're precision in looking at what is a cheap company, but a cheap company that actually is a good investment opportunity.
同时考虑这两个因素,效果很不错,而且和股息也有很有趣的关联。
Looking at both those factors is quite good, which has an interesting interaction with dividends as well.
因为如果你看一个高股息的投资组合,它很可能本身就带有价值股的倾向。
Because if you look at a dividend portfolio, it's probably going to have a value tilt.
很可能它也带有盈利性的偏向。
There's a good chance it's got a profitability tilt too.
股息实际上是一个相当不错的初步筛选工具,能有效捕捉到几个学术上非常稳健的因素。
Dividends turned out to be a pretty good naive filter for a couple of very robust academically robust factors.
从股息投资的角度来看,有趣的是,你可以构建一个同时聚焦价值和盈利性的投资组合,而无需依赖股息作为筛选标准。
Think where it gets interesting from the dividend investing perspective is that you could build that portfolio that loads on value and profitability without needing to sort by dividends.
因为如果你要组建一个以股息为核心的组合,就得排除一大群不派息的公司。
Cause you're excluding a whole bunch of companies that don't pay dividends to build a dividend focused portfolio.
但如果你真正想做的只是偏向价值和盈利性,完全可以用不着拘泥于股息。
When if you're really just trying to tilt toward value and profitability, you can do that without the dividend focus.
加上股息的偏向,往往会让你的组合里包含更多大型公司。
With the dividend tilt, you'll often end up with larger companies as well.
但你可能并不希望这样。
And you might not want that.
你也许希望偏向规模,也可能不希望。
You might want to tilt towards size or not.
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但如果你只盯着股息,就会无意中暴露在其他因子下,而你本可以直接瞄准真正驱动收益的因子,构建一个更分散、更灵活的投资组合。
But when you focus on dividends, you sort of get naive exposure to the other factors when you could be focusing on the factors that are actually driving returns and get a more diversified, more customizable portfolio.
还有一点值得提一下,就像法玛和弗伦奇在论文里说的,他们把那些因子当作系统性风险因子来建模,这一点至今仍有争议。
One thing that is worth mentioning is it's still debatable, like Fama and French, the language they use in this paper is that we're modeling these as systematic risk factors.
这确实还存疑。
That's still debatable.
我们其实还不清楚,这些因子到底是风险带来的,还是定价错误造成的。
We don't really know if they're risk factors or if they're artifact of mispricing.
这也是个特别特别难彻底验证的问题。
And that's another one of those things that's really really hard to test definitively.
我们从数据里看到的这些系统性因子,究竟是因为定价错误才存在,还是因为风险才存在?
Do these systematic factors that we can see in the data, do they exist because of mispricing or do they exist because of risk?
我甚至不确定这到底有没有关系。
I don't even know if it matters.
但如果你觉得定价错误迟早会被套利消除——确实有人这么认为——那这就很重要了。
I think it matters if you believe that mispricing would be arbitraged away, which some people do believe.
我们请过一些嘉宾,他们谈过自己对这个问题的看法。
We've had some guests talk about how they think that has happened.
如果你相信套利有局限,系统性的定价偏差会因此持续存在,那其实不用纠结我们是在看风险还是定价偏差——只要相信这些现象会继续下去,这才是真正关键的问题。
If you believe that there are limits to arbitrage and that systematic mispricings won't go away for that reason, I don't think it's really relevant whether we're looking at risk or mispricing as long as we believe these things are going to persist, which is really the big question from a practical perspective.
因为如果我们能观察到这些因子,发现它们确实能解释不同投资组合之间的收益差异,那就挺好的。
Because if we can look at these factors and say, they exist and hey, cool, they explain differences in returns across diversified portfolios.
但我们无法确定。
We can't know.
但如果认为这些因子未来的溢价不会为正,那我们可能就不想主动配置它们。
But if we don't think that the premiums for these factors are going to be positive going forward, we may not want to tilt toward them.
甚至如果知道溢价会是负的,我们可能还会主动避开它们。
I mean, may even want to tilt away from them if you knew that the premiums were going to be negative.
这两者其实是分开的:一个模型可以很好地解释收益差异,但溢价未必必须为正。
They're kind of separate I guess, where you can have a model that does a good job explaining differences in returns, but the premiums don't have to be positive.
但如果你打算配置它们,自然还是希望它们的溢价能是正的。
But if you're to tilt toward them, you kind of hope they're going to be positive.
法玛和弗伦奇最重要的发现是,规模效应和价值效应并不一定是异常现象。
The big thing Fama and French showed is that size and value don't need to be anomalies.
我们没必要非得用资本资产定价模型的视角来看世界,觉得这些东西说不通。
We don't have to look at the world from a CAPM perspective and say, hey, these things don't make sense.
法玛和弗伦奇认为,这些因素可能是系统性的风险因子,我们在分析投资组合、评估不同股票时,必须把它们考虑进去。
What Fama and French said is maybe these things are systematic factors risk or otherwise that we need to account for when we're looking at portfolios and assessing different types of stocks.
当他们把这些因素纳入模型后,几乎能完全解释这些广泛多元化投资组合之间的收益差异。
And when they include those in their model, they are able to almost fully explain return differences across this broad range of diversified portfolios.
这彻底改变了我们对市场的看法。
That really changed how we viewed markets.
我们从资本资产定价模型下大约60%的解释力,提升到了三因子模型超过90%的解释力。
We went from in a CAPM world, that's sort of whatever you want to call it 60% explanatory power to with a three factor model, 90% plus explanatory power.
这个提升非常显著。
It's a very powerful increase.
这种影响还体现在其他方面,不只是简单地说‘哦,挺有意思’。
Other area that this has an impact is not just it's like, okay, cool.
我们能够解释收益之间的差异。
We can explain differences in returns.
这挺有意思的。
That's neat.
这些现象不一定都是异常情况。
These things don't all have to be anomalies.
明白了。
Okay.
但当我们问为什么有些主动管理者表现更好时,事情就变得更有趣了。
But it gets really interesting again when we say, why have some active managers outperformed?
如果他们表现好是因为能力出众,那我们或许该多给他们投点钱。
If they've outperformed because they're skilled, then maybe we should be giving them more money to invest.
但如果他们只是押注了价值股或小盘股,那这就不那么特别了,也不该为此收取高额费用。
If they've outperformed because they tilted toward value or size, maybe that's not as interesting and maybe they shouldn't command a high fee for that service.
说白了,如果你知道一个经理只是在押注价值股,他却要收你1.5%到2%的管理费。
It's basically like if you know a manager is just tilting toward value stocks, they're going to charge you one and a half or 2% to do that.
你直接买个价值指数基金,费用可能就二十个基点而已。
You could just buy a value index for whatever 20 basis points.
法玛和弗伦奇后来用三因子模型研究过这个问题。
Fama and French did look at that in later research using the three factor model.
那就是他们那篇关于主动基金中运气与能力的著名论文。
That's their famous paper on luck versus skill in active fund management.
确实让人好奇,在这些道理还没被搞清楚之前,就已经有基金经理跑赢市场了。
One does wonder, before this was really understood, there were managers who outperformed.
回头看的时候,难免带点事后诸葛亮的视角,我们会说:你赢是因为你更偏向小盘股或者价值股。
Looking back with hindsight bias, we can say, well, you outperformed because you tilted more to small stocks or value stocks.
但那些基金经理在学术研究证实这些因子有溢价之前,就已经发现了这些机会。
But those managers identified those opportunities presumably before the academic research showed that they had premiums.
所以他们可能是运气好,但也可能是直觉特别准。
So they might have been lucky, but they might have just had very good intuition.
一旦这些因子被广泛知晓,由于市场整体效率很高,它们的超额收益可能会逐渐缩小。
Once the factors get publicized, there is some potential for them to shrink because the market is mostly efficient.
如果这些确实是定价错误或对风险的误解,随着人们逐渐理解,它们未来应该会逐渐缩小。
If some of these things were indeed mispricings, misunderstandings of risk, that would presumably get smaller in the future as people understood that.
但要从实际的基金和经理表现中把这些问题分辨清楚,实在太难了。
But this is all very difficult to tease out from real world fund and manager performance.
是的,没错。
Oh, yeah.
确实如此。
Very much so.
确实,论文发表后,这些因子的收益趋势上确实在变小。
That is true that post publication factor premiums have tended to get smaller.
但我认为它们还没完全消失。
I don't think they've gone to zero.
我们有个叫安德鲁·陈的人,他认为它们已经消失了。
We've had one guess Andrew Chen who thinks that they have.
他研究了美国市场,觉得可能就是因为这个原因,这些溢价已经归零了。
He's looked at The US and said that maybe they've gone to zero for exactly that reason.
你看美国以外的地方,因子溢价依然相当可观,甚至在安德鲁的美国样本之后,价值溢价在那段特定时期内仍然是正的。
You look outside The US and The fact premiums have still been quite positive and even post Andrew's sample in The US, the value premium for example has been positive over that specific period.
这些东西里头的噪音实在太多了。
So much noise in this stuff.
很难说什么是真的。
It's hard to say what is true.
我觉得我们有的只是不同程度的似真性,而不是真正的真相。
I think we have degrees of truthiness rather than truth.
是的。
Yeah.
我们能确信的东西实在太少了。
There's so little that we can be confident and certain about.
你只能根据现有证据做合理判断,别对任何理论赋予太多预测能力。
You just try to do what makes sense based on the evidence without putting too much predictive power on any theory.
总的来说,这篇论文的发现既挑战了单因子CAPM资产定价模型,又在此基础上构建了一个更全面的框架,帮助投资者系统性地思考如何构建和评估投资组合。
Altogether, the findings of this paper, they challenged, but they also built on single factor CAPM asset pricing to create a much more comprehensive framework for how investors should think about building and evaluating portfolios systematically.
这篇论文发表后,我前面提到的那个术语——实证资产定价——突然就火了起来。
And then after this paper came out, it kind of caused this explosion in the term that I mentioned earlier, which is called empirical asset pricing.
其实就是看收益数据,琢磨到底是什么因素在推动这些收益。
It's really like looking at returns and figuring out what factors might be driving them.
这个研究领域一下子爆发了。
So that field of study really exploded.
研究人员都想找出最有效的那些因素。
Researchers wanted to find the best factors.
他们还试图构建更优的资产定价模型。
They wanted to create better asset pricing models.
这事儿后来可能有点过头了。
It kind of became a bit of a problem maybe.
约翰·科克伦在2011年美国金融协会的主席演讲中,把那些层出不穷的因素称为一个动物园。
John Cochran in his twenty eleven presidential address at the American Finance Association, he described the proliferation of factors as a zoo.
所以‘因子动物园’这个说法就这么出名了。
So it's kind of become this famous term, the factor zoo.
你甚至可以管它叫‘因子杂烩’。
You could maybe even call it factor slop.
我不确定要不要借用我最近那个关于ETF杂烩视频里的说法。
I don't know to use the language from my recent video on ETF slop.
这么说可能对那些发现这些因子的研究人员不太公平。
That's probably not very nice to some of the researchers who have discovered some of the any factors.
我也说不准。
I don't know.
不过2016年有一篇由卡姆·哈维、刘和朱合著的论文。
But there was a 2016 paper from Cam Harvey Liu and Zhu.
他们当时发现——也就是十年前了——学术期刊上已经发表了360个不同的因子。
And they found at that time, this is ten years ago now, they found that there were three sixteen distinct factors that had been published in academic journals at the time.
后来的研究似乎表明,虽然当时发表了360个因子,但其实它们大都属于少数几类。
I think later research has kind of suggested that maybe there were three sixteen published factors, but they really all fall into a relatively small number of categories.
所以表面上看有三百六十种花样,但归根结底,真正核心的也就那么几个。
So we found like three sixteen different flavors, but there's when you really boil it down, there's only a handful still.
无论如何,这催生了一整套新的学术方法,用来筛选因子。
In any case, it did create this whole new set of academic techniques for choosing factors.
你怎么判断哪些因子该放进模型里?
How do you evaluate which factors belong in a model?
还有各种比较资产定价模型的技术。
Different techniques for comparing asset pricing models.
现在这方面的论文已经多得不得了。
So there's like a whole bunch of papers on this now.
面对这堆乱七八糟的因子,你怎么叫它都行。
In the face of the zoo or the slop, whatever you want to call it.
法玛和弗伦奇后来确实更新了他们1993年的论文。
Fama and French did go on to update their 1993 paper.
我不确定那算不算更新,反正他们重新搞了个模型。
I don't know if they call an update, guess.
2015年他们推出了新模型,加了两个新因子:盈利能力和投资。
They created a new model in 2015 and they introduced two new factors with that update and those are profitability and investment.
盈利能力用RMW表示,也就是高盈利减去低盈利。
So profitability is expressed as RMW or robust minus week.
指的是高盈利公司相对于低盈利公司的超额收益,或者说稳健盈利对薄弱盈利的回报差。
And that's the excess return from companies with high profitability over those with weak profitability or robust profitability over weak profitability.
投资行为则用CMA表示,即保守型减去激进型。
And then investment is expressed as CMA conservative minus aggressive.
那些资产账面价值增长缓慢的公司属于保守型,通常表现更好,而那些大举投入资金追求快速资产扩张的公司则被称为激进型。
And that's companies that grow the book value of their assets slowly, which is conservative, tend to outperform those that pour cash into rapid asset growth, which are called aggressive.
五因子模型确实解决了三因子模型没能解释的一些问题。
And the five factor model did help to solve some of the problems that the three factor model was not able to.
我们之前提到过低波动率异常现象。
We talked about the low volatility anomaly.
三因子模型还有几个其他无法解释的现象,不过法玛和弗伦奇写过另一篇论文专门讨论这个。
There were a couple of other ones that were still unexplained by the three factor model, but Fama and French have a separate paper.
我记不清具体标题了,但大概是关于用五因子模型剖析异象,他们挑了一堆资产定价异象,指出这些现在基本都能被五因子模型解释了。
I can't remember what exactly what the title is, but it's something about dissecting anomalies with the five factor model where they go and take a bunch of asset pricing anomalies and say, well, these are largely explained by the five factor model now.
正如我之前提到的,根据我们讨论的不同投资组合分类,解释力提升到了接近95%。
And as I mentioned earlier, it did move the explanatory power up closer to 95 depending on which portfolio sort we were talking about.
在不同多元化投资组合的收益差异中,它能解释高达94%的部分。
Was sort of up to 94% of the differences in returns across diversified portfolios.
如今,五因子模型可以说已经成为业界的标准工具。
And the five factor model is really now today, I would call it the sort of workhorse.
它现在是学术金融领域最主流的资产定价模型。
It's like the benchmark asset pricing model in academic finance.
你觉得我们花点时间聊聊盈利能力怎么样?
You think it's worth a quick chat about profitability?
对我来说,投资因子一直最难直观理解,但盈利能力也有同样的问题。
I mean, investment to me has always been the most difficult one to understand intuitively, but profitability has that issue as well.
我觉得这其实又回到了低波动率异象这个点上。
I think it does come back to this idea of the low volatility anomaly.
换句话说,我们都直觉上明白,小盘股的预期收益通常高于大盘股,主要是因为它们风险更高。
Like in other words, I think we all understand intuitively, small stocks have higher expected returns than large companies, it's usually because they're riskier.
对于价值股,也许是因为风险。
For value, maybe it's risk.
行为因素我觉得也解释了很多。
The behavioral component, I think explains a lot too.
人们通常不喜欢那些便宜又无聊的公司,反而偏爱大而贵的公司。
People generally don't like cheap boring companies and they like big expensive companies.
他们愿意为这些公司多付钱。
They will pay more for them.
盈利能力就更难理解了,为什么投资者不愿意投资那些明显盈利的公司呢?
Profitability is a lot harder to understand because why would investors not want to invest in companies that are clearly profitable?
如果他们真的青睐这些所谓的优质公司,那价格早该被推高,直到这种现象消失——就像老话说的,你不能单凭公司好坏来判断一只股票。
If they were attracted to those quote unquote good companies, would they not drive up the price until the point where this is kind of the old idea of you can't tell a good stock by identifying a good company.
因为价格才是关键。
Because price means everything.
有没有什么合理的解释,说明为什么投资者反而不青睐盈利好的公司,从而让这些公司获得更高的预期回报?
Is there some explanatory reason why investors would not prefer profitable companies and therefore impart some kind of higher expected return on them?
我一直以来都是从多因子的角度来思考这个问题的。
I've always had to think about it from a multi factor perspective.
这其实是一种其他条件都相同的情况。
It's really like an all else equal perspective.
如果我们拿两家在所有特征上都完全一样的公司,只是其中一家盈利能力更强,但它们的价值特征和其他方面都一样。
If we take two companies that are otherwise identical on all characteristics, but one has higher profitability, but they've got the same value characteristics and all that stuff.
为了让这两家公司的估值相同,盈利能力更强的那家,其未来现金流必须被赋予更高的折现率。
The higher profitability company must have a higher discount rate applied to its future cash flows in order for their valuations to be the same for these two companies.
所以当我们考虑该买哪只股票时,如果发现一只更盈利的股票,却和另一只股票的相对价格一样。
So if we're looking at which stock should I buy and we find one that's more profitable, but it's trading at the same relative price as some other stock.
那么市场为体现这些特征而隐含的折现率,一定更高。
The inferred discount rate or implied discount rate that the market must be pricing it for those characteristics to be the way that they are, must be higher.
我觉得这也是法玛和弗伦奇在他们的五因子模型论文里所讲的逻辑。
And I think that's the story that Fama and French talk about in their five factor paper as well.
而当你从单一因子的角度来看时,我觉得价值因子其实也差不多。
And then when you think about it from a single factor perspective, I think it's kind of similar for value actually.
如果我们从整体来看价值股,就像你说的,它们的预期回报更高,因为这些公司都挺枯燥的。
If we think about just value stocks in aggregate, they have higher expected returns like you said because they're boring companies.
人们觉得它们的风险没那么高。
People aren't had maybe riskier.
人们对这些公司兴趣不大。
People aren't as interested in them.
所以它们的价格比较低。
So they've got lower prices.
但我们也得问一个问题:它们价格低,是因为公司本身很差吗?
But we've also got that question of do they have lower prices because they're crappy companies?
如果是这样,那它们就不是好的投资标的;还是说,它们虽然公司不错,但市场给的折现率更高?
In which case they're not good investment opportunities or is it because they have higher discount rates but are pretty good companies.
单靠价值因子来筛选的时候,这里面的干扰因素太多了。
There's a lot of noise in that when you just look at the single factor value sort.
但一旦引入盈利能力这个维度,就能更容易找出哪些公司的预期回报更高了。
When you introduce profitability, it's a lot easier to find which companies have high expected returns.
它们盈利高、价格低,这正是我们想要的组合。
They've got high profitability and low prices, which is the combination that you want.
单靠低价,即使不考虑盈利能力,也能让投资组合获得更高的预期回报。
Low prices without sorting on profitability are enough on their own to have higher expected returns as a single factor portfolio.
我觉得盈利能力也是类似的情况——真正理想的是那些盈利高又价格低的公司,这才是多因子的筛选方式。
I suspect it's something similar going on with profitability where you really want the high profitability companies with low prices and that's a multifactor sort.
如果你只看整体的盈利能力投资组合,可能还是能捕捉到足够多的这种效应,从而获得溢价。
If you just take the aggregate profitability portfolio, you're probably still picking up enough of that for there to be a premium.
我一直都是这么理解的。
That's the way I've always thought about it.
也许还有更好的方式来看待这个问题。
Maybe there are better ways to think about it.
我同意,这个说法确实没那么直观,尤其是如果你只从单一因子的角度去想的话。
I agree it is a less intuitive story, especially if you try and think about it from a single factor perspective.
一旦你叠加多个因子,因为很多公司可能在多个维度上都会呈现高低不同的分布。
And once you layer on the factors, because again, maybe most companies will sort high or low across multiple factors.
很多价值股的盈利能力其实也很强。
A lot of value stocks are probably high profitability as well.
正因如此,它们才被称为价值股,而不仅仅是便宜。
That's what makes them value as opposed to simply cheap.
价值股不只是价格低,而是价格相对于公司的盈利、资产等正面指标来说偏低。
A value stock is not just one with a low price, it's a low price relative to some positive characteristics in the company earnings, assets, whatever it is.
所以这些因素在很多情况下是重叠的。
So a lot of these are going to overlap.
因此,预期回报最高的公司,很可能在三个或更多这些因素上都表现突出。
So I mean, companies with the highest expected returns may score high on three or more of these factors.
在很多情况下,这些因素之间其实是负相关的。
In a lot of cases, they're going to be negatively correlated.
如果我们只看价值股组合,它的盈利能力通常会低于整个市场。
If we just take the portfolio value stocks, it's going to tend to be less profitable than the market as a whole.
公司规模也是如此,这就是为什么从多因子角度来分析如此重要。
Similar things can happen with company size, which is why taking that multi factor perspective ends up being so important.
因为如果你只看价值股,最终持有的投资组合会偏向低盈利性,而这种偏向的预期回报是负的。
Because if we just take value stocks, you end up with a basically low profitability tilt, which has a negative expected premium.
如果你能在价值投资的基础上,再通过盈利性筛选提升整体盈利水平,预期回报就会明显提高。
If you can take that value portfolio and bring the profitability characteristics up by also doing a profitability sort, then your expected return just goes up.
正因如此,当这些研究结果陆续出炉后,像Dimensional和Avantis这样的公司才特别重视把这些发现融入他们的策略中——稍后我们会更详细地讲到。
This is why as this research has come out, it's been so important for firms like Dimensional and Avantis who will talk more about in a second to incorporate that research.
你不想只是买一些便宜的股票,却根本不清楚它们为什么便宜。
Because you don't want to just own cheap stocks when you don't really know why they're cheap.
因为那些股票可能是质量很差的公司,你根本没必要持有它们。
Because maybe they're crappy companies and you don't actually want to own them.
如果你只靠单一因子做筛选,确实很容易碰到这种情况。
And I think you do get a lot of that if you just do the single factor sort.
但一旦你加入第二个因子,尤其是现在Dimensional已经调整了因子权重的计算方式,他们的Vector投资组合——在加拿大上市,同时提供加拿大和美国的基金——就明显更积极地偏向规模和价值因子。
But once you add in the second factor, you see that in especially now that they've changed the way that they're doing their weighting of the factors, dimensional in the vector portfolios, which are Canadian listed, well, have a Canadian and US funds that are pretty aggressively tilted towards size and value.
他们过去确实非常侧重规模和价值,后来才把盈利性因素也加了进去。
They used to be pretty aggressively tilted towards size and value and then took profitability into account.
但他们最近调整了方法,让规模、价值和盈利能力这三个因素的权重更加均衡。
But they fairly recently changed their methodology to have a much more sort of equal emphasis on size value and profitability.
如果看他们整体的投资特征,以前的向量组合比市场便宜很多,但盈利能力要么略低,要么和市场差不多,这本身已经很了不起了。
And when you look at their aggregate characteristics, it used to be that the vector portfolio would be way cheaper than the market, but also have a little bit lower profitability or similar profitability to the market, which was in itself pretty impressive.
因为如果你只按价值选股,最终得到的公司盈利能力会差很多。
Because if you just did the value sort, you'd end up with a much worse profitability characteristic.
而现在由于权重更均衡了,整体表现也更加平衡了。
And then now with more equal emphasis, it's even more balanced.
你必须主动决定如何权衡这些因素,因为如果简单地叠加越多因子,尤其是当它们彼此负相关时,最终很可能就变成了市场组合。
You need to make some kind of active decision about how you want to weight all of these factors because in a naive way, like the more factors you layer on, especially if they're negatively correlated, at some point you just end up with the market.
除非你打算大幅集中持仓,否则最终得到的投资组合和普通的市值加权指数不会有太大差别。
Unless you plan on concentrating the portfolio quite aggressively, you just end up with a portfolio that's not dramatically different from just a boring market cap weighted one.
所以你会看到它和普通指数高度相关,超额收益的机会变小了,但跑输市场的风险也相应收窄了。
So you're gonna see a lot of correlation with just a plain vanilla index and any opportunity for outperformance, but also risk of underperformance maybe gets narrowed.
除非你真有一套非常有力的组合方法,能把这些因子恰到好处地结合起来。
Unless you've got a really compelling formula for how to combine these in the right way.
这时候就看出本事了。
That's where the skill comes into.
你有研究数据。
You've got the research.
好的,这就是原材料。
Okay, that's the raw material.
那接下来该怎么用呢?
Now what do we do with it?
我觉得确实需要技巧。
I think there's skill.
同时也要保持谦逊。
There's also an element of humility.
Dimensional 和我觉得 Avantis 的做法很像,都是高度分散,但依然以市场因子为主。
The way that Dimensional and I think Avantis is similar, the way that they do this is very diversified and it is still dominated by the market factor.
由于这种极度分散的策略,它们对市场的跟踪误差也比较低。
And it's going to have relatively low tracking error to the market because they are taking that super broad diversification.
市场上有一些产品集中度高得多。
There are products out there on the market that are much more concentrated.
它们更偏向主动投资组合构建,通过建立集中但依然基于量化分析的组合。
They tilt much more toward the active portfolio construction by building concentrated portfolios that are still quantitatively informed.
你仍然可以把它们称为因子投资组合。
Like you could still call them factor portfolios.
我觉得很多产品名称确实自称为因子组合,但它们的集中度要高得多。
I think a lot of the product names actually do call themselves factor portfolios, but they're much more concentrated.
在这种情况下,你就像你提到的那样,对因子溢价下了更大的注。
In that case, you're making a much bigger bet on the premiums to your point Dan.
同时,你的跟踪误差会大得多,如果因子表现不如预期,跑输市场的风险也会更高。
You're also going have much more tracking error and you've also got much more risk of underperforming the market if the factors don't work out as expected.
像Dimensional这样的产品,我们还没怎么聊过,但听众们可能已经很熟悉了,它的表现和市场非常相似。
With something like Dimensional, which we haven't really talked about yet, although listeners are probably already familiar, you do look a whole lot like the market.
从我们的角度看,这反而是好事。
And from our perspective, that's a good thing.
对于那些追求极高信心、希望大幅跑赢市场的人来说,
From someone's perspective who wants you know, really high conviction or wants to really outperform the market.
他们可能觉得这并不是什么好事。
They might consider that not such a good thing.
我们对这些因子并没有那么强的信心,所以不会去构建只含25只股票、高度集中的多因子组合。
We don't have so much conviction in these factors that we want to build 25 stock portfolios that are as concentrated as possible in the multifactor sort.
我觉得说得对。
I think that's right.
到了某个阶段,你的组合确实会很像市场,因为你已经广泛分散了。
That at a certain point you do look a lot like the market because you're broadly diversified.
从我们的角度看,这其实是好事,但不是每个人都会这么想。
I think that's kind of a good thing from our perspective, but not everybody would necessarily agree with that.
对。
Yeah.
我觉得‘倾斜’这个词用得挺贴切的,因为它确实很微妙。
Think that's why the term tilt is apt because it's subtle.
这并没有从根本上偏离广泛分散的投资组合。
It's not an enormous fundamental move away from a broadly diversified portfolio.
我们其实是从一个前提出发的:分散投资本来就很棒,现在只是在边缘做一些微调。
It's sort of starting from the premise that a diversified portfolio is very good, and now we're just trying to tweak it around the edges.
这就像法玛那句著名的话:你得说服自己放弃市场组合。
It's like Fama's famous line that you've got to talk yourself out of the market portfolio.
这最终还是取决于你对这些细微调整到底有多大的信心。
That really comes back to how much conviction do you have in these kind of tilts.
值得一提的是,学术界和实务界至今仍在激烈争论:哪些因子真正有效,以及我们该采用哪种资产定价模型。
It is also worth mentioning that there's still tons of ongoing debate both in academia and in practice about which factors make sense and which asset pricing model we should be using.
Dimensional 和 Avantis 都在广泛使用法玛-弗伦奇五因子模型,以及这种整体思路。
Dimensional and Avantis as well are broadly using the Fama and French five factor model and that general approach and type of thinking.
但市场上还有大量其他竞争性的因子模型。
But there are tons of competing factor models.
各种竞争性的投资产品也多得数不清。
There are tons of competing products.
有些公司会开发自己独有的因子。
There are companies that have their own factors.
这远没有定论。
That's not like a settled debate by any means.
我觉得可以比较有把握地说,当考虑到交易成本时——这一点在学术界比较不同资产定价模型的文献中已经有人做过分析——
I'm pretty comfortable saying that when transaction costs are accounted for, which is something that has been done in academic literature that compares asset pricing models.
有一篇论文指出,一旦把交易成本算进去,法玛和弗伦奇的五因子模型表现得非常非常出色。
That there's one paper that shows that when you account for transaction costs, Fama and French's five factor model is really, really strong.
它为构建投资组合和评估组合表现提供了一个非常好的基础。
It's a very good foundation for thinking about portfolio construction and evaluating portfolio performance.
交易成本这个问题很重要,因为还有一个因子叫动量,实证上非常强势,而法玛和弗伦奇在他们的论文里对这个因子的态度一直挺有意思的。
That transaction cost things is important because another factor is momentum, which is very empirically strong and Fama and French have always kind of it's interesting reading their papers.
他们一直对它感到纠结。
They've always kind of struggled with it.
他们在一篇论文里提到,曾经在测试的资产定价模型中加入了动量因子,但明确说这是勉强加入的。
They say in one paper that they included momentum in an asset pricing model that they were testing, but they say that they include it reluctantly.
他们非常担心数据挖掘,担心仅仅因为某些因素看起来有效就随意添加,却没有理论依据。
They're very concerned about data mining and about adding factors just because without any sort of possible theoretical story.
有一篇论文比较了不同的资产定价模型,发现如果忽略交易成本,动量因子的表现会非常出色。
So there's one paper that compares different asset pricing models and shows that momentum can look really good when you ignore transaction costs.
但一旦考虑交易成本,不包含动量因子的法玛-弗伦奇模型反而显得更有优势。
But when you account for transaction costs, the Fama and French model without momentum starts to look a lot better.
是的。
Yeah.
动量一直是大家特别关注的话题。
Momentum is one of these things that's always famous.
它在理论上说得通。
It makes theoretical sense.
有很多数据表明,就像你说的,如果忽略交易成本,它的效果确实很吸引人,但问题是交易成本根本没法忽略。
There's a lot of data showing, like you said, if you ignore transaction costs, it's compelling, except you can't ignore transaction costs.
和其他那些偏向型投资组合不同,它们并不适合长期持有,而是需要定期调整。
And unlike these other tilted portfolios, which are pretty buy and hold, they will need reconstitution from time to time.
但动量因子通常涉及一到三个月的交易周期,到底谁在实际操作呢?
But the momentum factors are typically like one to three months trading cycles and they're like, who's implementing that?
如果你在操作,光是税务影响就够头疼的了。
And if you are, I mean, just the tax impact.
经纪佣金倒还好说,但频繁交易带来的税务负担,很可能把原本的收益都吃光了。
Brokerage fees are kind of not a thing, but certainly just the churning and the tax implications of that are likely gonna eat up any premium that was there.
所以动量策略在执行上比其他一些因子要难得多。
So hard to implement in a way that some of these other factors are not terribly difficult to implement.
相对而言,其他因子的换手率更低。
Relatively speaking, they're lower turnover.
它们也不算特别复杂。
They're not super complicated.
所有指标都挺直接的,但就连动量因子也有好几种衡量方式。
Like all the metrics are fairly straightforward, but even momentum like there are bunch of different ways you can measure it.
你根本不知道哪种衡量方法才是最好的。
You don't know which measure is the best one.
价值和盈利能力也是一样。
We can say the same thing for value and profitability too though.
这一领域的每个细节都还在激烈争论中。
There's still every layer of this is still hotly debated.
你随便找五个学者,他们各自都发表过论文,证明自己的价值或盈利能力衡量方法比别人更优。
You could go and find five different academics who have published papers on why their measure of value or their measure of profitability is better than everybody else's.
他们每个人都能拿出扎实的论据和充分的证据。
They would all have great cases and great evidence.
我特别喜欢一句话:每个博士背后,总能找到一个立场完全相反的博士。
One line that I love in this type of stuff is that for every PhD, there's an equal and opposite PhD.
你总能找到人跟你讲,他们的资产定价模型、因子或者产品才是最好的。
You can find me someone to tell me why their asset pricing model or their factor or their product is the best.
但我也能找到同样聪明、同样有资质的人来反驳他们。
And I can find somebody just as smart, just as qualified to disagree with them.
这行里挺有意思的一点。
One of the funny things about our space.
没人知道谁对谁错,得等三十年后才能看清。
And nobody will know if they're right until thirty years from now.
到时候我们回头一看,哦,原来那个人是对的。
And then we'll look back and say, oh yeah, well that guy was right.
但即便如此,我们还是不知道他们接下来三十年会不会继续对。
But then we won't know if they're going be right for the next thirty years.
确实如此。
That's so true.
我们这行挺有意思的。
We work in a funny space.
金融圈里的人随便说什么都行。
People in finance can just say stuff.
人们愿意相信他们,只是因为他们的说法听起来有道理。
People can choose to believe them because they have a good story.
但真正验证他们说的对不对,得等很多年以后。
But we won't know if what they're saying is right or true until many years in the future.
到那时候,大家 probably 早就忘了这场争论,转而去追下一个热门趋势了。
And everyone will have probably forgotten about the whole debate by then anyway and chased whatever new hot trend is out there.
没错。
That's right.
我想把话题拉回到实际应用上来。
I do want to bring this back to practical relevance.
我们刚才在讨论这些资产定价因子。
So we're talking about these asset pricing factors.
意思是说,这些因子可能带来更高的预期收益,投资者如果相信的话,可以适当偏向它们,从而提升股票组合的预期回报。
We're talking about the idea that they may have higher expected returns and that investors could potentially tilt toward them to increase the expected returns of their equity portfolio.
持有市值加权的市场组合,本质上就是让你暴露在市场风险溢价之下。
So owning the market capitalization weighted market is giving you exposure to the market risk premium.
但正如你所说,丹,如果你相信这些模型的判断,你也可以主动偏向其他因子,来提升预期收益。
But as you said, Dan, you can tilt toward other factors to potentially increase your expected returns, at least if you believe what these models suggest.
那么,具体该怎么做呢?
Now how do you do that?
个人想要通过选股来实现这一点,恐怕会很麻烦,也很困难,不值得这么做。
For an individual to do it by selecting individual stocks be probably kind of arduous and tricky and probably not worth it.
不过,有些基金公司正在利用这些研究成果,构建多元化的投资组合。
But there are fund companies that are using this research to build diversified portfolios.
它们有点像低成本的指数基金,但能让你获得超越市场风险的回报敞口。
They're kind of like low cost index funds that deliver exposure to more than just market risk.
严格来说,它们不算指数基金,因为并不跟踪某个指数。
They're usually not technically index funds because they don't track an index.
但从实际效果看,它们非常相似——分散度高、换手率低、费用低廉,等等。
But functionally, they're very similar, broadly diversified, low turnover, low cost, all that stuff.
Dimensional基金顾问公司在因子投资研究方面有着悠久的实践历史。
Dimensional fund advisors have a long history of implementing factor investing research.
他们在这些研究成果发表之前,就已经开始设计相关产品了。
They started building products before any of this research came out.
我记得他们第一个产品推出的时间,差不多就是那篇揭示规模异象的论文问世的时候。
I think their first product launched around the same time that the paper documenting the size anomaly came out.
Dimensional刚推出时,因子投资还不存在。
Factor investing wasn't a thing when Dimensional launched.
他们当时只是想做一个小盘股指数,虽然严格来说那根本不是指数。
They were just trying to build a small cap index basically, although it wasn't actually an index.
他们想打造一款小盘股产品,让机构投资者能用它来平衡自己通常偏向大盘股的投资组合。
They're trying to build a small cap product that institutions could use to complement their often large cap tilted portfolios.
后来学术研究陆续出来,而他们早就和学术圈建立了联系。
And then this academic research starts coming out and they already had the connections to the academic community.
随着新研究的发表,他们持续把这些成果应用到产品中。
They continued to implement the academic research as it came out.
他们最早是从规模因子开始的。
So they started with a size portfolio.
等到价值因子的研究出来后,他们也加入了价值策略,之后还持续纳入了盈利能力等其他因子。
They eventually started using value once that research started to come out, and they've continued to implement things like profitability.
他们确实有一套实现动量因子的方法,而且 turnover 并不高。
They do have a way of implementing momentum actually that's not super high turnover.
他们把这一点融入了自己的交易流程中。
They use it as part of their trading process.
他们一直紧密联系着这个理念的学术根源。
They're very connected to the academic roots of this idea.
尤金·法玛——我们提到的那篇论文的合著者之一——是公司的创始董事,至今仍在董事会任职。
Eugene Fama, one of the paper that we're talking about co authors, was a founding director and remains on the board today.
肯特·弗伦奇,另一位合著者,也与Dimensional有着长期的合作关系。
Kent French, other co author, has long standing connections to Dimensional.
从长期来看,Dimensional的投资业绩一直相当不错。
Dimensional's track record in the long run has been pretty good.
最近几年,他们在美國的表现有些吃力,因为那里的大盘成长股表现太强势了,而Dimensional恰恰避开了这类股票。
They struggled a bit recently in The US in particular because large cap growth has just done so well there and Dimensional tilts away from that.
但在国际市场,甚至在加拿大,他们的表现都很出色。
But in international markets and even in Canada, they've done pretty well.
不过有个限制是,很多年来,Dimensional的产品只通过理财顾问提供。
One catch is that Dimensional used to be only available through financial advisors for many, many years.
现在在美国市场,它们已经以ETF的形式推出了,不过加拿大还没有。
They're now available as ETFs in The US market, not in Canada though.
但最近发生的事是,Avantis这家公司的创始人,原本是Dimensional的老员工,他们离开后创办了这家竞争对手。
But what happened more recently is that Avantis investors, is a Dimensional competitor basically, who's some folks who had previously been at Dimensional for many years left and started this competitor called Avantis.
他们推出了类似的产品。
They launched similar products.
他们在Dimensional之前就率先在美国推出了ETF。
They launched ETFs in The US before Dimensional did.
就在几周前,他们和加拿大帝国商业银行合作,正式在加拿大推出了ETF。
And they have now just launched a few weeks ago when this episode comes out ETFs in Canada in partnership with CIBC.
我们今年三月曾邀请Avantis的首席投资官爱德华多·雷佩托来做客,他详细又生动地聊过这些加拿大产品。
And we did have the CIO of Avantis, Eduardo Repetto on this podcast back in March talking in lots of entertaining detail about those Canadian products.
我觉得以后我们可能会专门做一期,深入聊聊他们的加拿大产品。
I think we probably will do an episode at some point doing a deeper dive on their Canadian products.
我得顺便提一下,我们确实大量使用了Dimensional的基金。
I do want to mention real quick PWL, we do use Dimensional funds pretty extensively.
我们没有从Dimensional或Avantis那里拿过任何报酬。
We're not paid by Dimensional or Avantis.
在这期节目中提到它们,我们也没有收任何费用。
We're not being paid to mention them in this episode.
我们从来不搞这种操作。
We don't do that kind of thing.
那这对作为投资者的你来说意味着什么?
So what does this all mean for you the investor?
证据表明,长期的预期收益主要来自某些系统性的风险因子。
Evidence suggests that long term expected returns are driven by specific systematic exposures.
这些因子我们今天已经很清楚了,得益于几十年的学术研究,表明投资者可以通过偏向某些类型的股票来获得更高的预期回报。
Exposures that we know about today due to decades of academic research implying that investors may achieve higher expected returns by tilting toward certain types of stocks.
至于具体是哪些股票,以及如何高效、低成本地实现这一点,那就是另一回事了。
Which stocks and knowing how to do it effectively and efficiently at a low cost is a whole other kettle of fish.
但像Dimensional基金顾问和Avantis投资者这样的公司,正是在做这件事。
But there are fund companies like Dimensional Fund Advisors and Avantis investors that do that.
他们打造低成本、广泛分散的投资组合,专门用来实践我们刚才讨论的学术理论——多因子资产定价,并将其应用到实际投资中。
They create low cost broadly diversified investment portfolios that are specifically built to take the academic theory that we've been talking about, multi factor asset pricing and apply it to investment portfolios.
就像我开头说的,法玛和弗伦奇的这篇开创性论文,构成了我投资思维的重要基础。
So like I said at the beginning of this episode, this seminal paper from Fama and French really forms the foundation for a big part of how I think about investing.
正如我之前提到的,这也是我最终加入PWL的原因之一。
As I mentioned earlier, it's part of how I arrived at PWL.
同样,PWL资本自2003年帮Dimensional进入加拿大以来,一直使用他们的产品,这也是原因之一。
And it's also part of the reason that PWL Capital has been using Dimensional since we helped bring them to Canada back in 2003.
那又是另一个故事了。
That's a whole other story.
当年卡梅伦和几位同事读到拉里·斯威德罗关于这方面的文章,觉得挺有意思,后来就和Dimensional搭上了线。据说中间还有个挺有意思的事儿,大卫·布思当年特地来加拿大见PWL的人。
That was like Cameron and a few other folks came across Larry Swedroe's writing on this stuff and thought that was pretty cool and ended up getting connected with Dimensional and ended up I think there's a funny story in there somewhere about David Booth came to Canada to talk to PWL.
他们差点儿把我们给拒了,因为我们有个研究部门。
And I think they almost shut us down because we had a research department.
他们以为我们搞的是个股研究,但其实不是,完全不是。
And then they assumed that that meant that it was like individual security research and like, no, no, no.
我们并不想跟你们合作。
We don't want to partner with you guys.
但他们后来发现,我们用的是指数基金,不是那种个股研究。
But then they kind of figured out that we were using index funds, and it wasn't that kind of research that we were doing.
那时候,PWL还没那么大。
Back then, I mean, PWL was not that big.
今天,要是有家大型基金公司说‘好吧’,我一点都不意外。
Today, it wouldn't surprise me if a big fund company said, okay.
他们会认真听你的意见,如果是一家美国大公司,说不定还会把产品引入加拿大。
You know, we're gonna listen to what you have to say, and maybe if this is a big US company, maybe bring the product to Canada.
但在2003年,PWL还是一家很小的公司。
But in 2003, it was a pretty small company.
在那之前,PWL就已经从选股转向了传统的指数基金投资。
PWL sort of transitioned from being stock pickers to traditional index fund investing before that.
但即便在2003年,加拿大市场上也几乎没有适合想做基础指数基金投资的人的产品。
But even in 2003, there wasn't a whole heck of a lot of product out there for people who wanted to do even the most basic index fund investing in Canada.
那时候还处于非常早期的阶段。
So that was really early days.
要是能亲耳听听那些讨论,肯定特别有意思。
It would have been fun to have been in those rooms and heard those discussions.
我敢打赌,肯定有不少精彩的故事。
Oh, I'm sure there are some cool stories.
我以前还真没怎么深入细讲过这些事。
That's something I've never really tried to camera in too much detail about.
我知道大概的来龙去脉,但确实,里面肯定藏着不少有意思的事。
I know the kind of the broad strokes of the story, but yeah, I'm sure there's some neat stories in there.
你说得对。
You're right.
我没见过他们当年用的那些模型,但我知道他们用了一些在美国上市的小盘价值型ETF来获取因子敞口。
I haven't seen the models that they were using back then, but I know they were using some US listed small cap value ETFs to get some factor exposure.
他们用的应该是些指数基金,我猜多半是指数型共同基金。
They're using some index funds, probably some index mutual funds, I would imagine.
我觉得那时候这些产品更常见一些。
I think those were a little bit more common.
那时候是iShares吗?
Was it iShares at that point?
我想应该是Jeez。
I guess it was Jeez.
对。
Yeah.
巴克莱。
Barclays.
那是最初的加拿大所有者。
That was the original Canadian owner.
所以九十年代末,加拿大确实已经有ETF了,但选择非常少。
And so, like, in the late nineties, yeah, there was some ETF availability in Canada, but the pickings were pretty slim.
当时你能买到的产品种类很有限。
You didn't have a whole lot of flexibility with what you were buying.
如果听众想了解我们如何把这种思路应用到PWL客户的投资组合中,我们做过一期节目,专门聊了我和丹在这方面的一些不同看法。
So if listeners want to learn more about how we apply this thinking to our clients portfolios at PWL or not, We did an episode on discussing how Dan and I think about that a little bit differently.
你可以在节目简介里找到链接,预约和PWL的同事聊一聊。
You can use the link in the episode description to book a time to chat with one of our folks here at PWL.
好了。
All right.
关于那篇改变一切的金融论文,我们的讨论就到这里。
That concludes our discussion on the finance paper that changed everything.
接下来进入节目后半段。
Let's go to the after show.
今天咱们只有一条听众留言。
I think we just have one review in there today.
不过挺长的。
It's a long one though.
Dan,你来念一下吧?
Do you want to read it, Dan?
我今天话可真不少。
I did a lot of talking today.
好的。
Alright.
我们先念一下免责声明吗?
Do we need to read this disclaimer first?
对,对,说得对。
Oh, true, true, true.
我来念免责声明。
I'll do the disclaimer.
你来念评论吧。
You can do the review.
这个安排不错。
That sounds good.
我们收到一条来自苹果播客的评论,需要在SEC规定下朗读。
We have a review from Apple Podcast to read under SEC regulations.
根据证交会的规定,我们必须披露这条评论是否由客户留下,是否支付了直接或间接的报酬,以及是否存在与该评论相关的利益冲突。
We are required to disclose whether a review, which may be interpreted as a testimonial was left by a client, whether any direct or indirect compensation was paid for the review or whether there are any conflict of interest related to the review.
通常评论都是匿名的,包括这一条。
As reviews are generally anonymous including this one.
是的。
Yep.
来自澳大利亚的戴夫。
Dave Down Under.
这确实是个匿名名字。
That is anonymous indeed.
也可能是他的真名。
Could be his real name.
有可能。
It could be.
我们无法判断评论者是否为客户,也无法披露任何相关的利益冲突。
We are unable to identify if the reviewer is a client or disclose any such conflicts of interest.
他们也在澳大利亚?我表示怀疑。
They're also in Australia, I highly doubt.
要是的话,我们早该知道了。
I think we would know.
不太可能是我们的客户。
Unlikely to be our clients.
对。
Yes.
那好吧。
So, all right.
这是那条评价。
Here's the review.
上面说,投资问题已经解决了。
It says, investing has been solved.
这个播客改变了我对金钱的看法。
How this podcast changed my money mindset.
这个播客彻底改变了我对投资、金钱以及许多其他事情的看法。
This podcast has completely changed how I think about investing, money, and many other things.
从小就被灌输投资就是赌博,但这个播客用扎实、理性又有趣的内容让我明白,事实根本不是这样。
Having been told that investing is always gambling growing up, this podcast has shown me that this does not need to be the case by providing evidence based level headed and entertaining content.
虽然有些集数更侧重加拿大市场,但其中的原则对全球任何个人投资者都适用。
While some episodes are more Canada focused than others, the principles can be applied by any retail investor around the world.
我特别喜欢本和他的搭档、嘉宾们一再强调:投资本质上早就有了标准答案,大多数人只是问错了问题。
I especially like when Ben, his co hosts and guests show over and over again that investing has basically been solved and most people simply ask the wrong questions.
我确实持有一个全球分散、按市值加权的指数基金组合,还稍微做了一些因子倾斜,但更重要的是,我为自己制定了一套财务计划——虽然说起来挺简单的。
I do hold a globally diversified market cap weighted index fund portfolio with a slight factor tilt, but more importantly, I've created my own financial plan, admittedly a pretty straightforward situation.
从明确目标开始,到建立一套能长期坚持的投资理念,再到模拟各种可能的结果,算出我需要存多少钱、能承受和愿意承担哪些风险,才能实现未来的支出目标,这一切让我对自己的决策充满信心。
Starting with defining goals over creating an investment philosophy that I can stick with to eventually modeling outcomes to figure out the required savings rate, the risks I'm able, willing and need to take along the way to meet my future spending goals has made me very confident in my decision making.
我有软件工程的背景,作为租房族,自从四年前半开始投资以来,我从未错过一次定投,反而一直稳步提高投入金额,没让生活成本的膨胀拖后腿。我也特别喜欢那些讨论租房和买房的节目。
Software engineering background helps As a renter who has not missed a single DCA contribution since I started investing four and a half years ago, and in fact has managed to increase contributions consistently instead of letting lifestyle creep win, I also love the episodes about the rent versus buy decision.
虽然没能让我的朋友们相信我买房不是傻瓜行为,但话说回来,也不可能人人都认同啊。
Not that it has convinced any of my friends that I'm not a complete idiot by buying a property, but Hey, you can't win them all.
感谢你付出的所有努力,来自澳大利亚的戴夫·唐·安德森在 iTunes 上向你们致以最美好的祝福。
Thank you for all your work and all best wishes from the land down under from Dave Down Understand from Australia on iTunes.
这评论真不错。
Very nice review.
看来戴夫确实认真听了。
It seems like Dave has been paying attention.
他可能是那种在几周内把全部四百集都回听了一遍的人。
It sounds like he's maybe one of these people have gone back and listened to all 400 episodes over the course of a few weeks.
我们之前也听说过有几个人这么做过。
We've been talking or hearing about a few people who have done that.
这可真是一场漫长的旅程。
That is quite a marathon.
是啊,确实如此。
Yeah, it is.
太惊人了。
It is wild.
我们这次没提那篇论文的名字。
We never said the name of the paper that we talked about in this episode.
我们会把它放在缩略图里之类的,讲的是股票和债券的共同风险因素。
We'll put it in the thumbnail or something, but it's common risk factors and the returns on stocks and bonds.
这篇论文改变了世界,现在你知道它叫什么了。
It changed the world and now you know what it's called.
这就对了。
There we go.
好了。
Alright.
还有别的吗,丹?
Anything else, Dan?
没有。
No.
没问题了。
We're good.
好的。
Alright.
感谢大家收听。
Thanks everyone for listening.
下次见。
See you next time.
大家好。
Hey, everyone.
我是制作人马特。
It's producer Matt.
非常感谢您收听本期节目。
Thank you so much for tuning in to this week's episode.
在结束之前,来听听大家期待的免责声明。
Before we sign off, here's the disclaimer you've been waiting for.
在加拿大,投资组合管理与经纪服务仅由PWL Capital提供,该公司受加拿大投资监管组织监管,并是加拿大投资者保护基金的成员。
Portfolio management and brokerage services in Canada are offered exclusively by PWL Capital, which is regulated by the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization and is a member of the Canadian Investor Protection Fund.
在美国,投资咨询服务仅由One Digital Investment Advisors LLC提供。
Investment advisory services in The United States Of America are offered exclusively by One Digital Investment Advisors LLC.
One Digital和PWL Capital是关联公司,两家合作得相当默契。
One Digital and PWL Capital are affiliated entities, and they mostly get on really well with each other.
但每家公司只对其自身的金融产品和服务承担财务责任。
However, each company has financial responsibility for only its own products and services.
本内容不构成任何证券买卖的要约或邀请。
Nothing herein constitutes an offer or solicitation to buy or sell any security.
我们偶尔会提醒大家别买那些烂投资,但这不等于建议你去抛售它们。
Occasionally, we tell you not to buy crappy investments in the first place, but that's not the same thing as telling you to sell them.
本沟通材料仅用于信息参考目的。
This communication is distributed for informational purposes only.
文中信息来源于我们认为可靠的渠道,但未必完全准确。
The information contained herein has been derived from sources believed to be truthy, but not necessarily accurate.
我们确实很认真地在做,但无法提供任何保证。
We really do try, but we can't make any guarantees.
即使我们说的都没什么原则性错误,也可能只是部分真相。
Even if nothing we say is fundamentally wrong, it might not be the whole story.
此外,本内容不应被视为投资、税务或法律建议。
Furthermore, nothing herein should be construed as investment, tax, or legal advice.
虽然我们称这个播客是帮你每周认清理性投资和财务决策的现实,但你做实际决定时别真靠我们,只适合拿来假设性地参考。
Even though we call the podcast your weekly reality check on sensible investing and financial decision making, you shouldn't rely on us when making actual decisions, only hypothetical ones.
不同类型的投资和策略风险程度不同,并不是每个人都适合。
Different types of investments and investment strategies have varying degrees of risk and are not suitable for all investors.
你应该咨询专业顾问,看看这些信息如何适用于你个人的情况。
You should consult with a professional adviser to see how the information contained herein may apply to your individual circumstances.
也有可能完全不适用。
It might not apply at all.
说实话,大部分内容你其实可以当没看见。
Honestly, you can probably ignore most of it.
所有提到的市场指数都不含管理费,也无法间接投资,这挺遗憾的,因为要是能投的话简直太棒了。
All market indices discussed are unmanaged, do not incur management fees, and cannot be invested indirectly, which is a shame because it would be awesome if you could.
所有投资都伴随着风险,可能赔钱、睡不着觉、掉头发,甚至丢面子。
All investing involves risk of loss, including loss of money, loss of sleep, loss of hair, and loss of reputation.
本内容绝不构成任何特定收益或回报的保证。
Nothing herein should be construed as a guarantee of any specific outcome or profit.
过去的表现并不能代表或保证未来的成果。
Past performance is not indicative of or a guarantee of future results.
要是能的话,多伦多枫叶队的球迷日子可就轻松多了。
If it were, it would be much easier to be a Leafs fan.
本节目中所有陈述和观点均属主持人或嘉宾个人意见,仅基于本节目首次发布时的情况。
All statements and opinions presented herein are those of the individual hosts and or guests and are current only as of this communication's original publication date.
如果这些观点后来都被推翻了,也不用觉得意外。
No one should be surprised if they have all since recanted.
One Digital 和 PWL Capital 都没有义务在情况变化后更新这些陈述或观点。
Neither One Digital nor PWL Capital has any obligation to provide revised statements and or opinions in the event of changed circumstances.
我们下次再见。
See you next time.
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