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Sep 17, 2024 | Wharton’s Jacobs Levy Center to Investigate AI in Finance at Annual Conference | |
Press Release, September 17, 2021: The Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research will explore the potential impact of artificial intelligence on the financial sector at its annual conference on Friday, September 20, at Jon M. Huntsman Hall on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus... in Philadelphia. The conference will hear presentations from scholars discussing recent advances in the application of AI to return prediction and feature a keynote session with Nobel laureate Robert Shiller and Wharton Professor Emeritus Jeremy Siegel. “Generative artificial intelligence is an exciting new technology with great promise,” said Bruce Jacobs, chair of the Jacobs Levy Center Advisory Board. “The insights from our distinguished speakers will help our industry adapt and benefit.” read more +view article |
Jul 01, 2024 | Portfolio Insurance, Portfolio Theory, Market Simulation, and Risks of Portfolio Leverage | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs and Kenneth N. Levy, Journal of Portfolio Management, Special Issue Dedicated to Harry Markowitz, July 2024: Bruce Jacobs and Ken Levy recall their decades-long working relationship with Nobel laureate Harry Markowitz, which began when Harry took an interest in Bruce’s efforts to debunk portfolio insurance... Harry adopted Bruce and Ken’s methodology for estimating security expected returns using cross-sectional analysis, and Bruce and Ken used Harry’s methods for portfolio construction. The three went on to collaborate on numerous projects, including exploring the value of using constraints in portfolio optimization, addressing the optimality and optimization of long-short portfolios, and developing JLMSim, an asynchronous, discrete-time, dynamic market simulator. Later, Bruce and Ken extended Harry’s portfolio theory to account for the unique risks of leverage through their mean-variance-leverage model. Bruce and Ken used the mean-variance-leverage model to address the optimal amount of leverage in 130-30-type portfolio strategies. The article delves into their collaborations and highlights how they drew inspiration from each other. read more + |
Jul 01, 2024 | The Birth of Portfolio Theory | |
by Frank J. Fabozzi, Bruce I. Jacobs, and Kenneth N. Levy, Journal of Portfolio Management, Special Issue Dedicated to Harry Markowitz, July 2024: The introduction to this special issue dedicated to Nobel laureate Harry Markowitz, co-edited by Frank Fabozzi, Bruce Jacobs, and Ken Levy, recalls the immense impact of... Harry’s foundational portfolio theories on the investing world, and describes how his insights continue to guide and shape portfolio management today. In recounting his many accomplishments in multiple fields of inquiry, the authors also highlight the affection he inspired from his colleagues and collaborators through his warmth, encouragement and support, and insatiable curiosity. read more + |
May 22, 2024 | Reflections from a Graduating Jacobs Scholar: Q&A with Zachary Long | |
Frontier of Finance, May 22, 2024: When Bruce Jacobs established the Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs Scholars in Quantitative Finance with a generous donation in 2020, he was hoping to create a program that supported the interests and endeavors of Wharton MBA students majoring in Quantitative Finance... Zachary Long, who is graduating from the Wharton School in May 2024 as a Jacobs Scholar, has accepted an investment industry job in corporate development. “I am confident that Zachary’s experience as a Jacobs Scholar has prepared him well for the exciting opportunities ahead as he embarks on his career,” Jacobs says. Long agrees and credits the program with opening doors to the business and operations side of investment management and with providing recruiting opportunities he would not have had otherwise. He also said that his status as a Jacobs Scholar provides credibility in the workplace. read more + |
Mar 28, 2024 | Nobel Prize-Winning Expert on Behavioral Economics Daniel Kahneman Dies at 90 | |
by Palash Ghosh, Pensions & Investments, March 28, 2024: Bruce Jacobs remembers Daniel Kahneman as “a cognitive psychologist who gave birth to a thriving branch of economics based on human behavior rather than on standard expected utility theory.” Jacobs, who is quoted extensively in a remembrance of Kahneman’s Nobel Prize-winning career, said that Kahneman “found that when forced to make complex decisions in... uncertain situations, people were not coolly calculating rational agents. Rather, they tended to rely on heuristics—mental shortcuts and rules of thumb. Kahneman found that people could be irrational in systematic ways.” Their systematic behavior “could be incorporated into a forecasting framework,” Jacobs noted, “an insight that gave birth to the field of behavioral economics.” read more + |
Mar 25, 2024 | Bruce I. Jacobs’s Remarks in Tribute to Harry M. Markowitz at the JOIM Spring Conference | |
Spring JOIM Conference, The Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego, March 25, 2024: Bruce Jacobs was among a group of colleagues and friends of Harry Markowitz who paid tribute to the late Nobel laureate at the JOIM spring conference in San Diego. Bruce delivered two sets of remarks... In his first talk, “Collaborating with Harry Markowitz: A Remembrance,” Bruce recounted how early correspondences about his work debunking portfolio insurance led to Harry agreeing to write a foreword to Bruce’s book, Capital Ideas and Market Realities: Option Replication, Investor Behavior, and Stock Market Crashes. Harry would subsequently also provide forewords to Bruce and Ken Levy’s books, Equity Management: Quantitative Analysis for Stock Selection and Equity Management: The Art and Science of Modern Quantitative Investing. Bruce, Ken, and Harry collaborated in creating a financial market simulator, JLMSim, and engaged in a spirited debate about Bruce and Ken’s mean-variance-leverage model, an extension of Harry’s mean-variance model. In a second talk given during the conference’s afternoon session, titled “Harry Markowitz Celebration of Life,” Bruce offered some personal recollections about Harry, noting that he was “a master at thinking about how to think about problems.” read more + |
Mar 01, 2024 | Factor Investing Paper Wins Top Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Award | |
by Rob Kozlowski, Pensions & Investments, March 1, 2024: The Best Article for the 25th Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards was awarded to “Fact, Fiction, and Factor Investing” by Michele Aghassi, Cliff Asness, Charles Fattouche, and Tobias J. Moskowitz. The authors evaluate a variety of claims about factor... investing, confirming some and rebutting others. The article finds that factors receiving the most attention in academia are those based on solid theory and strong in-sample statistical significance. Bruce Jacobs, principal and co-founder of Jacobs Levy Equity Management, said “the authors are to be commended for sifting through the many claims about factor investing and presenting an assessment of its benefits and drawbacks.” All articles that appeared in the Journal of Portfolio Management from 2023 were eligible for the award and were voted on by subscribers. read more + |
Dec 01, 2023 | Too Smart for Our Own Good by Bruce Jacobs – Translated into Chinese | |
Bruce Jacobs’s book, Too Smart for Our Own Good: Ingenious Investment Strategies, Illusions of Safety, and Market Crashes, has been translated into Chinese by China Machine Press. |
Oct 09, 2023 | Harvard Professor Wins Nobel Prize in Economics for Research on Women | |
by Palash Ghosh, Pensions & Investments, October 9, 2023: Claudia Goldin of Harvard was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics “for collecting and interpreting two centuries of data that have revealed the factors that affect women’s opportunities in the labor market and contribute to gaps in pay that exist to this day,” Bruce Jacobs said... In tracing women’s earnings and workforce participation over such an extended period, Goldin’s research highlighted “the role of parenthood in explaining the pay gap between women and men, which remains at 10% to 20% in high-income countries, even as women have equaled and surpassed men’s educational levels,” Bruce added. read more + |
Oct 02, 2023 | Bruce I. Jacobs’s Remarks in Remembrance of Harry M. Markowitz at the Q Group Fall 2023 Seminar | |
Q Group Fall Seminar, Arizona, October 2, 2023: Bruce Jacobs recalled his and Ken Levy’s collaborations with Harry Markowitz on projects including the optimization of long-short portfolios and the creation of a financial market simulator during his remarks at the Memorial for Harry Markowitz. Bruce also expressed his appreciation... to Harry for his insights in the foreword to Bruce’s book, Capital Ideas and Market Realities: Option Replication, Investor Behavior, and Stock Market Crashes, and in Bruce and Ken’s books Equity Management: Quantitative Analysis for Stock Selection, and its second edition, Equity Management: The Art and Science of Modern Quantitative Investing. In the forewords for the latter two books, Harry discussed how we “build upon each other’s research.” One such example is Harry’s paper responding to Bruce and Ken’s articles exploring mean-variance-leverage optimization, which is an extension of Harry’s mean-variance optimization. In Bruce’s concluding remarks, he said, “Harry, you will be missed—your love of learning, your lifelong dedication to the field, and your knowledge creation. Your legacy will live on for generations.” |
Sep 25, 2023 | Pete Kyle Wins 2023 Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize for Trading Model | |
by Rob Kozlowski, Pensions & Investments, September 25, 2023: Albert S. “Pete” Kyle is the recipient of the 2023 Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize for Quantitative Financial Innovation for his research on market microstructure. The award recognizes Kyle for his 1985 paper, “Continuous Auctions and Insider Trading,”... which introduced a model of informed trading that has been widely adopted in academia as well as by traders. Erika James, Dean of the Wharton School, called Kyle’s paper “groundbreaking in that it substantially enhanced understanding of the functioning of financial markets for academic researchers and financial practitioners.” read more + |
Aug 16, 2023 | Japan's GPIF Lays Groundwork for More Active Management | |
by Douglas Appell, Pensions & Investments, August 16, 2023: Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund has awarded a mandate to Jacobs Levy Equity Management, selected through a process that used quantitative, data-driven screens of manager skill. As of March 2023, the account size was reported as $1.56 billion. |
Jul 11, 2023 | Harry Markowitz: An Appreciation | |
by John Guerard, Wilmott Magazine, July 11, 2023: In John Guerard’s tribute to Harry Markowitz (Part II), he reviews the longstanding, collaborative relationship between Bruce Jacobs and Ken Levy and Markowitz, which included the development of the JLM Market Simulator and an examination of the optimization of portfolios with short positions... John also notes that Bruce and Ken extended Markowitz’s mean-variance optimization model to include a term that captures the unique risks of leverage. Bruce and Ken were great friends of Harry for decades and their collaboration produced four articles. read more +view article |
Jun 26, 2023 | Harry M. Markowitz, Father of Modern Portfolio Theory, Dies at 95 | |
by Rob Kozlowski, Pensions & Investments, June 26, 2023: Reflecting on Harry Markowitz’s contributions, Bruce Jacobs said “Markowitz’s insights into the relationship between risk and return transformed investment management and continue to shape how trillions of dollars are invested.”... Harry “showed us how to construct investment portfolios on the ‘efficient frontier,’ where it is possible to achieve the maximum expected return for any given level of expected risk.” Bruce also noted some of Markowitz’s many achievements, including popularizing the practice of investment diversification, creating the SIMSCRIPT programming language for computer simulations, and co-creating the Jacobs Levy Markowitz Market Simulator. Bruce said he “never stopped searching for practical solutions to complex problems.” read more +download PDF |
Jun 06, 2023 | Igniting Minds, Transforming Markets: Jacobs Scholars Impact at Wharton and Beyond | |
Wharton Impact, June 6, 2023: Over the past three years, 30 Wharton MBA students majoring in quantitative finance have been selected as Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs Scholars in Quantitative Finance, benefitting from a program established in 2020 with a generous donation from Bruce Jacobs. The success of the program shows that... the current Jacobs Scholars are a diverse group that came to quantitative finance from a variety of disciplines. As Bruce acknowledges, “I am pleased to see that my original vision for the Jacobs Scholars as a cross-disciplinary program is coming to fruition. This year’s cohort of Scholars has experience and training in fields as diverse as neurobiology, physics, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, and applied mathematics.” Bruce recognizes that as new technologies such as generative artificial intelligence emerge, Jacobs Scholars and other quants “will be at the forefront of harnessing those technologies to produce better outcomes for their clients and communities.” read more +view article |
Feb 03, 2023 | 5 Experts Win Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Award for Paper on Market Impact Costs of Trading | |
by Rob Kozlowski, Pensions & Investments, February 3, 2023: Subscribers to the Journal of Portfolio Management voted “Quantifying Long-Term Market Impact,” by Campbell R. Harvey, Anthony Ledford, Emidio Sciulli, Philipp Ustinov, and Stefan Zohren, as the Best Article in the 24th Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards... The article discusses the importance of considering market impact costs when assessing strategy performance and offers a simple method for analyzing more complex trades where there is autocorrelation in the orders. Bruce Jacobs, principal and co-founder of Jacobs Levy Equity Management, notes that “despite the rise in computer-assisted, high-turnover strategies, most academic research papers continue to ignore the market-impact costs of trading. The authors of this paper provide a welcome focus on the issue, as well as a useful method for measuring long-term impact costs.” read more + |
Jan 31, 2023 | Russell Investments Canada Launches Tax-Managed Investment Solutions for Canadian Investors | |
Business Wire, January 31, 2023: Russell Investments’ Tax-Managed US Equity Pool includes Jacobs Levy Equity Management as one of the U.S. equity sub-advisers. view article |
Jan 11, 2023 | Japan’s GPIF Reveals Active Foreign Equities Manager Lineup | |
by Natalie Koh and Douglas Appell, Pensions & Investments, January 11, 2023: Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund has awarded Jacobs Levy Equity Management a mandate. |
Oct 10, 2022 | Bernanke, 2 Economics Professors Share Nobel Prize for Studies of Financial Crises | |
by Rob Kozlowski, Pensions & Investments, October 10, 2022: Former Federal Reserve Chair Ben S. Bernanke and economics professors Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig were recognized for “the scientific underpinnings of banks’ critical role as financial intermediaries and the catastrophic consequences to society when they fail,” said Bruce Jacobs... “The insights of all three laureates played a prominent role in banking legislation that emerged after the 2008-09 crisis.” These new regulations “improved the resilience of the banking system and allowed it to avoid a major calamity during the pandemic, although it did leave behind an inflation problem,” adding that their insights helped “ensure that recent crises, including the economic disarray caused by the pandemic in 2020, did not turn into long-term economic depressions.” |
Sep 13, 2022 | 2 Win Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize for Paper on Momentum Investing | |
by Rob Kozlowski, Pensions & Investments, September 13, 2022: Pensions & Investments covered the awarding of the 2021 Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize for Quantitative Financial Innovation to Narasimhan Jegadeesh and Sheridan Titman for their research on momentum investing. Bruce Jacobs, Chair of the Prize Selection Committee,... recognized that Jegadeesh and Titman’s paper represented a significant advancement for the investment industry in providing strong evidence against the efficient market hypothesis. “They documented a factor of considerable strength and robustness that could be harnessed by skilled practitioners for the benefit of investors,” Bruce said. read more + |
Jun 28, 2022 | Columbia Threadneedle Hires Jacobs Levy to a Multi-Manager Fund | |
by Nicole Piper, CityWire.com, June 28, 2022: Columbia Threadneedle has added Jacobs Levy Equity Management as a subadvisor to the Columbia Multi-Manager Small Cap Equity strategy. |
Mar 01, 2022 | The Challenge of Disparities in ESG Ratings | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs and Kenneth N. Levy, Journal of Impact and ESG Investing, Spring 2022: Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations play an increasingly important role in investment decisions. Vendors of ESG data, however, lack a common framework for creating ESG ratings. As a result,... their ratings show substantial disparities for the same company, making it difficult to assess whether the ratings are truly aligned with companies’ ESG performance. This article highlights the nature and sources of the ESG rating disparities and urges investors to be aware of them. Despite noisy ESG ratings, disentangling may be suitable for assessing the efficacy of multidimensional ESG data in the presence of other characteristics impacting stock returns. read more +download PDF |
Feb 01, 2022 | Experts Win Top Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Award for Paper on Inflation | |
by Rob Kozlowski, Pensions & Investments, February 2, 2022: “The Best Strategies for Inflationary Times” by Henry Neville, Teun Draaisma, Ben Funnell, Campbell R. Harvey, and Otto Van Hemert won Best Article in the 23rd Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards, as voted by subscribers to the Journal of Portfolio Management... The article examines newly resurgent inflationary risks for portfolio managers based on the authors’ historical analysis of active and passive strategies across multiple asset classes and markets over the past 95 years. “This timely guidance is welcomed as portfolio managers face the unfamiliar territory of high inflation,” said Bruce Jacobs, principal and co-founder of Jacobs Levy Equity Management. “The authors’ analysis of the history of high inflation episodes provides a wealth of information and insights.” read more + |
Nov 01, 2021 | Research on ESG Returns Wins Jacobs Levy Center Prize | |
by James Comtois, Pensions & Investments, November 1, 2021: The Wharton School’s Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research awarded its annual Best Research Paper Prize to Lubos Pastor, Robert Stambaugh, and Lucian Taylor for their paper, “Dissecting Green Returns,”... which attributed the recent success of green assets to increasing environmental concerns and cautions that the premium could diminish if environmental concerns ease. “The implications are important for the investment community while it asserts that green stocks have performed better than brown stocks (environmentally unfriendly stocks) over the last decade, they may now be (too) pricey, so investors should not expect that they will provide the same premium going forward,” said Bruce I. Jacobs, chair of the Jacobs Levy Center’s Advisory Board. Jacobs added, “For Wharton and the Center, this paper is an example of the quality of the papers produced by the faculty at the school. Not only is this good empirical research, but it’s also very topical.” read more + |
Oct 11, 2021 | 3 Share Nobel Economics Prize for Work Using Natural Experiments | |
by James Comtois, Pensions & Investments, October 11, 2021: David Card of U.C. Berkeley, Joshua D. Angrist of MIT, and Guido W. Imbens of Stanford were recognized for their “innovative use of natural experiments to study difficult-to-answer questions about cause and effect,” noted Bruce Jacobs, adding that the winners... “searched for situations in which chance events and changes in institutional rules and policies create groups of people who are treated differently, setting up what amounts to natural clinical trials.” read more + |
May 03, 2021 | Jessica Wachter Named SEC Chief Economist and Director of the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis | |
Press Release, May 3, 2021: The Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs Chair of Quantitative Finance at the Wharton School, Dr. Jessica Wachter, has been appointed Chief Economist and Director of the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis at the SEC. view article |
May 01, 2021 | Factor Modeling: The Benefits of Disentangling Cross-Sectionally for Explaining Stock Returns | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs and Kenneth N. Levy, Journal of Portfolio Management, May 2021: More than three decades ago, Bruce Jacobs and Ken Levy introduced the idea of disentangling stock returns across numerous firm characteristic factors. Some years later, an alternative factor model proposed by Fama and French made use of time-series... factors based on portfolio sorts (examples of these time-series factors include the return differences between small- and big-capitalization stocks and between high- and low-book-to-price stocks). Recently, Fama and French found that the cross-sectional approach using firm characteristics is better able to explain stock returns than the time-series approach based on portfolio sorts. In this article, Jacobs and Levy compare the two models and discuss the benefits of the cross-sectional approach for investment management. read more +download PDF |
Mar 04, 2021 | Book Review: Too Smart for Our Own Good | |
by Nick Ronalds, CFA Institute Enterprising Investor, March 4, 2021: Reviewer Nick Ronalds said the core thesis of Bruce Jacobs’s book Too Smart for Our Own Good: Ingenious Investment Strategies, Illusions of Safety, and Market Crashes “should be taken to heart not only by investment professionals but by all investors... Free-lunch promises, complexity, opacity, and excessive leverage have too often combined to toxic effect. Financial professionals in particular could benefit greatly from studying the market crises analyzed in this book and the key lessons to be drawn from them.” Ronalds also chronicled Jacobs's long history of pushing back against flawed investment theories, noting his head-to-head debates with the creators of portfolio insurance in the 1980s, his 1999 book Capital Ideas and Market Realities: Option Replication, Investor Behavior, and Stock Market Crashes, and his role in creating the National Institute of Finance, a predecessor of the Financial Stability Oversight Council. read more +view article |
Feb 02, 2021 | Experts on ESG, Factor Performance Win Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Award | |
by Rob Kozlowski, Pensions & Investments, February 2, 2021: Subscribers of the Journal of Portfolio Management recognized two articles as Best Article for the 22nd Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards: “Divergent ESG Ratings” by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton, and “Alpha vs. Alpha: Selection, Timing, and Factor Exposures from Different Factor Models” by Ananth Madhavan, Aleksander Sobczyk, and Andrew Ang... “Dimson, Marsh, and Staunton’s article provides valuable information for institutional investors seeking to incorporate environmental, social, and governance concerns into their portfolio selection process,” said Bruce Jacobs, principal and co-founder of Jacobs Levy Equity Management. Jacobs added that Madhavan, Sobczyk, and Ang’s winning article “adds to our understanding of factor performance in active portfolios.” read more + |
Oct 14, 2020 | Stanford Professors Win Nobel Award for Research on Auctions | |
by James Comtois, Pensions & Investments, October 14, 2020: Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson were awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on auction systems. In the article, Bruce Jacobs observes that “their insights have been applied around the world to the sale of everything from airport... landing slots to government bonds.” Jacobs added that “with Lawrence Glosten, Milgrom applied work on auction markets to explain how market makers create a bid-ask spread (different prices for buyers and sellers) to recoup losses from trades with informed traders who may have superior information.” read more + |
May 04, 2020 | An Interview with Bruce I. Jacobs | |
An Interview with Bruce I. Jacobs, Principal, by Portfolio Management Research, May 4, 2020: Bruce Jacobs discusses the key research concepts that serve as the foundation of Jacobs Levy Equity Management’s investment practice, including disentangling equity factors, smart beta vs. smart alpha, integrated long-short portfolios, introducing the idea of 130-30 portfolios, is 130-30 the right amount of leverage, financial market simulation, his book co-authored with Ken Levy, Equity Management: The Art and Science of Modern Quantitative Investing, and his two books on market crises, Capital Ideas and Market Realities: Option Replication, Investor Behavior, and Stock Market Crashes and Too Smart for Our Own Good: Ingenious Investment Strategies, Illusions of Safety, and Market Crashes. He also recounts the origins of the Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards, which recently celebrated their 20th anniversary. https://youtube.com/embed/kxnxaOcaIvQ Bruce Jacobs Interview view video
Portfolio Management Research New York City Interviewed February 2020 Released May 2020 |
Apr 20, 2020 | Why Free-Lunch Strategies Cause Market Crashes | |
Interview with Bruce I. Jacobs, Knowledge@Wharton, April 20, 2020: Bruce Jacobs discusses how some quantitative financial products contributed to past financial crises and have increased market instability in the current pandemic crisis. “It’s critical for investors, executives, and regulators to understand the types of... instruments and strategies created by quantitative finance, because some of these can have systemic implications,” he said. Jacobs also talks about some potential solutions, including explicit consideration of leverage risk in portfolio formation and financial market simulation modeling. read more +view article |
Apr 03, 2020 | Wharton — the Prestigious Business School that Minted Stock-Pickers Like Warren Buffett, Steve Cohen, and Joel Greenblatt — is Rolling Out the Red Carpet for Quants | |
by Dan DeFrancesco and Bradley Saacks, Business Insider, April 3, 2020: An $8 million gift from Wharton alumnus Bruce Jacobs helped establish a quantitative finance major within its prestigious MBA program. According to the university, graduates will be well-suited for jobs in quantitative asset management and trading, financial engineering, risk management, and applied research. download PDF |
Apr 02, 2020 | Wharton to Offer Quant MBA Major With $8 Million Alumnus Gift | |
by Amanda L. Gordon, Bloomberg News, April 2, 2020: An $8 million gift from Bruce Jacobs will support the establishment of a quantitative finance major at the Wharton School by funding an endowed professorship and creating $25,000 tuition awards for highly-qualified second-year students starting next year... “When I started out, quantitative finance wasn’t a profession,” Jacobs said. “Now much of finance is quantitative, and it’s important that business leaders, regulators and the heads of Wall Street houses have a basic understanding of it.” Wharton Dean Geoffrey Garrett said in an interview, “This is really about the fusion of high-end analytics and finance that Bruce’s biography speaks to.” The article also notes a previous gift of $12 million to the Wharton School from Jacobs and Ken Levy to establish a center focused on quantitative research, which supports dissertations, and awards a prize for research. read more +download PDF |
Apr 02, 2020 | Wharton Awarded $8 Million to Establish Quantitative Finance Major | |
by Rob Kozlowski, Pensions & Investments, April 2, 2020: A gift of $8 million from Bruce Jacobs will establish the Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs Professorship in Quantitative Finance and $25,000 awards to select second-year MBA students who pursue a newly established quantitative finance major at Wharton... Students who receive the award will form a group of Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs Scholars in Quantitative Finance who will be invited to network with industry leaders at the Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Annual Conference. Jacobs notes that “Wharton's commitment to the future of finance inspired me to deepen my support of students and the faculty who will enrich future generations of leaders and the broader economy.” read more +download PDF |
Apr 02, 2020 | New Quantitative Finance Major and Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs Professorship and Scholars Mark New Chapter in Quantitative Finance Research and Education at the Wharton School | |
Press Release, April 2, 2020: Dean Geoff Garrett of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania announced that the MBA program at Wharton is launching a new quantitative finance major within the Finance Department. New courses will be bolstered by a gift from Wharton alumnus Bruce I. Jacobs, which will underwrite the establishment of the Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs Professorship in Quantitative Finance and the Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs Scholars in Quantitative Finance... The Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs Professorship in Quantitative Finance will support the appointment of faculty who are experts in quantitative finance. The Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs Scholars in Quantitative Finance is an academic award dedicated to exceptional students entering their second year of the Wharton MBA program and majoring in quantitative finance. These students will form an elite group of Jacobs Scholars focusing on applying financial economics to security pricing and asset management. |
Apr 02, 2020 | With $8M Gift, Wharton Creates A New MBA Finance Major | |
by Marc Ethier, Poets & Quants, April 2, 2020: The Wharton School announced a new quantitative finance major and professorship in the MBA program, funded with an $8 million gift from Bruce Jacobs, a Wharton Ph.D. alumnus. Part of the $8 million gift will be used to establish the Jacobs Scholars program... which will support an elite group of high-achieving second year MBA students majoring in quantitative finance. The article recognizes Jacobs as “a major voice for financial transparency for 35 years.” Jacobs is “a pioneer and innovator in connecting academic research with investment management,” said Wharton Dean Geoff Garrett, “and we are honored that he is making this bold new step in his immense ongoing support of the school.” Jacobs stated: “I can think of no better time for this initiative as we face new economic, health, and markets issues that will shape the world economy for decades.” read more +download PDF |
Mar 03, 2020 | The 20th Anniversary Celebration of the Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Award | |
Portfolio Management Research, March 3, 2020: Portfolio Management Research has released a highlight video and full video of the 20th anniversary celebration of the Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards that took place in New York City in November 2019. The event celebrated the success of the Awards, which recognize the best articles to appear in the Journal of Portfolio Management each year. A host of key industry professionals and academics attended, and presenting were Bruce Jacobs, Ken Levy, Frank Fabozzi, Cliff Asness, Andrew Lo, and Meir Statman. The evening culminated with a presentation to the winners of the 20th Annual Bernstein Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards. https://www.youtube.com/embed/RVjHCBAwG18 The 20th Anniversary Celebration of the Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards view highlight videoNew York, NY November 21, 2019 https://www.youtube.com/embed/1pbZDMizaHk The 20th Anniversary Celebration of the Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards view full video
New York, NY November 21, 2019 |
Mar 03, 2020 | Quant Experts Win Top Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Award | |
by Rob Kozlowski, Pensions & Investments, March 3, 2020: Tarun Gupta and Bryan T. Kelly won the Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy award for Best Article, based on voting by Journal of Portfolio Management subscribers. The authors’ article, “Factor Momentum Everywhere,” documents momentum behavior in 65 global... characteristic-based equity factors and shows individual factors can be reliably timed based on recent performance. Bruce Jacobs, principal and co-founder of Jacobs Levy Equity Management, notes that the authors’ “finding that equity factors experience momentum that's complementary to individual stock momentum adds significantly to the literature of quantitative finance.” read more + |
Jan 27, 2020 | Nationwide Fund Advisors Hires Jacobs Levy as the Subadvisor for NVIT Jacobs Levy Large Cap Growth Fund | |
Jacobs Levy began serving as the subadvisor to the Fund. Jacobs Levy also manages small cap and 130-30 strategies for Nationwide. |
Jan 21, 2020 | Bruce Jacobs Interview, “Jacobs Levy: The Art and Science of Investing” | |
Davos 2020, TBD Media, January 2020: This interview, conducted by veteran TV news anchor and foreign correspondent Andrew Wilson, appears on CBS News online. Bruce Jacobs explains the firm’s approach to investing, which combines the art that comes from intuition and experience with the science that comes from rigorous quantitative methods. He also describes 130-30 long-short and absolute return strategies, discusses the integration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles into the investment process, and cautions investors about certain aspects of today’s markets. Bruce notes that “we measure our success not by our assets under management, but by our performance for our clients.” https://www.youtube.com/embed/v_5_6lTUta4 Bruce Jacobs Interview view video
"Jacobs Levy: The Art and Science of Investing" Davos 2020, TBD Media January 2020 |
Oct 15, 2019 | MIT, Harvard Professors Awarded Nobel Memorial Prize for Novel Poverty Studies | |
by James Comtois, Pensions & Investments, October 15, 2019: On the awarding of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer, Bruce Jacobs notes that “the laureates’ work has had a profound effect on how development economics is pursued and has had direct effects on policy, including remedial support for schools in India and free distribution of medicine.” |
Sep 26, 2019 | Why a 1968 Paper Still Influences Modern Asset Management | |
Knowledge@Wharton, September 26, 2019: The Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize for Quantitative Financial Innovation was awarded on Friday, September 27, to Ray Ball and Philip Brown, for their influential work linking stock prices to accounting data, outlined in their paper “An Empirical Evaluation of Accounting Income Numbers,” published in the Journal of Accounting Research in 1968... The biennial prize recognizes outstanding quantitative research that has contributed to an important innovation in finance. Bruce Jacobs, chair of the prize selection committee, noted that Ball and Brown’s article “opened the door to new methods of conducting empirical research in finance and, ultimately, innovations in the practice of finance.” Ken Levy, Jacobs Levy Center Advisory Board member, added that their “finding that abnormal returns continued in the expected direction even after the announcement of earnings was the first reported evidence of anomalous behavior in the context of the efficient market hypothesis.” Ball is the Sidney Davidson distinguished service professor of accounting at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Brown is a senior honorary research fellow in accounting and finance and emeritus professor at the University of Western Australia. The prize was presented at the annual conference of Wharton’s Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research. read more +view article |
Sep 16, 2019 | Wharton-Jacobs Levy Quant Prize to Honor 2 Accounting Professors | |
by Rob Kozlowski, Pensions & Investments, September 16, 2019: Ray Ball and Philip Brown will receive the Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize for Quantitative Financial Innovation at the annual conference of Wharton’s Jacobs Levy Center for Quantitative Financial Research, to be held in New York City on September 27... Ball and Brown’s seminal 1968 paper, “An Empirical Evaluation of Accounting Income Numbers,” was the first quantitative study of the relationship between accounting income and stock prices. Bruce Jacobs, chair of the prize selection committee, noted that their research “ignited a revolution in accounting and capital markets research.” Ball is the Sidney Davidson distinguished service professor of accounting at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Brown is a senior honorary research fellow in accounting and finance and emeritus professor at the University of Western Australia. read more + |
Sep 12, 2019 | Nationwide Hires Jacobs Levy for a New Account | |
by Kayla Provencher, CityWire.com, September 12, 2019: Nationwide has hired Jacobs Levy Equity Management to serve as a subadvisor for its NVIT Multi-Manager Small Cap Value fund. This is the second account Jacobs Levy is managing for Nationwide. view article |
Sep 01, 2019 | Too Smart for Our Own Good | |
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2019: “Too Smart for Our Own Good explores the strategies and products behind financial crises, focusing on portfolio insurance in the 1980s, arbitrage strategies pursued by Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) in the 1990s, and the mortgage-linked securities of the 2007-08 crisis. The book considers free-lunch products and highlights strategy characteristics that foster market fragility, effective regulatory reform, and warning signs.” |
Aug 23, 2019 | Ohio Public Employees Makes Small-Cap Hire | |
fin|news, August 23, 2019: The Ohio Public Employees Retirement System has hired Jacobs Levy Equity Management to manage approximately $115 million for their small-cap core strategy fund. |
May 21, 2019 | Too Smart for Our Own Good by Bruce Jacobs – Best Free Audiobook Summary | |
by Audiobook Master, YouTube, May 21, 2019: The Audiobook Master YouTube channel summarizes Too Smart for Our Own Good: Ingenious Investment Strategies, Illusions of Safety, and Market Crashes, focusing on three insights: how three recent financial crises reveal what’s wrong in finance and investing; what delusions and errors in judgment the investors in these schemes shared; and why “free-lunch” investing strategies often lead to financial disruption. Included in the YouTube post are excerpts of readers’ reviews from the book’s page on Amazon. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Hdi1wAxXX-I view video
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May 21, 2019 | UC Berkeley Haas School’s Mark E. Rubinstein Dies at 74 | |
by Rob Kozlowski, Pensions & Investments, May 21, 2019: Bruce Jacobs is quoted at length, crediting Rubinstein with “significant contributions to the theory and practice of quantitative finance,” notably in his work with John Cox and Stephen Ross on the binomial option pricing model. Jacobs also said he owed a debt to Rubinstein for... “piquing my own interest in market stability and, in particular, the interaction of financial innovations (such as portfolio insurance) and market prices.” read more + |
Apr 22, 2019 | Too Smart for Our Own Good | |
Book Review by getAbstract, April 22, 2019: “Bruce Jacobs offers some hard-hitting wisdom gleaned from his detailed knowledge and experience in market investing. Fund managers and investors of all types will find value in his exploration of the common causes of financial calamities.” getAbstract rates the book a 9 (out of 10) in Importance. view article |
Mar 01, 2019 | 20th Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards | |
Journal of Portfolio Management, March 2019: The Journal of Portfolio Management has announced the recipients of the 20th Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards. Best Article was awarded to Meir Statman for “Behavioral Efficient Markets.” Outstanding Article winners were Lionel Martellini and Vincent Milhau;... Clifford Asness, Todd Hazelkorn, and Scott Richardson; and Campbell R. Harvey, Edward Hoyle, Russell Korgaonkar, Sandy Rattray, Matthew Sargaison, and Otto Van Hemert. read more + |
Mar 01, 2019 | Behavioral-Finance Expert Takes Top Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Award | |
by Rob Kozlowski, Pensions & Investments, March 1, 2019: “Behavioral Efficient Markets” by Meir Statman was voted Best Article of 2018 by Journal of Portfolio Management subscribers. Statman’s winning article discusses competing versions of the efficient market hypothesis and explains how behavioral finance makes positive... contributions to discussions about market efficiency. “Meir is a luminary in the field of behavioral finance, and I am delighted that the readers of the Journal of Portfolio Management are among the many who have recognized his accomplishments,” said Bruce Jacobs, principal and co-founder of Jacobs Levy Equity Management. read more + |
Feb 25, 2019 | A Decade Later, What We Still Have to Learn About Market Crises | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs, McGraw-Hill Business Blog, February 25, 2019: Many of the underlying causes of the 2007-2008 financial crises have destabilized markets in the past and could do so in the future, Jacobs said in an article highlighting the thesis of his new book, Too Smart for Our Own Good: Ingenious Investment Strategies, Illusions of Safety, and Market Crashes... The common threads running through these crises are products and strategies that claim to make investing safer, but have the potential to interact in damaging ways with investor psychology. Despite their purported safety, such products and strategies have actually increased risk by creating conditions that give rise to financial storms. read more +view article |
Jan 21, 2019 | Jack Bogle Remembered for Imprint on Investing | |
by Danielle Walker, Pensions & Investments, January 21, 2019: Bogle, a lifelong advocate of index investing was “no fan of the offshoots,” noted Bruce Jacobs. Bogle believed that exchange-traded funds “encouraged speculation,” and that smart beta funds were “‘stupid’ and not true index funds.” Jacobs added that Bogle... “never wavered from his single-minded focus on the mathematics of index funds, which he said could be calculated by a second grader: gross return minus costs equals an investor's return. Anything that increased cost or obscured the simplicity of that formula drew his enmity.” read more + |
Jan 09, 2019 | UBS Hires Jacobs Levy | |
StreetInsider.com, January 9, 2019: UBS Asset Management has appointed Jacobs Levy Equity Management to serve as a subadvisor for its small/medium company growth fund. view article |
Dec 12, 2018 | Jacobs, Too Smart for Our Own Good | |
by Brenda Jubin, Reading the Markets, December 12, 2018: In her review of Bruce Jacobs’s book, Too Smart for Our Own Good: Ingenious Investment Strategies, Illusions of Safety, and Market Crashes, Jubin notes that Jacobs “recognizes that the crash-inducing strategies and products of the future will be different from those that... caused problems in the past. He remains convinced, however, that they will share the same fundamental characteristics. Forewarned is forearmed.” read more +view article |
Nov 27, 2018 | Steamrollers, Geniuses and Market Crashes | |
by Christopher Faille, AllAboutAlpha, November 28, 2018: This review of Bruce Jacobs’s new book, Too Smart for Our Own Good: Ingenious Investment Strategies, Illusions of Safety, and Market Crashes, notes that “Jacobs’ book is a thoughtful review of the incidents it covers, making vivid some matters which have faded a bit in history, and giving context to matters that remain all too vivid.” view article |
Oct 08, 2018 | Professors Get Nobel Award for Climate Change Analysis in Economics | |
by James Comtois, Pensions & Investments, October 8, 2018: In regard to the works of William D. Nordhaus and Paul M. Romer, the 2018 Nobel laureates, Bruce Jacobs notes that: “Investors obviously have an interest in sustainable economic growth, as it underpins the robustness of the stock market. Romer’s work may enable them to discern the effects of policy choices on idea innovation, which can provide an edge in investment decision-making, while Nordhaus’ work holds obvious appeal for socially responsible investors.” |
Oct 01, 2018 | What We Still Have to Learn from the Credit Collapse (and Other Market Crises) | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs, Journal of Portfolio Management, Fall 2018: Investment strategies and products that promise high returns and low risk, such as the mortgage-backed securities at the heart of the credit-market collapse 10 years ago, can attract substantial investment and encourage leverage. In this editorial based on his book,... Too Smart for Our Own Good: Ingenious Investment Strategies, Illusions of Market Safety, and Market Crashes, Bruce notes:“When the risk reduction relies on the ability to shift risk, these products can pose problems because the ability to shift risks to other investors is often based on an illusion of liquidity. This illusion is enhanced when opacity and complexity obscure the true nature of the risk and is often dispelled when the products contain explicit or implicit trigger points calling for sudden changes in investment behavior. At that point, the result can be large-scale liquidations of leveraged assets at fire-sale prices, inducing a crash.” read more +download PDF |
Sep 25, 2018 | What Causes Financial Crises? | |
Knowledge@Wharton, September 25, 2018: A panel at the Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Annual Conference, held in New York City in September, discussed the credit crisis of 2007-2008 and precursors. In a discussion titled “Financial Markets, Volatility, and Crises: A Decade Later,” Bruce Jacobs, a panelist, noted that... one common characteristic of recent crises was the presence of “strategies that promise to make investing safer.” Jacobs warned that products that offer a high reward and the expectation of lower risk, which he referred to as the “illusion of safety,” often result in crowded trades that can disrupt markets. read more +view article |
Sep 18, 2018 | GuideStone Hires Jacobs Levy | |
by Andrew Jones, CityWire.com, September 18, 2018: GuideStone Funds, the nation’s largest Christian-screened mutual fund family, has hired Jacobs Levy Equity Management as a subadvisor for its small-cap equity fund. view article |
Aug 20, 2018 | Lending, Leverage, Options and the Credit Crisis 10 Years Later | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs, Pensions & Investments, August 20, 2018: This issue, which is focused on the topic of the global financial crisis a decade later, contains a commentary by Bruce entitled “Lending, Leverage, Options and the Credit Crisis 10 Years Later.” The thesis of the editorial mirrors that of his book, Too Smart for Our Own Good: Ingenious Investment Strategies, Illusions of Safety, and Market Crashes.... Bruce notes that a decade after the crisis, many of its underlying causes, including opaque and complex financial products, leverage, the potential for sharp swings in value, and “free lunch” strategies which promise high returns with low risk, continue to threaten market stability. read more +download PDF |
Jun 01, 2018 | The Legacy of Stephen A. Ross | |
by Frank J. Fabozzi, Bruce I. Jacobs, and Kenneth N. Levy, Journal of Portfolio Management, Special Issue Dedicated to Stephen A. Ross, June 2018: This introduction to a special issue dedicated to Stephen A. Ross notes that Ross’s work on the arbitrage pricing theory (APT) opened the door to multifactor... models of asset returns. Bruce and Ken’s own work, “Disentangling Equity Return Regularities: New Insights and Investment Opportunities” (Financial Analysts Journal, 1988), revealed numerous return factors in the U.S. equity market. read more +download PDF |
May 28, 2018 | Hirings: Montana Board of Investments | |
Pensions & Investments, May 28, 2018: The Montana Board of Investments has hired Jacobs Levy to manage $170 million in domestic large-cap partial long/short equity. |
May 01, 2018 | Equity Management: The Art and Science of Modern Quantitative Investing, 2nd Edition (a review) | |
by Marc L. Ross, Financial Analysts Journal, Second Quarter 2018: Jacobs and Levy "have compiled a highly readable, entertaining, and well-informed collection of articles on the history and development of the quantitative techniques of stock selection," says reviewer Marc L. Ross,... who also comments that the “work provides fodder and invaluable insight for the professional equity investor” and highlights the book's 12 pages of praise and critical acclaim from investment management luminaries. read more +view article |
Jan 30, 2018 | Affiliated Research, Vanguard Execs Win Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Award | |
by Rob Kozlowski, Pensions & Investments, January 30, 2018: “King of the Mountain: The Shiller P/E and Macroeconomic Conditions” by Robert Arnott, Denis Chaves, and Tzee-man Chow has been named Best Article for the 19th Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards as voted by Journal of Portfolio Management... subscribers. The authors’ findings that moderate levels of inflation and real interest rates coincide with the highest average valuation multiples, “are an important contribution to the literature,” said Bruce Jacobs, principal and co-founder of Jacobs Levy Equity Management. “They will cause many investment experts to reconsider the widespread assumption that stocks fare best when inflation and interest rates are at rock bottom.” read more + |
Jan 01, 2018 | 19th Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards | |
Journal of Portfolio Management, Winter 2018: “King of the Mountain: The Shiller P/E and Macroeconomic Conditions” by Robert Arnott, Denis Chaves, and Tzee-man Chow has won top honors in the 19th Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards... Journal of Portfolio Management subscribers named it Best Article to appear in the publication during 2017. The authors’ findings that moderate levels of inflation and real interest rates coincide with the highest average valuation multiples, “are an important contribution to the literature,” said Bruce Jacobs, principal and co-founder of Jacobs Levy Equity Management. “They will cause many investment experts to reconsider the widespread assumption that stocks fare best when inflation and interest rates are at rock bottom.” read more + |
Dec 01, 2017 | To Remain Current and Relevant | |
by Rhea Wessel, CFA Institute Magazine, December 2017: Ken Levy is interviewed upon completing 30 years of continuing education after achieving the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. “For me, life is continuing education and that pertains professionally as well,” explains Ken, who served on... the CFA Institute Curriculum Committee for three years. “To remain current and relevant in any profession, you need to continually be learning.” read more +download PDF |
Oct 09, 2017 | Richard Thaler, Famed for ‘Nudge' Theory, Wins Nobel Economics Prize | |
by Rob Kozlowski, Pensions & Investments, October 9, 2017: Bruce Jacobs notes in this article that Thaler, one of the founders of behavioral finance, “documents the many shortcuts humans take when confronted with more information than can be processed quickly. These shortcuts can explain why... stock prices reflect investor fads and herd instincts rather than cool calculation, leading to phenomena such as momentum bubbles and subsequent crashes.” Additionally, Bruce comments “models that assume investors act rationally can be blindsided by irrational markets because they fail to account for investor biases.” read more + |
Oct 01, 2017 | Equity Management: The Art and Science of Modern Quantitative Investing, 2nd Edition (a review) | |
by Christopher Faille, The Federal Lawyer, October/November 2017: Bruce Jacobs’s discussion of the origins of the 2008-2009 financial crisis offers “a very valuable brief introduction to the subject and the literature,” writes Faille. He also notes that the founding father of quantitative finance, Nobel... laureate Harry Markowitz, provided two forewords for this second edition, as Jacobs and Levy bridged theory and practice. read more +view article |
Sep 01, 2017 | A First-Class Catastrophe: The Road to Black Monday, The Worst Day in Wall Street History | |
by Diana B. Henriques, Henry Holt, September 2017: The book chronicles the events leading up to the 1987 stock market crash. It refers to Bruce Jacobs’s “prescient” 1983 Prudential memo warning that portfolio insurance could have a “snowball effect” on market prices and mentions his 1986 debate... with portfolio insurance provider Leland O'Brien and Rubenstein (LOR). It also cites Jacobs's book Capital Ideas and Market Realities: Option Replication, Investor Behavior, and Stock Market Crashes and his Financial Analysts Journal article “Risk Avoidance and Market Fragility.” read more + |
Aug 22, 2017 | Jacobs, Levy, and Markowitz on Portfolios | |
by Christopher Faille, AllAboutAlpha, August 22, 2017: The author reviews the “new and considerably thickened edition of Jacobs and Levy’s classic collection of articles,” Equity Management: The Art and Science of Modern Quantitative Investing, with a Foreword by Harry Markowitz. view article |
Jun 01, 2017 | A History of the United States in Five Crashes: Stock Market Meltdowns that Defined a Nation | |
by Scott Nations, HarperCollins, 2017: In his recounting of five significant stock market crashes — in 1907, 1929, 1987, 2008, and 2010 — Nations credits Bruce Jacobs with foreseeing the effects that portfolio insurance would have on equity markets in the crash of 1987. According to... Nations, “Early in 1983, … Bruce Jacobs … pointed out several problems with portfolio insurance. … The problems included higher fees, inferior long-term performance, and, distressingly, worry that ‘if a large number of investors utilized the portfolio insulation technique, price movements would tend to snowball. Price drops would be followed by sales, which would lead to further price depreciation.’” read more + |
May 29, 2017 | The Largest Managers of Low-Volatility Equity Strategies | |
Pensions & Investments, May 29, 2017: Jacobs Levy ranks 15th among managers of U.S. institutional tax-exempt low-volatility equity strategies. |
Mar 06, 2017 | Stephen A. Ross, Father of Arbitrage Pricing Theory, Dies at 73 | |
by Rob Kozlowski, Pensions & Investments, March 6, 2017: Ross “was a brilliant theorist and sought-after adviser who never lost sight of the need for practical solutions to real problems,” said Bruce Jacobs. “Over four decades, he produced a number of influential theories and models that have become integral to finance as it operates today.” |
Mar 01, 2017 | MIT Professor Wins Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards | |
by Rob Kozlowski, Pensions & Investments, March 1, 2017: “What Is an Index?” by Andrew W. Lo was voted Best Article of 2016 by Journal of Portfolio Management subscribers. The article discusses new index-based investment products and Lo’s thoughts on how risk should be managed for passive strategies. Lo “dug deeply... into what, on its surface, appeared to be a simple, commonplace financial product, and he found a host of cutting-edge issues that deserve our attention,” said Bruce Jacobs, principal and co-founder of Jacobs Levy Equity Management. read more + |
Jan 01, 2017 | 18th Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards | |
Journal of Portfolio Management, Winter 2017: "What Is an Index?" by Andrew W. Lo was voted best article of 2016 by Journal of Portfolio Management subscribers. Lo "dug deeply into what, on its surface, appeared to be a simple, commonplace financial product, and he found a host of cutting-edge issues that deserve our attention,”... said Bruce Jacobs, principal and co-founder of Jacobs Levy Equity Management. read more + |
Jan 01, 2017 | A Man For All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market | |
by Edward O. Thorpe, Random House, 2017: Thorpe, a mathematician and investor, discusses his efforts in the 1980s to use financial characteristics of companies to forecast stock prices. Upon attending a presentation by Bruce Jacobs and Ken Levy at UC Berkeley in 1986, Thorpe discovered that... independently Bruce and Ken had been thinking along similar lines. He notes that Bruce and Ken went on to manage billions of dollars. read more + |
Nov 01, 2016 | NJ Gives at Third Annual Great Oak Awards | |
by Maryrose Mullen, New Jersey Monthly, November 2016: At the Great Oak Awards dinner on September 19, Jacobs Levy Equity Management was one of 10 companies honored by New Jersey Monthly for their exceptional support of worthy causes including local arts as well as medical and education efforts. At the ceremony,... Bruce Jacobs noted of the firm’s support for local arts organizations: “With these programs, we can help foster creativity in young children and a proclivity in the arts, and allow them to express themselves and help with their self-realization.” read more + |
Oct 10, 2016 | Harvard, MIT Professors Win Nobel Prize in Economics for Research on Contract Theory | |
by Barry B. Burr, Pensions & Investments, October 10, 2016: Bruce Jacobs said the work of Harvard’s Oliver Hart “illuminates the link between corporate finance decisions and corporate governance,” while the research of MIT’s Bengt Holmström “suggests that one way agents can be motivated to work in the interests of principals... is to tie their remuneration to signals that provide reliable information about their actions.” read more + |
Aug 01, 2016 | Hats Off to New Jersey’s Most Generous Companies | |
New Jersey Monthly, August 2016: Jacobs Levy Equity Management was chosen by New Jersey Monthly as a finalist for their Great Oak Awards. The Awards recognize New Jersey-based companies for their contributions to the state’s social and charitable causes and non-profits. |
May 13, 2016 | Jack Treynor, Who Pioneered Modern Investment Theory, Dies at 86 | |
by Bloomberg and Barry Burr, Pensions & Investments, May 13, 2016: Regarding Treynor, who wrote extensively on a wide variety of scholarly topics and was an editor of the Financial Analysts Journal, Bruce Jacobs noted, “Everyone in quantitative finance today owes a debt to Jack Treynor.” He added: “Jack had incredible... insights about the markets and models and helped bring quantitative finance into practical application.” read more + |
Jan 01, 2016 | 17th Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards | |
Journal of Portfolio Management, Winter 2016: “Backtesting” by Campbell R. Harvey and Yan Liu was named the best article to appear in the Journal of Portfolio Management in 2015 by the journal’s subscribers. Bruce Jacobs, principal and co-founder of Jacobs Levy Equity Management, said Harvey and Liu “continue to contribute... vital insights into a very important issue: how to tell if the findings obtained from research ‘in the lab’ will hold up to deliver like results in the real world.” read more + |
Oct 16, 2015 | Bruce I. Jacobs’s Keynote Remarks at Harry M. Markowitz XXV Nobel Prize Anniversary Celebration, “The Journey of Modern Portfolio Theory: Past, Present, and Future" | |
The Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego, October 16, 2015: Bruce Jacobs was the keynote speaker on the topic “Future Projections of Modern Portfolio Theory” at an event commemorating the 25th anniversary of the awarding of the Nobel Prize in economic sciences to Harry Markowitz. Bruce called Modern Portfolio Theory “a revolutionary way of thinking about the problem of investment uncertainty,” and discussed his and Ken Levy's research on incorporating the unique risks of leverage into portfolio optimization and their collaboration with Markowitz on developing the Jacobs Levy Markowitz financial market simulator. https://www.youtube.com/embed/mi_hefn1ScY view videodownload PDF
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Oct 12, 2015 | Princeton Academic Wins Nobel Prize in Economics | |
by Barry B. Burr, Pensions & Investments, October 12, 2015: Princeton Professor Angus Deaton, whose work links income and consumption to capital formation and business cycles, “has drawn together micro- and macroeconomics, with significant practical implications for economic policy in developed and developing... nations,” said Bruce Jacobs. read more + |
Jul 27, 2015 | Assessing the Impact of Dodd-Frank 5 Years Later | |
Pensions & Investments, July 27, 2015: Bruce Jacobs is quoted extensively on where the industry stands today vis-à-vis the regulations passed in the aftermath of the financial crisis. He notes that “regulations can have unintended consequences,” such as pushing financial activity toward less regulated and less transparent... corners of the industry, and that, further, “the next financial crisis is as likely to arise outside the banking sector as inside it.” Nevertheless, he asserts, “certain aspects of the law [such as moving trading of over-the-counter derivatives to clearinghouses] may benefit institutional investors.” read more +download PDF |
May 05, 2015 | Smart Beta Doesn’t Look That Smart to Some U.S. Stock Investors | |
by David Wilson, Bloomberg.com, May 5, 2015: In an article highlighting the variability of smart beta index performance, the author quotes from Bruce Jacobs and Ken Levy’s article, “Smart Beta: Too Good to be True?” appearing in the Journal of Financial Perspectives, July 2015: “A constant exposure to a factor regardless of... underlying conditions leaves a portfolio vulnerable when that factor underperforms, as it inevitably will.” read more +download PDF |
Jan 01, 2015 | 16th Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards | |
Journal of Portfolio Management, Winter 2015: Subscribers chose “Evaluating Trading Strategies” by Campbell R. Harvey and Yan Liu as the best article to appear in the Journal of Portfolio Management in 2014. “This year’s winning article addresses an issue that is at the core of all financial modeling—separating the wheat from the... chaff,” said Bruce Jacobs, principal and co-founder of Jacobs Levy Equity Management. “Armed with important new insights from this article, researchers will be able to better evaluate new investment models.” read more + |
Nov 12, 2014 | World Too Complex for Smart Beta | |
by James Saft, Reuters, November 12, 2014: Columnist Saft quotes extensively from a forthcoming Financial Analysts Journal editorial, “Investing in a Multidimensional Market,” by Bruce Jacobs and Ken Levy, who observe that smart beta strategies assume a stock market in which a few chosen factors produce persistent returns... “This assumption is not a good approximation of what is observed in reality,” they warn. read more +download PDF |
Oct 13, 2014 | French Academic Awarded Nobel Prize in Economics | |
by Barry B. Burr, Pensions & Investments, October 13, 2014: Bruce Jacobs says that Jean Tirole, this year’s honoree, “has enriched economic theory by creating models that better reflect the complexity of real-world practice and thus provides more effective guidance for the regulation of economic and financial systems.” |
Sep 15, 2014 | Smart Beta Might Not Live Up to Its Promises | |
by Barry B. Burr, Pensions & Investments, September 15, 2014: Smart beta strategies “exhibit all the characteristics of a great fad,” says Bruce Jacobs, adding that fads “can lead to unwelcome outcomes.” He also notes that smart beta strategies are little more than a repackaging of small-cap and value effects. download PDF |
May 12, 2014 | Becker Legacy Found in DC Target-Date Modeling | |
by Rick Baert, Pensions & Investments, May 12, 2014: Bruce Jacobs lauds Nobel laureate behavioral economist Gary Becker for his “path-breaking, cross-disciplinary work, extending economic analysis to human behavior and interaction.” |
Apr 14, 2014 | Absorption Ratio Getting New Converts | |
by Barry B. Burr, Pensions & Investments Online, April 14, 2014: In an article about the “absorption ratio,” a measure of market fragility, Bruce Jacobs notes that it may provide an opportunity for early adopters but should be used with care, as it could “cause its own crashes much as portfolio insurance did” if enough investors adopt it. |
Jan 01, 2014 | 15th Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards | |
Journal of Portfolio Management, Winter 2014: Voting by subscribers for the best article to appear in the Journal of Portfolio Management in 2013 resulted in a tie between “Volatility, Correlation, and Diversification in a Multi-Factor World” by Richard Roll and “The Devil in HML’s Details” by Clifford Asness and Andrea Frazzini... Bruce Jacobs, principal and co-founder of Jacobs Levy Equity Management, noted: “Among the emerging issues dealt with in these articles are the effects of price discontinuities and illiquidity, how and why alternative index benchmarks work, and portfolio management for the individual investor.” read more + |
Oct 14, 2013 | Fama, Shiller, Hansen Win Nobel for Security-Price Prediction Analyses | |
by Barry B. Burr, Pensions & Investments, October 14, 2013: This year’s winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Bruce Jacobs notes in this article, “helped explain the extent to which prices can be explained by the rational—and irrational—behavior of investors. The concept of market efficiency and the... implications of behavioral finance have had profound effects on investing, both fundamental and quantitative.” read more + |
Oct 14, 2013 | Witnesses to a Revolution | |
by Barry B. Burr and Arleen Jacobus, Pensions & Investments, October 14, 2013: For its 40th anniversary issue, Pensions & Investments chronicles the most important developments in finance since 1973. Bruce Jacobs is quoted throughout. On Modern Portfolio Theory: The “first risk management system for portfolios.”... On systematic risk: “Systematic risk cannot be eliminated through diversification.” On leverage: “Leverage has contributed to or caused many … financial crises we have experienced.” On behavioral finance: “Cognitive biases … can lead to prices responding irrationally.” read more + |
Sep 18, 2013 | The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Announces Inaugural Recipient of the Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize for Quantitative Financial Innovation, Harry Markowitz | |
Press Release, September 18, 2013: Harry Markowitz is the first recipient of the Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize. The biennial Prize, which includes an $80,000 award, recognizes a person or persons who have published articles that demonstrate outstanding research that has contributed to innovation in the practice of... quantitative financial analysis and asset management. Markowitz is being recognized for groundbreaking innovations in individual retirement planning. The Prize will be presented on October 23, 2013 at the first Forum on Quantitative Finance of the Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research. read more +download PDF |
May 13, 2013 | New Tools for a Post-Financial Crisis Era | |
by Barry B. Burr, Pensions & Investments, May 13, 2013: This article on risk management in the wake of the credit crisis quotes Bruce Jacobs on the problems with value-at-risk analysis, as well as the dangers posed by nonlinearities in pricing and interconnections between firms. Bruce states: “Controlling risk at the individual... entity level might not necessarily prevent systemic risk.” Bruce suggests that network analysis and agent-based modeling could improve risk management; in addition, “leverage risk should be recognized in portfolio construction.” read more +download PDF |
Feb 04, 2013 | Pair Sees MPT Flaw Over Risks of Leverage | |
by Barry B. Burr, Pensions & Investments, February 4, 2013: This article discusses Bruce Jacobs and Ken Levy’s proposal for a new risk model, one that transforms the mean-variance framework of traditional portfolio theory and practice into mean-variance-leverage optimization. As Bruce explains, “If investors were to recognize in... their portfolio optimizations their aversion to the … unique risks of leverage, there would be less leverage in the system and possibly fewer systemic events.” Nobel laureate Harry Markowitz notes: “If you are leveraged, there is a … chance … you could … get wiped out or sold out at very bad prices... [That’s] motivation for thinking about not leveraging too much...” Axioma CEO Sebastián Ceria finds that the idea of incorporating leverage aversion into portfolio construction “is theoretically promising.” Mehmet Bayraktar, Head of Equity Analytics Research at MSCI’s Barra, agrees: “I like the idea of using leverage as a separate parameter of control because it allows investors to make the trade-off decisions between investment opportunities, leverage and (volatility) risk.” read more +download PDF |
Jan 01, 2013 | 14th Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards | |
Journal of Portfolio Management, Winter 2013: “The Death of Diversification Has Been Greatly Exaggerated,” by Antti Ilmanen and Jared Kizer, has been chosen by subscribers as the best article to appear in the Journal of Portfolio Management in 2012. “The winning articles this year examine a question at the core of investment... management—in particular, how to combine assets so as to maximize the tradeoff between return expected and risk taken,” said Bruce Jacobs, principal and co-founder of Jacobs Levy Equity Management. “Given the evolving nature of financial markets, this is a question that demands to be revisited periodically.” read more + |
Oct 15, 2012 | UCLA, Harvard Professors Share Nobel Prize in Economics | |
Barry B. Burr, Pensions & Investments, October 15, 2012: Lloyd Shapley and Alvin E. Roth receive this year’s prize for their work in the development of matching theory and its application to market design. Bruce Jacobs, quoted in the article, notes that “in financial markets, both buyers and sellers make decisions based on... prices... But there are markets without prices.… When there are no pricing signals, Shapley and Roth showed how to design a market mechanism to allocate resources so that the results best satisfy the preferences of both parties.” read more + |
Sep 22, 2012 | Borrowing Against Yourself | |
by Jason Zweig, Wall Street Journal, September 22, 2012: This column references Bruce Jacobs and Ken Levy's article, ... The column quotes Jacobs: "Conventional portfolio theory says not to hold all your eggs in one basket; using leverage is like piling baskets of eggs on top of one another until the pile becomes unsteady." Harry Markowitz agrees, noting that, while diversification works in the long run, "if you're leveraged, then you can get wiped out before the long run comes." read more +view article |
Jan 01, 2012 | 13th Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards | |
Journal of Portfolio Management, Winter 2012: Subscribers have voted Wai Lee’s “Risk-Based Asset Allocation: A New Answer to an Old Question?” the best article to appear in the Journal of Portfolio Management in 2011. Bruce Jacobs, principal and co-founder of Jacobs Levy Equity Management, noted that this year’s submissions... reflect a year of dramatic volatility in financial markets. “Each article examines risk at some level, whether that of the individual portfolio or the broad economy. This kind of examination is more important than ever, as we are continually reminded that we live in a world in which financial markets are critically interlinked with economic activity.” read more + |
Oct 10, 2011 | Research on Economic Policy Effects Earns Nobel | |
by Barry B. Burr, Pensions & Investments, October 10, 2011: Bruce Jacobs notes that Thomas J. Sargent’s and Christopher A. Sims’s “seminal work incorporated rational expectations into macroeconomics,” “led to more dynamic models,” and had a “large impact” on quantitative finance. |
Sep 19, 2011 | Jacobs Levy Co-CIOs Endow New Finance Center at Wharton | |
by Barry B. Burr, Pensions & Investments, September 19, 2011: The new Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research will “focus on innovation in finance.” The center, together with a prize for author(s) of articles that have contributed to innovations in the practice of finance, is funded by a personal gift... from Bruce Jacobs and Ken Levy, co-founders of Jacobs Levy Equity Management. According to Bruce, “With the markets as tumultuous as they are, there is great need for a greater understanding of finance and financial markets.” read more +download PDF |
Sep 07, 2011 | Research Center, Prize to Foster Financial Analysis | |
by Melanie Grayce West, Wall Street Journal, September 7, 2011: Bruce Jacobs and Ken Levy, co-founders of Jacobs Levy Equity Management and alumni of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, have contributed $12 million to Wharton to establish a research center and a prize for quantitative innovation... in finance. The gift honors the 25th anniversary of their firm. The Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research and the Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize for Quantitative Financial Innovation will provide “a way to invest in new ‘maps’ that . . . will provide insight into how financial markets do and don’t work. There’s plenty of wilderness out there to explore,” according to Bruce. read more +download PDF |
Sep 07, 2011 | The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania Announces a $12 Million Gift from Alumni Bruce Jacobs and Kenneth Levy to Establish the Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research and the Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize for Quantitative Financial Innovation | |
Press Release, September 7, 2011: The Jacobs Levy Center will support faculty research, fund Ph.D. dissertations in quantitative finance, and sponsor a White Paper series and annual conference. Two million dollars of the gift will fund the Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize; the Prize, which includes an $80,000 award, will be... presented biennially to a person or persons who have published articles that demonstrate outstanding research that has contributed to innovation in the practice of quantitative financial analysis and asset management. Bruce Jacobs notes: “We believe that establishing a research center and a prize for innovation will foster the advancement of quantitative financial research and practice. Given recent market volatility and economic uncertainty we think the timing of this gift could not be more critical as investors are seeking new solutions to meet their growing funding gaps.” Ken Levy adds that he and Bruce created their firm, Jacobs Levy Equity Management, “to apply the academic ideas and tools we had learned at Wharton, expand upon them, and put our proprietary research into practice in the real-world pursuit of value-added investing for clients. Our firm’s success is a testament to the usefulness of quantitative financial research." read more +download PDF |
Jan 01, 2011 | 12th Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards | |
Journal of Portfolio Management, Winter 2011: Based on voting by Journal of Portfolio Management subscribers, the top award for 2009-2010 is given to “Active Portfolio Management and Positive Alphas: Fact or Fantasy?” by Robert A. Jarrow. “The winning article, examines the nature of the elusive alpha from active management,”... said Bruce Jacobs, principal and co-founder of Jacobs Levy Equity Management. read more + |
Nov 10, 2010 | 3 Receive Nobel for Supply-and-Demand Research | |
by Barry B. Burr, Pensions & Investments Online, October 11, 2010: Commenting on Peter Diamond, Dale Mortensen, and Christopher Pissarides, the 2010 Nobel laureates in Economics, Bruce Jacobs points out that their work demonstrates how the economics of labor and financial markets has evolved from the theoretical... “assumption of perfect markets … to more realistic models” in which “information is costly … to obtain.” read more + |
Nov 01, 2010 | Traders Thrive on Life in the Fast Lane | |
by John Aidan Byrne, Institutional Investor, November 2010: Based on the Institutional Investor transaction cost survey for 2010, Jacobs Levy ranks ninth among the top investment managers in trading efficiency. |
May 01, 2010 | Graham & Dodd Awards of Excellence for 2009 | |
Financial Analysts Journal, May/June 2010: Bruce Jacobs's article, "Tumbling Tower of Babel: Subprime Securitization and the Credit Crisis," published in the March/April 2009 Financial Analysts Journal, receives the Graham & Dodd Readers' Choice Award. |
Apr 29, 2010 | New Collection of Essays Examines Causes of Economic Meltdown | |
by Barry Burr, Pensions & Investments Online, April 29, 2010: Insights into the Global Financial Crisis (Research Foundation of CFA Institute, 2009), including Bruce Jacobs’s “Tumbling Tower of Babel: Subprime Securitization and the Credit Crisis,” is lauded as “a masterful collection of essays on the market and economic meltdown.” |
Mar 30, 2010 | CFA Research Foundation Takes a First Crack at Writing the History Book of the 2008 Financial Crisis | |
by Steve Deutsch, AllAboutAlpha.com, March 30, 2010: This review of Insights into the Global Financial Crisis (Research Foundation of CFA Institute, 2009) quotes from Bruce Jacobs’s contribution, “Tumbling Tower of Babel: Subprime Securitization and the Credit Crisis.” |
Jan 01, 2010 | 11th Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards | |
Journal of Portfolio Management, Winter 2010: The Best Article award for 2008-2009, based on voting by Journal of Portfolio Management subscribers, goes to Robert E. Whaley’s “Understanding the VIX.” “This was the last year in which The Journal of Portfolio Management, its contributors, and its readers were able to benefit... from the guidance and wisdom of founder Peter Bernstein, who passed away in June 2009, said Bruce Jacobs, principal and co-founder of Jacobs Levy Equity Management. “This year's winners extend Peter's legacy. Like him, they demonstrate a marked ability to bring clear-sighted thinking to practical issues of importance to professionals in the investment industry.” read more + |
Dec 14, 2009 | Samuelson, 1st American Nobel Economic Prize Winner, Dead at 94 | |
by Barry B. Burr, Pensions & Investments Online, December 14, 2009: Bruce Jacobs notes that Paul Samuelson’s seminal paper, “Proof That Properly Anticipated Prices Fluctuate Randomly,” “set the scene for efficient market theory, although Samuelson did maintain that investors capable of beating the market might exist but... would probably remain undetected as they would tend to stay out of the limelight in order to avoid attracting ‘free riders’ whose competition would jeopardize gains.” read more + |
Oct 19, 2009 | Nobel Economics Prize Winner Includes 1st Woman Recipient | |
by Barry B. Burr, Pensions & Investments, October 19, 2009: In regard to Nobel winners Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson, Bruce Jacobs notes that: “In the wake of the credit crisis, and in the presence of limits on investor rationality and market efficiency, the Nobel committee focused on ways of organizing economic... activity outside of financial markets.” read more + |
Oct 01, 2009 | Bruce I. Jacobs’s Remarks in Honor of Nobel Laureate Harry M. Markowitz, Q Group Fall 2009 Seminar | |
Bruce Jacobs, along with Nobel laureate Bill Sharpe and others, spoke at a dinner banquet honoring Harry Markowitz. Bruce Jacobs and Ken Levy have collaborated with Harry on the optimization of long-short portfolios with realistic short positions and on the development of a financial market simulator... Bruce discussed their long-standing relationship and their interaction with Harry while working on this research. read more +download PDF |
Sep 21, 2009 | Luminaries Pause to Pay Tribute to Peter | |
by Joel Chernoff, Pensions & Investments, September 21, 2009: Bruce Jacobs was among the “luminaries of the investment world” who honored Peter Bernstein at a September 15th memorial. |
Aug 10, 2009 | Mortgage Market Needs Tougher Standards | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs, Pensions & Investments, August 10, 2009: Drawing on his article, “Tumbling Tower of Babel: Subprime Securitization and the Credit Crisis” (Financial Analysts Journal, March/April 2009), Bruce says, “The current financial market crisis has revealed the inadequacy of a system of patchwork regulations... We need a regulatory regime that is consistent across our large and integrated asset markets, one that can regulate financial products with a focus on their potential effects on systemic risk.” read more +download PDF |
Jul 01, 2009 | A Tribute to Peter L. Bernstein | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs and Kenneth N. Levy, Journal of Portfolio Management, Summer 2009: Bruce Jacobs and Ken Levy join Paul Samuelson, Harry Markowitz, William Sharpe, Myron Scholes, Robert Merton, Martin Leibowitz and others in paying tribute to the late Peter Bernstein. |
Jun 15, 2009 | A Giant Loss for Investment World | |
by Joel Chernoff and Barry B. Burr, Pensions & Investments, June 15, 2009: “Many professional investors today were introduced to the more sophisticated and quantitatively oriented concepts underlying modern portfolio management through the work of Peter Bernstein. Peter seemed able to translate the most abstract, arcane... ideas into language that was accessible … and able to do so in a lively, informal style,” notes Bruce Jacobs in this tribute to the late Mr. Bernstein. read more + |
Mar 31, 2009 | Local Government Investment Pool Participant Newsletter | |
Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of the Treasury, March 31, 2009: An explanation of the current economic crisis quotes from Bruce Jacobs’s article “Tumbling Tower of Babel: Subprime Securitization and the Credit Crisis” (Financial Analysts Journal, March/April 2009): “…shifting risk does not eliminate or even... reduce it…The underlying systematic risk represented by housing-price declines merely shifted the risk from borrower to lender, ... from lender to investor, from investor to guarantor. Although hidden, the risk remains, and it eventually brought down the entire financial edifice.” read more + |
Jan 01, 2009 | Tenth Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards | |
Journal of Portfolio Management, Winter 2009: Based on voting by Journal of Portfolio Management subscribers, “Dynamic Portfolio Analysis” by Richard Grinold is selected as Best Article for 2007-2008. Bruce Jacobs, principal and co-founder of Jacobs Levy Equity Management, said Grinold “presents a framework that... allows one to estimate the efficiency of a portfolio whose holdings change as new information arrives and old information ages.” read more + |
Nov 01, 2008 | Turning Point for Trading Costs | |
by Tom Groenfeldt, Institutional Investor, November 2008: Institutional Investor’s annual survey of money managers cites Jacobs Levy as having the second lowest costs for Nasdaq trading and the eighth lowest costs for NYSE trading. download PDF |
Oct 27, 2008 | 'New Geography’ Work Puts Nobel Winner on Map | |
by Barry B. Burr, Pensions & Investments, October 27, 2008: In an article on Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Bruce Jacobs notes that Krugman hypothesizes a trade-off between economies of scale on the firm level and desire for diversity on the part of consumers... Just as investors seek diversity in their portfolios, in terms of stock selection, and in domestic, international and global portfolios, individuals seek diversity in choices among consumption goods to provide the desired consumption basket. read more + |
Jul 17, 2008 | Short Positions Throwing a Wrench in the Works for Traditional (long-only) Institutional Investors | |
AllAboutAlpha.com, July 17, 2008: An article on the importance of integrated optimization for a long-short portfolio notes that “in essence, BNY Mellon is following the recommendations of Bruce Jacobs and Ken Levy,” made in their article, “On the Optimality of Long-Short Strategies” (Financial Analysts Journal, March/April 1998). |
May 27, 2008 | Quantitative Hedge Funds | |
Strategy Focus, www.infovest21.com, May 27, 2008: A review of How I Became a Quant (John Wiley & Sons, 2007) notes that Bruce Jacobs is among the major names featured in the book. |
May 12, 2008 | Cutting-Edge Academics: The Smart Money | |
by Barry B. Burr, Pensions & Investments, May 12, 2008: When asked by P&I to name current academics who might have an impact on investment practice with cutting-edge research, Bruce Jacobs cited Jeffrey Wurgler and Malcolm Baker: “Wurgler and Baker's work doesn't attempt to find new irrational tendencies or biases,... but looks at stock prices themselves for what they can tell us about behavioral quirks. This type of work is important especially in today’s markets, which has been characterized by wave after wave of investor sentiment—the tech bubble, the bursting of the tech bubble, the housing bubble, the bursting of the housing bubble, the credit bubble and the bursting of the credit bubble.” read more + |
Mar 01, 2008 | Graham & Dodd Awards of Excellence for 2007 | |
Financial Analysts Journal, March/April 2008: Bruce Jacobs and Kenneth Levy receive a Graham & Dodd Award for “20 Myths About Enhanced Active 120-20 Strategies,” published in the July/August 2007 Financial Analysts Journal. This article also received the 2007 Graham & Dodd Readers' Choice Award. |
Jan 14, 2008 | 130/30 Fanbase Grows as Investors Cut Managers Free | |
Laura Cohn, Financial Times, January 14, 2008: Jacobs Levy is mentioned as one of the firms managing 130/30 strategies. In a sidebar, Bruce Jacobs notes that part of the attraction of 130/30 strategies is that shorting and leverage allow institutional managers with the “necessary skills and experience … to manage... portfolios with fewer constraints.” read more + |
Jan 01, 2008 | Come Together | |
by Kris Devasabai, International Custody & Fund Administration Magazine, January 2008: As institutional investment managers take on more alternative strategies from the hedge fund world, Jacobs Levy is cited as having “quickly built over $4.2bn in assets under management” in 130-30 strategies. |
Jan 01, 2008 | Ninth Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards | |
Journal of Portfolio Management, Winter 2008: Subscribers to the Journal of Portfolio Management vote “Gathering Implicit Alphas in a Beta World” by Martin Leibowitz and Anthony Bova as Best Article for 2006-2007. “In the current period of market volatility and retrenchment, the winning articles revisit some of the... basics of investing and bring back refreshing, and practical, insights,” said Bruce Jacobs, principal and co-founder of Jacobs Levy Equity Management. read more + |
Nov 12, 2007 | Hirings: Illinois State Universities | |
Pensions & Investments, November 12, 2007: Jacobs Levy has been hired by State Universities Retirement System of Illinois for a $300 million Russell 3000 mandate. |
Nov 01, 2007 | Addition by Subtraction | |
by Justin Schack, Institutional Investor, November 2007: In an annual survey of institutional investment managers, Jacobs Levy is cited as having the lowest costs for Nasdaq trading and the fifth-lowest costs for NYSE trading. |
Oct 29, 2007 | Work on Mechanism Design Theory Earns Nobel | |
by Barry Burr, Pensions & Investments, October 29, 2007: Nobel laureates Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin, and Roger B. Myerson look at how to arrive at the best economic solutions under imperfect conditions. According to Bruce Jacobs, “this is an approach that is not only applicable but necessary when it comes to managing... money. While there are many theories … that seem to work fine when conditions are just so, you can’t bet the farm on them without making adjustments for the many vicissitudes of real-world markets.” read more + |
Oct 22, 2007 | Natural State Teachers Select Pvt. Equity Consultant | |
Money Management Letter, October 22, 2007: Among other changes, the Arkansas Teachers Retirement System is transferring assets to a 130/30 strategy at Jacobs Levy. |
Oct 14, 2007 | 120-20 Reaches Mythical Proportions? | |
AllAboutAlpha.com, October 14, 2007: Bruce Jacobs and Ken Levy’s article “20 Myths about Enhanced Active 120-20 Strategies,” a follow-up to their seminal “20 Myths about Long-Short,” is a “comprehensive, easy-to-read review of the state of an emerging industry,” says author Christopher Holt. |
Oct 01, 2007 | What Did We Learn? 20 Years Later | |
by Jay Cooper and Barry B. Burr, Pensions & Investments, October 1, 2007: In this article comparing the crash of 1987 with the market turmoil in August, Bruce Jacobs notes that “The risk of a strategy may not seem all that great when you think you’re the only one doing it, but when every firm is offering portfolio insurance, or every... highly leveraged multistrategy hedge fund is following a similar strategy, risk goes way up.” read more + |
Oct 01, 2007 | The Long & Short of 130/30 | |
by Jo Wrighton, Institutional Investor, October 2007: Jacobs and Levy is mentioned as one of the primary providers of 130/30-type strategies. |
Sep 06, 2007 | FAJ Article Dispels ‘20 Myths About Enhanced Active 120-20 Strategies' | |
CFA Institute Press Release, September 6, 2007: During his September 19 Webcast based on the Financial Analysts Journal article "20 Myths About Enhanced Active 120-20 Strategies" (July/August 2007), Bruce Jacobs dispels common misconceptions about enhanced active equity 120-20 strategies, which allow equity... managers to sell short individual stocks worth up to 20 percent of portfolio value and invest the proceeds in additional long share purchases. read more +download PDF |
Aug 20, 2007 | Indiana State Teachers Hires 7 Equity Managers | |
Pensions & Investments, August 20, 2007: Indiana State Teachers’ Retirement Fund has picked Jacobs Levy to run $85 million in U.S. equity small and mid cap value portfolios. |
May 14, 2007 | Ideas Roiling Efficient Market | |
by Joel Chernoff, Pensions & Investments, May 14, 2007: A review of Peter Bernstein’s new book, Capital Ideas Evolving, notes that many of the leading theoreticians who were the subjects of Bernstein’s previous work, Capital Ideas, are now focusing on the real world. They include Harry Markowitz, father of mean-variance... analysis. With “Bruce I. Jacobs and Kenneth N. Levy, principals at Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc., [he is] ... developing a simulation that builds in behavioral finance concepts, such as overconfidence and loss aversion.” read more + |
Feb 09, 2007 | Illinois SURS Eyes Long/Short, 130/30 | |
Pensions & Investments Online, February 9, 2007: On February 1, the $15.3 billion Illinois State Universities Retirement System board met with Bruce Jacobs of Jacobs Levy for an educational discussion about long-short strategies, including 130-30 portfolios. |
Jan 24, 2007 | Sonoma County Hires Equity Managers | |
FINdaily, January 24, 2007: California-based Sonoma County Employees Retirement System hired Jacobs Levy to manage a $170 million U.S. equity Russell 3000 mandate. |
Jan 01, 2007 | Eighth Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards | |
Journal of Portfolio Management, Winter 2007: Based on voting by Journal of Portfolio Management subscribers, the top award for 2005-2006 is given to “Five Myths about Fees” by Ronald N. Kahn, Matthew Scanlan, and Laurence B. Siegel. “Mssrs. Kahn, Scanlan, and Siegel are showing us new ways of looking at how investing is... practiced. That was one of our aims in establishing the awards,” noted Bruce Jacobs, principal and co-founder of Jacobs Levy Equity Management. read more + |
Dec 01, 2006 | Keep the Change | |
by Pierre Paulden, Institutional Investor, December 2006: Advances in electronic trading continue to push transaction costs lower. Among institutional investment managers, Jacobs Levy is cited as having the lowest costs for NYSE trading and the third lowest costs for NASDAQ trading. download PDF |
Nov 27, 2006 | Defender of Capitalism Dies | |
by Barry B. Burr, Pensions & Investments, November 27, 2006: On the passing of Milton Friedman, Bruce Jacobs notes, “Many believe his economic ideas … underpinned the robust economic growth and extraordinary stock market gains of the 1980s and 1990s.” Bruce also points out that Friedman's early work on risk aversion... “contributed to currently accepted notions of investor utility.” read more + |
Nov 01, 2006 | Short Selling Hits Optimistic Sentiment | |
by Makoto Kajiwara, Nikkei Financial Daily, November 1, 2006: This article on the increasing popularity of investment strategies that use short selling quotes Bruce Jacobs, “a pioneer in research into 120-20,” on the benefits of short selling for the market and economy, “Short selling monitors the irregularities of executives... and is also linked to increased market efficiency and social prosperity.” read more + |
Oct 09, 2006 | Columbia University Professor Gets Nobel in Economics | |
Pensions & Investments Online, October 9, 2006: According to Bruce Jacobs, “[Edmund S.] Phelps' work on inflation and unemployment … has had a large impact on policy-making.” |
Aug 14, 2006 | Press Release | |
CalPERS, August 14, 2006: CalPERS, the nation's largest public pension fund, hired Jacobs Levy as one of four new active growth U.S. equity managers. |
Aug 07, 2006 | Hirings | |
Pensions & Investments, August 7, 2006: Arizona State Retirement System has hired Jacobs Levy to manage $200 million in active domestic long-short 120-20 equities. |
Jun 12, 2006 | New Approach Gets Hedge Fund Returns with Traditional Risk | |
by Barry B. Burr, Pensions and Investments, June 12, 2006: Motivated by a recent article in the Journal of Portfolio Management, in which Bruce Jacobs and Ken Levy describe a new strategy that can "enhance performance by permitting meaningful underweight positions that are simply not achievable in long-only... portfolios," Burr's Portfolio Strategies column quotes Bruce Jacobs: "I've never seen such a dramatic interest in something new before." Jacobs goes on to say that the strategy, often called a 120-20 or a 130-30 portfolio, "is a better way to run money. Any manager, given their insights into equities, should be able to do better than they do with long only." read more +download PDF |
Apr 03, 2006 | Structured Products: Taking the Next Step | |
by Joel Chernoff, Pensions & Investments, April 3, 2006: Bruce Jacobs and other active investment product innovators are referenced in this look at the future of quantitative management. |
Apr 01, 2006 | Seventh Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards | |
Journal of Portfolio Management, Spring 2006: The top honor for 2004-2005, based on voting by Journal of Portfolio Management subscribers, goes to Robert Litterman for “The Active Risk Puzzle.” |
Feb 07, 2006 | Teacher Investments Show Gain | |
by Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Democrat Gazette, February 7, 2006: Jacobs Levy hired by Arkansas Teacher Retirement System to manage $267 million in domestic large cap growth stocks. |
Nov 01, 2005 | Most Nobel Minds | |
CFA Magazine, November-December 2005: In a roundtable discussion with four other Nobel laureates, Harry Markowitz discusses how with the Jacobs Levy Markowitz Simulator “we can see the dynamics of the situation as distinguished from just the equilibrium condition.” |
Oct 17, 2005 | Nobel Winners Friends of Behavioral Economics | |
by Barry B. Burr, Pensions & Investments, October 17, 2005 and “Pair Awarded Nobel Economics Prize,” Pensions & Investments Online, October 10, 2005: These articles about the 2005 recipients of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, Robert J. Aumann and Thomas C. Schelling, quote Bruce Jacobs, who observes... that “Game theory examines how decisions come about from the interactions between parties often having competing interests. Investing is more concerned with decision theory. That is how one person, or firm, comes to a decision based on all available information, which may include the opinions and actions of others, such as Wall Street security analysts, corporate management, or other investors ... It is sometimes useful to view market behavior through the lens of game theory. In his later research, [Mr.] Schelling looked at tipping theory, which examines the rapid movement of a system from one equilibrium to another ... [and] may ... be able to shed some light on information cascades and crashes in financial markets.” read more + |
Aug 08, 2005 | Trouble with Fees | |
Pensions & Investments, August 8, 2005: This editorial critique of a New York Times story on the United Airlines pension default notes that Jacobs Levy Equity Management was at least one United pension manager that earned its fees, quoting Bruce Jacobs: “For every dollar of fees the UAL plans paid, the portfolio earned $4.71... net of fees” from active management by Jacobs Levy. The editorial goes on to note: “If that is a money manager wreck, most pension plans would want to join this type of crash.” read more + |
Apr 11, 2005 | The Public School Retirement System of Missouri and The Non-Teacher School Employee Retirement System of Missouri Hire Jacobs Levy | |
The Public School Retirement System of Missouri and The Non-Teacher School Employee Retirement System of Missouri hire Jacobs Levy to manage $500 million in large-cap growth equity. |
Jan 01, 2005 | Sixth Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards | |
Journal of Portfolio Management, Winter 2005: Top honor for 2003-2004, based on voting by Journal of Portfolio Management subscribers, goes to “Fight the Fed Model” by Clifford Asness. |
Dec 13, 2004 | Minnesota Picks Managers | |
Pensions & Investments, December 13, 2004: The Minnesota State Board of Investment has picked Jacobs Levy to run a portion of its $45 billion active domestic large-cap equity. |
Dec 10, 2004 | Review of Market Neutral Strategies | |
by Chetan Parikh, www.capitalideasonline.com, December 10, 2004; This reviewer of Bruce Jacobs and Ken Levy's edited volume on market neutral investing finds the book “eminently suited for investment professionals” and commends the editors “for bringing out an important reference text,” singling out for praise the chapter... on merger arbitrage, the chapter “Questions and Answers About Market Neutral Investing,” and “A Tale of Two Hedge Funds” about Long-Term Capital Management and Askin Capital Management. read more + |
Dec 01, 2004 | Review of Market Neutral Strategies | |
by Glyn Holton, Contingency Analysis, www.riskbook.com website, December 2004: According to the reviewer, “There are plenty of non-technical books that describe the market-neutral and statistical arbitrage trading strategies employed by hedge funds and a few active investment managers. This is one of the best.” |
Nov 05, 2004 | Lots of Market Neutral Trees and a Map for the Forest | |
by Christopher Faille, HedgeWorld News, www.hedgeworld.com, November 5, 2004: This review of Market Neutral Strategies, edited by Bruce I. Jacobs and Kenneth N. Levy, notes that “the authors are to be commended.” |
Nov 01, 2004 | A Long-Short Story | |
by Nancy Opiela, CFA Magazine, November-December 2004: This discussion of the challenges and rewards of long-short investing references Bruce I. Jacobs and Kenneth N. Levy's “The Long and Short on Long-Short” (Journal of Investing, Spring 1997). |
Oct 18, 2004 | 2 Professors Receive Nobel for Economics | |
Pensions & Investments, October 18, 2004: Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott, recipients of this year's Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, have contributed insights that may be of use to investment analysts using macroeconomics forecasts, according to Bruce Jacobs. |
Oct 08, 2004 | American Finance Association – Masters of Finance: Harry Markowitz Interview | |
In a 2004 interview conducted by the American Finance Association, recently published on the Internet, Nobel laureate Harry Markowitz says: “One of the things I am doing with some colleagues, Bruce Jacobs and Ken Levy, is that we are building a large asynchronous market model where there are entities like statisticians, portfolio... analysts, investors and traders.” Dr. Markowitz also notes that he, Jacobs, and Levy are addressing the optimization of long-short portfolios that are subject to Reg T. read more +view video |
Jul 12, 2004 | When Risk Avoidance Goes Too Far | |
by Barry B. Burr, Pensions & Investments, July 12, 2004: This article notes that Bruce Jacobs, in “Risk Avoidance and Market Fragility,” distinguishes between traditional insurance, which protects against a specific risk, and strategies and instruments that purport to insure against a systematic risk such as a market downturn... As the latter grow in popularity, they can exacerbate volatility. read more + |
Jun 14, 2004 | Indiana Public Employees | |
Pensions & Investments, June 14, 2004: Jacobs Levy has been hired by the Indiana Public Employees’ Retirement Fund, Indianapolis, to manage $260 million in U.S. small-cap growth equity. |
Mar 15, 2004 | Weapons of Mass Panic | |
by William P. Barrett, Forbes Magazine, March 15, 2004: This comment summarizes Bruce Jacobs's article in the January/February 2004 issue of the Financial Analysts Journal (“Risk Avoidance and Market Fragility”), and its argument: “financial products sold as risk reducers can leave the institutions offering them more prone to... risk that they themselves cannot diversify away or hedge. This risk then could rear up and bite deeply during periods of extreme economic volatility.” read more + |
Jan 01, 2004 | Fifth Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards | |
Journal of Portfolio Management, Winter 2004: Voting by Journal of Portfolio Management subscribers resulted in a tie for first place, with awards going to “Expected Returns on Stocks and Bonds” by Antti Ilmanen and “The Hierarchy of Investment Choice” by Mark Kritzman and Sebastien Page. |
Nov 01, 2003 | Trading Places—Memo to John Reed: You May Have Bigger Problems Than You Thought | |
by Justin Schack, Institutional Investor, November 2003: Institutional investors, resenting the relatively high transaction costs on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), are increasingly turning to electronic trading venues. Jacobs Levy is one of five firms cited as achieving lowest trading costs for both NYSE and NASDAQ... stocks in 2002. read more + |
Oct 27, 2003 | P&I at 30—The Difference-Makers | |
by Barry B. Burr, Pensions & Investments, October 27, 2003: This celebration of Pensions & Investments’ 30th anniversary highlights key figures in investing over the period, including Nobel laureates Harry M. Markowitz and William F. Sharpe. In the profile of Markowitz, Bruce Jacobs notes that he “provided the first... mathematical treatment of the concept of investment diversification, thereby giving rigor to what previously had been ad hoc decisions. From that point forward, a security’s risk would not be measured separately from that of other securities, but instead as part of its contribution to an overall portfolio.” In the profile on Sharpe, Jacobs asserts that his “concept that the market portfolio of all assets is the most efficient risk-return portfolio led to the use of betas and Sharpe ratios for performance measurement, and along with the later hypothesis that the markets are informationally efficient, led to the advent of indexing.” read more + |
Oct 13, 2003 | Nobel Prize: Practical Applications for Winners’ Ideas; Economic Time-Series Analysis Earns Duo Academic, Industry Praise | |
by Gregory Crawford, Pensions & Investments, October 13, 2003: This year’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to Clive Granger and Robert Engle, for work that has had direct application to investment management. Bruce Jacobs notes that Granger’s work on cointegration gives portfolio analysts and managers... the tools to determine whether assets are overpriced or underpriced relative to long-term trends, while Engel’s volatility model helps institutional investors gauge future volatility. Jacobs further notes: “Pension sponsors may use time-varying volatility when making their risk budgeting decisions—when apportioning their assets across different managers or different asset classes. Banks, hedge funds and investment managers use estimates of time-varying volatility when computing value-at-risk, which is a key statistic measuring the potential losses a portfolio might experience over a given time period.” read more + |
Sep 01, 2003 | More David Than Goliath | |
Russell Portfolio (Frank Russell Company), September 2003: Peter Gunning, Chief Investment Officer of Russell Investment Group, Australasia notes that Russell “has always believed in hiring specialist managers.” He cites Jacobs Levy as an example. |
Jul 01, 2003 | Horizon Manager Changes: Three New Fund Managers Appointed | |
Horizon Insight, July 2003: Manager of managers Russell has appointed Jacobs Levy, “who runs a wide range of mandates, from large capitalization growth to small capitalization value." |
Jun 01, 2003 | How to Make Volatility Pay—The Next Step Forward Could Be Portable Alpha | |
by James Rutter, Global Investor, June 2003: This article notes the increased interest in portable alpha strategies and references Jacobs Levy research: “the logic for [transporting alpha was well laid out by Bruce Jacobs and Ken Levy in a Star Trek-inspired article in the 25th anniversary issue of the... Journal of Portfolio Management (“Alpha Transport with Derivatives,” May 1999). read more + |
Apr 14, 2003 | Funds SA back ... Jacobs Levy | |
Investor Weekly (Australia), April 14, 2003: Funds SA, the South Australian public sector superannuation fund, has allocated 300 million Australian dollars to U.S. equity manager Jacobs Levy. Funds SA becomes Jacobs Levy’s second-biggest Australian mandate, after Frank Russell Company’s Russell International Shares Fund. |
Jan 01, 2003 | Fourth Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards | |
Journal of Portfolio Management, Winter 2003: Top honors for 2001-2002 go to “Do Hedge Funds Hedge?” by Clifford S. Asness, Robert J. Krail and John M. Liew. |
Dec 09, 2002 | AIMR and ‘Best Practices’ on Ethics | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs, Pensions & Investments, December 9, 2002: In this commentary, Jacobs suggests that AIMR’s research publications could follow the ethical standards of the medical community’s journals in order to minimize conflicts of interest in the research and publication process. |
Nov 01, 2002 | AIMR’s Objectivity Lesson | |
Global Investor, November 2002: This highlights Bruce Jacobs’s two-year crusade to bring to light ... "very clear conflicts of interest" at the heart of the Association for Investment Management and Research. The editorial points to support from Jose Arau, principal investment officer of CalPERS, who backs Jacobs’s call for AIMR... to adopt internal research objectivity standards. AIMR Senior Vice President Katrina Sherrerd responds that AIMR is reviewing its policies, including Jacobs’s proposal for internal objectivity standards. Global Investor concludes that the spirit of full transparency and objectivity has not been well served. read more + |
Nov 01, 2002 | Lessons from the Collapse of Hedge Fund, Long-Term Capital Management | |
by David Shirreff, riskinstitute.ch, November 1, 2002: Bruce Jacobs is quoted on the bailout of Long-Term Capital Management: “Had LTC not been bailed out, the immediate liquidation of its leveraged ... positions may have had effects ... rivaling the effects on the equity market of the forced liquidations of insured stocks in 1987. |
Nov 01, 2002 | How the Top Brokerage Firms and Investment Managers Rank in Execution Costs Around the World | |
Institutional Investor, November 2002: For 2001, Jacobs Levy ranks 10th in best execution among all investment managers trading on the NYSE. |
Oct 14, 2002 | Economics Award Seen Vindicating Validity of Behavioral Economics | |
by Joel Chernoff, Pensions & Investments, October 14, 2002: An article about the recent award of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences to Daniel Kahneman and Vernon Smith quotes Bruce Jacobs on one application of behavioral finance: "corporate management ‘frames’ earnings for Wall Street, then tries to... manipulate the outcome by beating the Street consensus or the comparable quarter from the previous year... How reported earnings relate to these ‘reference points’ can give rise to different return opportunities." read more + |
Oct 03, 2002 | Letter in Support of Bruce Jacobs’s Proposal for AIMR to adopt Research Objectivity Standards for its own Publications | |
by Jose Arau, www.aimr.org, October 3, 2002: Jose Arau, CalPERS Principal Investment Officer and President of the Security Analysts of Sacramento, urges AIMR to adopt the Internal Research Objectivity Standards that Jacobs has proposed, writing: We believe a transparent editorial policy, where all potential conflicts of interest... are disclosed, would ensure a level of fairness and integrity in AIMR publications and conferences that would redound to the benefit of all AIMR members and, indeed, all participants in the financial markets. read more + |
Oct 01, 2002 | Managers of Dutch Assets | |
Investment & Pensions Europe, October 2002: Jacobs Levy manages 179 million euros in Dutch pension assets. |
Sep 13, 2002 | Bids & Offers: Analyst, Heal Thyself | |
by William Power and Kate Kelly, Wall Street Journal, September 13, 2002: Bruce Jacobs, a member of The Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR), finds that AIMR, the high priests of analyst standards, doesn’t practice what it preaches. view article |
Sep 01, 2002 | Ohio State Hires Jacobs Levy | |
Money Management Letter, September 1, 2002: Ohio State Teachers Retirement Systems hires Jacobs Levy for S&P 500 mandate. |
Aug 12, 2002 | Proposal for AIMR to adopt Research Objectivity Standards for its own Publications | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs, www.aimr.org, August 12, 2002: In response to the Association for Investment Management and Research’s proposed new Research Objectivity Standards aimed at conflicts of interest at buy- and sell-side firms, corporate issuers and the media, Jacobs notes that the same types of conflicts are at work within AIMR... itself. Jacobs suggests that AIMR adopt a clear, publicly stated policy explicitly governing internal conflicts of interest and suggests some specific standards. read more + |
Jun 30, 2002 | Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, Maine State Retirement System | |
www.msrs.org, June 30, 2002: Jacobs Levy manages $180 million in U.S. equity for Maine State Retirement System. |
Jun 19, 2002 | New Team on Board for Russell | |
by Jason Clout, Australian Financial Review, June 19, 2002: Frank Russell Company has allocated $300 million [Australian dollars] of its multimanager Australia-based Russell International Shares Fund to Jacobs Levy. Jacobs Levy will provide the core U.S. equity portfolio, to be benchmarked against the MSCI U.S. Index. |
Jun 01, 2002 | Jacobs Levy hired for Russell International Shares Fund | |
Russell Update, June 2002: Jacobs Levy called one of the industry’s most compelling quantitative equity managers. |
Feb 11, 2002 | Six houses net briefs from Frank Russell | |
Financial Times Mandate, February 11, 2002: Jacobs Levy chosen to co-manage Frank Russell U.S. Quantitative Fund. |
Jan 30, 2002 | Frank Russell Adds New UK and US Quant Funds | |
Investment and Pensions Europe, January 30, 2002: Frank Russell hires Jacobs Levy Equity Management, as well as Barclays Global Investors, JP Morgan Fleming Asset Management and Franklin Portfolio Associates, to run its U.S. multi-manager fund. |
Jan 01, 2002 | Third Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards | |
Journal of Portfolio Management, Winter 2002: Burton Malkiel and Aleksander Radisich win first prize for 2000-2001 for “The Growth of Index Funds and the Pricing of Equity Securities.” |
Nov 01, 2001 | How the Top Brokerage Firms and Investment Managers Rank in Execution Costs Around the World | |
by Justin Schack, Institutional Investor, November 2001: Jacobs Levy ranks Number Nine in best execution among all firms trading on NYSE. |
Jul 23, 2001 | Fidelity Unveils US Equity Strategy in UK and Europe | |
by Niki Natarajan, Financial News Online, July 23, 2001: A Callan Associates' graph showing market neutral strategies' returns plotted on returns to value, growth, small and large capitalization reveals that most strategies are biased toward one or another style; out of 12, only the Fidelity and the Jacobs Levy portfolios appear to be... truly market neutral. read more + |
Jul 02, 2001 | Florida Starts Manager Selection for $30bn Plan | |
by Roxane McMeeken, Financial Times Mandate, July 2, 2001: Jacobs Levy to manage up to $750 million in large cap growth for Florida state defined contribution plan. |
Jun 20, 2001 | Focus on U.S. Large Caps | |
www.Russell.com, June 20, 2001: In a Frank Russell interview, Jacobs Levy cofounder Ken Levy discusses the firm’s approach to investing, the impact of Regulation Fair Disclosure, and adding value in large cap U.S. equity. |
May 25, 2001 | The Credit Bubble Bulletin: The Son of Portfolio Insurance | |
by Doug Noland, PrudentBear.com, May 25, 2001: In applying the arguments in Bruce Jacobs’s Capital Ideas and Market Realities to interest rate derivatives, the author notes: "I would like to suggest moving Bruce Jacobs’ excellent book ... to the top of reading lists." |
Apr 03, 2001 | Russell Hires Jacobs Levy for a Small Cap Value Assignment Within Its Manager-of-Managers Funds Complex | |
Frank Russell press release, April 3, 2001: Jacobs Levy is selected for Frank Russell’s manager-of-managers complex. The article notes that Russell evaluates more than 1,500 outside investment managers globally as part of its research process. |
Mar 01, 2001 | Russell Hires Small-Cap Equity Specialist | |
Global Investor, March 2001: Frank Russell adds Jacobs Levy to its U.S. small cap equity multi-manager fund. |
Jan 24, 2001 | Russell Hires Three Equity Managers for Its Manager-of-Managers Funds Complex | |
Bloomberg News, January 24, 2001: Jacobs Levy among three managers chosen for Russell U.S. Equity Fund, an institutional fund for Canadian investors. |
Jan 01, 2001 | Second Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards | |
Journal of Portfolio Management, Winter 2001: Jeremy Siegel earns top honors for 1999-2000 for “The Shrinking Equity Premium.” |
Nov 15, 2000 | SuperModels: Modern portfolio theory meets the SuperModels | |
by Jon Markman, MoneyCentral Investor Online, November 15, 2000: Recommends the book Equity Management: Quantitative Analysis for Stock Selection by Bruce Jacobs and Ken Levy. |
Nov 13, 2000 | Economics Winner: Newest Nobel Laureate Turning His Attention to Retirement Issues | |
by Barry B. Burr, Pensions & Investments, November 13, 2000: Bruce Jacobs explains how new Nobelist James J. Heckman’s work on selection bias applies to investment management. "Growth stocks respond to company earnings surprises—a shortfall—in a much more violent way than value stocks... You can’t study price... reaction and assume it applies to all stocks the same way ..." read more + |
Oct 16, 2000 | Ohio State Teachers | |
Pensions & Investments, October 16, 2000: Jacobs Levy to run small cap value for Ohio. |
Oct 05, 2000 | McCall Releases Recent Common Retirement Fund Activity | |
www.osc.state.ny.us, October 5, 2000: New York State allocates an additional $250 million to Jacobs Levy. |
Oct 01, 2000 | How the Advances in Technology Will Affect the Investment Industry | |
Global Pensions Supplement, October 2000: Speaking on the impact of technology on the investment business, Frank Russell’s Scott Donald highlights Jacobs Levy as a firm using technology to hone implementation. |
Aug 01, 2000 | 2000 Hall of Fame Roundtable: Portfolio Insurance Revisited | |
Derivatives Strategy, August 2000: Debating Mark Rubinstein, Professor, University of California, Berkeley and Partner, Leland O’Brien Rubinstein Associates (creators and marketers of portfolio insurance), and William Brodsky, Chairman and CEO of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, Bruce Jacobs likens portfolio... insurance to atomic theory: "It can have its benefits, ... but it can also lead to nuclear bombs." read more + |
Aug 01, 2000 | On the Money | |
Shares & Personal Investor, August 1, 2000: David Lee, consultant to Australian, New Zealand and Asian super funds, reviews the best investment books of the year and recommends Equity Management by Bruce Jacobs and Ken Levy for its insight into modern portfolio theory. |
Jun 26, 2000 | Hot Investment Concept Leaves Managers Cold: Behavioral Finance Mostly Gets Lip Service | |
by Joel Chernoff, Pensions & Investments, June 26, 2000: Jacobs Levy is among the few money managers applying the lessons of behavioral finance to investing. Notes Bruce Jacobs: "We live in a behavioral world, securities prices are determined by human actions, and the behavior of company management, securities... analysts and investors influences securities prices." read more + |
Jun 12, 2000 | Nobel Laureate: Merton Miller Remembered as ‘Champion of Free Markets' | |
by Barry B. Burr, Pensions & Investments, June 12, 2000: In this tribute to the late Merton H. Miller, Bruce Jacobs notes how the Nobel prizes awarded to Miller, and to Harry Markowitz and William Sharpe, represent a belated recognition of finance as a field of economics. |
May 29, 2000 | Another ‘Costless’ Strategy Roils Market | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs, Pensions & Investments, May 29, 2000: How the tech stock bubble’s option-like features and subsequent crash resemble the Long-Term Capital Management and portfolio insurance debacles. |
May 22, 2000 | The Case Against Single-Stock Futures | |
by Joseph Weber, Business Week, May 22, 2000: Bruce Jacobs warns that if single stock futures become popular they "could spawn great volatility in stocks." |
Apr 01, 2000 | Abstracts of NYSSA Programs: Capital Ideas and Market Realities | |
New York Society of Security Analysts Newsletter, April 2000: A description of Bruce Jacobs’s prior presentation to the New York society introduces it as follows: "Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs is on a crusade ... to educate investors about the pitfalls of some modern investment strategies—before it’s too late. He believes that option... replication, dynamic hedging, and other ‘mechanistic’ trading systems based on option pricing models, are the heirs apparent to a failed strategy called ‘portfolio insurance’..." read more + |
Feb 01, 2000 | The World According to Bruce Jacobs | |
by Joe Kolman, Derivatives Strategy, February 2000: In this interview, Jacobs explains how trend-following, mechanistic trading strategies can ravage capital markets and calls for more disclosure of positions, more transparency, and a greater understanding of these strategies and their impact on markets. |
Jan 03, 2000 | A Bumpy Ride to the Market | |
Financial Times, January 3, 2000: Plender observes that Bruce Jacobs’s recent book [Capital Ideas and Market Realities] on options trading and stock market crashes ... argues all too plausibly that growth in over-the-counter equity derivatives will cause increasing market turbulence. |
Jan 01, 2000 | First Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards | |
Journal of Portfolio Management, Winter 2000: Thomas K. Philips takes top award for 1998-1999 for his article, “Why Do Valuation Ratios Forecast Long-Run Equity Returns?” |
Jan 01, 2000 | Building for the Long Term | |
Investments & Pensions Europe, January 2000: As the economy in the Netherlands booms, Jacobs Levy contributes via its management of U.S. equity investments for Amsterdam’s SFB, representing the Dutch building industry. |
Dec 31, 1999 | 1999 Comprehensive Annual Report | |
Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund, www.imrf.org, December 31, 1999: Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund hires Jacobs Levy as manager of a structured growth equity portfolio. |
Dec 17, 1999 | Long-Term, The Sequel: Old Strategies | |
by Mitchell Pacelle, Wall Street Journal, December 17, 1999: As John Meriwether, of Long-Term Capital Management fame, starts a new hedge fund, Bruce Jacobs notes that he is now a "fallen angel" and will have to be forthcoming about his new fund’s risk-taking and leverage. |
Dec 01, 1999 | The ‘Nemesis of Portfolio Insurance’ Argues His Case | |
by Porus P. Cooper, Global Investment, December 1999: The author notes that Bruce Jacobs’s book, Capital Ideas and Market Realities, “mounts a powerful argument against the notion that somehow risk can be disconnected from reward if enough professors of finance work at it.” |
Nov 28, 1999 | Business: Dangers of Hedging | |
by Garth Alexander, Sunday Times (London), November 28, 1999: Bruce Jacobs explains, in his book Capital Ideas and Market Realities, why hedges may not work when the great bubble market implodes. |
Nov 23, 1999 | Capital Ideas and Market Realities | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs, Presentation to the New York Society of Security Analysts, November 23, 1999: "Dynamic hedging is a positive feedback strategy that amplifies the market’s volatility. It’s like a household thermostat that’s gone berserk—the more the temperature rises, the more it calls for heating. The more the temperature... falls, the more it calls for cooling." read more + |
Sep 20, 1999 | The Case for Quantitative Equity Management | |
by Bruce Jacobs and Ken Levy, European Pension News, September 20, 1999: The benefits of quantitative management include breadth, discipline, and integrity. The authors note: "Quantitative management offers both the breadth and depth of analysis, as well as the discipline, needed to deliver outperformance on a consistent basis." |
Sep 01, 1999 | Why Hedge Funds Need to Be Kept in Check | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs, Global Pensions, September 1999: Hedge funds whose hedges fail can have outsize impacts on financial markets. "Enhanced disclosure by hedge funds and their counterparties could help to ensure that due diligence standards are maintained. It would also increase the transparency of hedge fund activities,... improving the public’s awareness of potential liquidity and volatility problems." read more + |
Aug 01, 1999 | Jacobs’s Lather | |
by Alyssa A. Lappen, Institutional Investor, August 1999: Bruce Jacobs, who steered Prudential Insurance away from selling portfolio insurance strategies in the 1980s, warns of similar strategies in today’s market: "The potential hazard of the options-based market is that the market becomes the derivative, subservient to the options." |
Jul 12, 1999 | More to Say About Crash | |
by Michael J. Clowes, Pensions & Investments, July 12, 1999: Bruce Jacobs’s book Capital Ideas and Market Realities "explains more thoroughly than ever why portfolio insurance failed and how it contributed to the 1987 market crash," says P&I Editorial Director Clowes. |
Mar 22, 1999 | Mega-Cap Inefficiency (letter) | |
by Ken Levy, Pensions & Investments, March 22, 1999: Jacobs Levy finds value-added, even in the efficient mega-cap sector. |
Jan 01, 1999 | Award for Outstanding Papers | |
Journal of Investing, Winter 1999: Bruce Jacobs receives an award for outstanding paper for "Option Pricing Theory and its Unintended Consequences," published in the Spring 1998 issue of the Journal of Investing. |
Oct 19, 1998 | Insured? No, Not Really | |
by Michael J. Clowes, Pensions & Investments, October 19, 1998: In regard to portfolio insurance, "one who issued early warnings was Bruce Jacobs ... [who] warned the strategy was unstable and not equivalent to a true insurance policy." |
Oct 05, 1998 | Long-Term Capital’s Short-Term Memory | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs, Pensions & Investments, October 5, 1998: The highly leveraged arbitrage strategies of Long-Term Capital Management resemble portfolio insurance trading in the 1980s in their creation of liquidity vacuums that roiled financial markets. |
Sep 21, 1998 | To Some, August Looked Like October | |
by Phyllis Feinberg, Pensions & Investments, September 21, 1998: Bruce Jacobs warns that, "this year, there are many stocks with the potential for tax-loss selling." |
Sep 07, 1998 | What Happened? Nobody Knows | |
by Barry B. Burr, Pensions & Investments, September 7, 1998: The answers behind the steep fall-off in stock prices on August 31 may lie in behavioral finance; that and, Bruce Jacobs suggests, hedging and option replication: "It can’t be explained from traditional modern finance." |
Sep 01, 1998 | Buyside Listings | |
Wall Street & Technology, September 1998: Jacobs Levy is rated Number Nine in investment technology. |
Jul 01, 1998 | Quantitative Research is King at Jacobs Levy | |
Russell Portfolio (Frank Russell Investment Management Company), July 1998: Jacobs Levy eschews simple solutions. Bruce Jacobs says: "Successful money management requires increasingly sophisticated proprietary analytical and trading systems. The value added is in the creative insights gleaned from intensive research and... the rapid implementation of those insights." read more + |
Jul 01, 1998 | An Important Announcement | |
by Peter L. Bernstein, Journal of Portfolio Management, Summer 1998: The Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Award for the best paper to appear annually in the Journal of Portfolio Management is established by Jacobs Levy "in honor of the editors’ twenty-five years of extraordinary contributions and to promote research excellence... in the theory and practice of portfolio management." read more + |
Jun 15, 1998 | Option Replication and the Market’s Fragility | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs, Pensions & Investments, June 15, 1998: Responding to Nobel laureates Myron Scholes and Merton Miller, Jacobs explains how mispricing can persist in financial markets and how option trading itself led to the illiquidity that Scholes blames for the 1987 market crash: "Blaming illiquidity for the crash, as Professor... Scholes does, mistakes the effect for the cause." read more + |
Mar 01, 1998 | Controlled Risk Strategies | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs, Presentation to the Association for Investment Management and Research Conference Alternative Investing, March 1998: Long-short portfolio construction can be used not only to reduce or eliminate a portfolio’s sensitivity to its underlying universe,... but also to fine-tune the portfolio’s specific risk via control of long and short exposures to constituent securities. read more + |
Dec 08, 1997 | Nobel-Winning Strategy Criticized: Jacobs Says Models Adds to Volatility | |
by Barry B. Burr, Pensions & Investments, December 8, 1997: Counter to Nobel laureates Myron Scholes and Merton Miller, Bruce Jacobs argues that, "With Black-Scholes-Merton hedging can be more exact. But there is a problem because hedging activity may affect market prices and price might not be continuous ... price... changes gap, instead of declining or rising in steady, small increments." read more + |
Nov 24, 1997 | The Darker Side of Options Pricing Theory | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs, Pensions & Investments, November 24, 1997: The option pricing theory formulated by Fischer Black, Myron Scholes, and Robert Merton has led to trading strategies that roil financial markets. Says Jacobs: "Risk is an unavoidable part of financial markets in the aggregate. Risk can be shifted, but it can’t be... eliminated. We forget this at our peril." read more + |
Nov 06, 1997 | Why Stock Options Are Really Dynamite | |
by Roger Lowenstein, Wall Street Journal, November 6, 1997: Lowenstein references Bruce Jacobs’s forthcoming book Capital Ideas and Market Realities and states that "Bruce Jacobs, an investment manager who predicted before the 1987 crash that portfolio insurance would trigger chain-reaction selling, recently forecast... that option-strategies ... would play a similar ... role ... Monday [October 27] provided damning evidence." read more +view article |
Nov 01, 1997 | On the Optimality of Long-Short Strategies | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs, Presentation to the Society of Quantitative Analysts Conference ... However, it must be constructed from an integrated optimization that takes into simultaneous account both long and short positions. read more + |
Oct 19, 1997 | A Decade and a Bull Ride Later, Complacency Reigns | |
by Floyd Norris, New York Times, October 19, 1997: Trading strategies underlying OTC options today pose a threat similar to that posed by portfolio insurance in 1987. According to Bruce Jacobs, the amount of such trading "is a total unknown," and capable of disrupting financial markets. |
Oct 13, 1997 | Crash Showed Danger of ‘Insured’ Assets: Fragility of Market Highlighted | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs, Pensions & Investments, October 13, 1997: Two chapters from Jacobs’s forthcoming book, Capital Ideas and Market Realities, discuss portfolio-protection strategies that have arisen since the 1987 crash and the dangers they pose for market stability. |
Sep 19, 1997 | Jacobs Blames Portfolio Insurance | |
by Barry B. Burr, Pensions & Investments, September 19, 1997: Commemorating the 1987 market crash on its tenth anniversary, the author highlights Bruce Jacobs’s theory of how portfolio insurance contributed to the market’s melt-down: “It is a positive feedback system ... [that] will cause more volatility and a magnification... of ... uptrends and downtrends.” read more + |
Jun 01, 1996 | How to Build a Better Equity Portfolio | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs and Kenneth N. Levy, Pension Management, June 1996: Pension plans can make better decisions if they understand the “architecture” that connects selection universes and investment approaches. |
Feb 19, 1996 | Scoreboard | |
Pensions & Investments, February 19, 1996: Within its size category ($1 billion to $10 billion under management), Jacobs Levy ranks Number Four in attracting new domestic equity investments, with a $677 million gain. |
Oct 01, 1995 | The Long and Short on Long-Short | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs, Presentation to the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (Q Group) Conference “Long/Short Strategies in Equities and Fixed Income,” Fall 1995: The real benefits of long-short investing emerge from an integrated optimization that considers long and short positions simultaneously... Integrated optimization frees the long-short portfolio of benchmarks constraints, giving it more flexibility to pursue returns and control risk. read more + |
Jul 01, 1995 | Market-Neutral Strategy Limits Risk | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs and Kenneth N. Levy, Pension Management, July 1995: Balancing long and short positions in a portfolio can neutralize the portfolio’s exposure to broad market movements and add flexibility in the pursuit of return. |
Feb 13, 1995 | It Even Gets a New Name: Aggressive/Specialty Fund Restructured | |
Jacobs Levy is one of the managers selected for United Airlines’ Aggressive/Specialty Equity Fund, within its Directed Account Program. “Jacobs Levy ‘disentangles’ security returns across different stock attributes and industry affiliations” and will invest across the entire small cap market for the Aggressive/Specialty Equity Fund. |
Jan 09, 1995 | Pension Funds May Sell Short: IRS | |
by Vineeta Anand, Pensions & Investments, January 9, 1995: A new ruling by the IRS holds that short sales do not give rise to unrelated business taxable income; the result, according to Bruce Jacobs, could be a “substantial broadening of interest among tax-exempt investors” in market neutral strategies. |
Oct 04, 1994 | Reuters’s Instinet Is Biting Off Chunks of Nasdaq’s Territory | |
by Warren Getler, Wall Street Journal, October 4, 1994: Ken Levy notes that trading on Instinet “enables us to get better executions than if we had to just farm out the order to brokers.” |
Mar 21, 1994 | Short Sale IRS Rule Due in ’94 | |
by Vineeta Anand, Pensions & Investments, March 21, 1994: Jacobs Levy’s market neutral equity strategies are among those that may benefit from the IRS’s clarification of the tax treatment for short sales. |
Feb 15, 1994 | Floored | |
by Paul Gibson, Financial World, February 15, 1994: In line with Ken Levy’s comment that “We find more and more liquidity on the electronic networks,” more fund managers bypass the major stock markets to trade amongst themselves. |
Oct 18, 1993 | New Guide for Trekking Globally | |
by Barry B. Burr, Pensions & Investments, October 18, 1993: In their newly published Global Investing, Roger Ibbotson and Gary Brinson discuss the application of the anomalies research undertaken by Bruce Jacobs and Ken Levy to world markets. |
Sep 01, 1993 | Trading Electronically Comes of Age: Rocket Science Becomes Daily Trading Tool | |
by Kenneth N. Levy, Presentation to the New York Society of Security Analysts Conference “Financial Investment Management,” September 1993: Electronic trading can offer benefits of low cost and anonymity versus trading the old-fashioned way. |
Jul 26, 1993 | Funds Adding Managers | |
Pensions & Investments, July 26, 1993: New York State & Local Retirement Systems hires Jacobs Levy to run $50 million in equities. |
Jun 07, 1993 | Two-Sided Bets | |
by Martin J. Gross, Barron’s, June 7, 1993: Jacobs Levy favors a market neutral approach to long-short investing. |
May 01, 1993 | The Long and Short of It | |
by Kenneth N. Levy, Presentation to the Association for Investment Management and Research Conference “The Ripple that Starts the Wave,” May 1993: Long-short portfolio management can entail complications not found in long-only management. Most of these are related to short selling. The benefits of long-short... portfolios should outweigh the added effort. read more + |
Mar 01, 1993 | A Long-Plus-Short Market Neutral Strategy | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs and Kenneth N. Levy, Presentation to the Association for Investment Management and Research Conference ... market will not be efficient and stocks that are overpriced (short sale candidates) are likely to outnumber stocks that are underpriced (purchase candidates). A long-short portfolio can take full advantage of this. read more + |
Oct 30, 1992 | Instinet Secures Its Place On Desks Of Money Managers As Volume Hits Critical Mass | |
Investment Management Technology, October 30, 1992: Having spent three years developing portfolio management systems, Bruce Jacobs and Ken Levy favor Instinet for efficiency of trades, especially for OTC stocks. |
Mar 30, 1992 | Georgia-Pacific Hires Jacobs Levy in Shakeup | |
Money Management Letter, March 30, 1992: Georgia-Pacific has hired Jacobs Levy to run a quantitative-oriented large cap account as part of a reshuffling of its equity portfolio. |
Mar 16, 1992 | Magnificent or Mediocre? | |
by Joel Chernoff, Pensions & Investments, March 16, 1992: Alternative trading systems such as Instinet are on the rise in part, says Ken Levy, because they provide "another source of low-cost liquidity." |
Mar 01, 1992 | Details of DuPont Mandates Revealed | |
Global Investor, March 1992: Seeking its first external managers for a $200 million portion of its equity portfolio, du Pont assigns a piece to Jacobs Levy, a quantitative manager that uses unique research to identify multiple market anomalies. |
Mar 01, 1992 | Structured Investing: Tomorrow’s World. The Evolution from Passive to Active | |
by Chuck Epstein, Global Custodian, March 1992: Jacobs Levy routinely scans 3000 stocks through some 50 screens searching for candidates to includes in its strategies. |
Dec 09, 1991 | Electronic Trading Use on the Rise | |
by Joel Chernoff, Pensions & Investments, December 9, 1991: Jacobs Levy, which manages more than $800 million, trades hundreds of stocks at a time almost exclusively on electronic trading systems such as the NYSE’s DOT system, Instinet, POSIT, and Morgan Stanley’s MatchPlus, in search for liquidity and low transaction costs. |
Nov 11, 1991 | Picking Stock Pickers: Budge Collins Brings Years of Experience to Finding Money Managers | |
by Jaye Scholl, Barron’s, November 11, 1991: Ken Levy, "one of the leading practitioners" of market neutral investing, attended the annual conference of Budge Collins, Newport Beach, California, pension consultant. |
Nov 01, 1991 | Market Neutral Equity Strategies | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs, Presentation to the New York Society of Security Analysts, November 1991: An equity strategy that exploits both long and short positions can improve upon the return/risk ratio. |
Nov 01, 1991 | What’s Behind Hedged Portfolios: Practical Approaches to Long-Short Strategies | |
by Kenneth N. Levy, Presentation to the Society of Quantitative Analysts, November 1991: Creating a long-short equity portfolio requires purchasing securities that are expected to perform well and selling short a roughly equal dollar amount of securities that are expected to perform poorly. When the portfolio is designed so that... the market sensitivities of the overall long and short positions are equal, the portfolio will be relatively insensitive to broad market movements. read more + |
Sep 16, 1991 | Market Neutral Funds Gain Fans | |
by Terry Williams, Pensions & Investments, September 16, 1991: Says partner Bruce Jacobs of the firm’s approach, “We build portfolios that have a large number of market inefficiencies built in so that we are well diversified across a large number of these market inefficiencies." |
Jun 01, 1991 | Has Value Investing Lost its Value? | |
by Julie Rohrer, Institutional Investor, June 1991: In this critique of value investing, Jacobs Levy is highlighted for eschewing traditional value investing in favor of an approach that seeks to untangle myriad sources of return in a complex stock market. Bruce Jacobs says, unbundled and separated out these effects...that’s the true insight... we’ve had—the notion of disentangling all the effects from one another; that way you can measure and monitor them all individually." read more + |
Mar 20, 1991 | How Jacobs and Levy Crunch Stocks for Buying—and Selling | |
by James A. White, Wall Street Journal, March 20, 1991: After years of research, Jacobs Levy is off to a fast start since beginning to manage portfolios for institutional investors; Jacobs Levy attribute their success to their thorough, multidimensional approach. ... together," says Charles A. D’Ambrosio, Editor of Financial Analysts Journal. read more +view article |
Sep 17, 1990 | Allocation Strategy Takes Step Beyond Value | |
Pensions & Investments, September 17, 1990: Warren A. Johnson of consultant Johnson Portfolio Strategy group notes: “Work published a couple of years ago in the Financial Analysts Journal … by Bruce Jacobs and Kenneth Levy showed there are significant areas that are not explained by simple value measures.” |
Jul 01, 1990 | Leaning Towards Tilt Funds? | |
by Mark Tapley and Frank Naylor, Global Investor, July/August 1990: In discussing the exploitation of market inefficiencies identified by careful analysis of equity data bases, this article notes that Bruce Jacobs and Ken Levy’s "Disentangling Equity Return Regularities: New Insights and Investment Opportunities"... (Financial Analysts Journal, May/June 1988) is "a key work." read more + |
Apr 01, 1990 | Stock Market Complexity and Investment Opportunity | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs and Kenneth N. Levy, Presentation to the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (Q Group) Conference ... A complex market is one in which numerous, interrelated factors create regularities that offer opportunities for profitable investing. Detecting and exploiting these opportunities requires examining the factors simultaneously, in a multivariate framework. read more + |
May 01, 1989 | Equity Evaluation Methods and Strategies: From Tried and True to New | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs, Presentation to the Financial Analysts Federation Conference “Challenging the 90s,” May 1989: Simple approaches to investing, such as “buy low P/E” or “buy small cap stocks” don’t work in a stock market that is complex. A complex market requires a multidimensional, quantitative approach. |
May 01, 1989 | Graham and Dodd Awards for 1988 | |
Financial Analysts Journal, May/June 1989: Bruce Jacobs and Kenneth Levy receive a Graham and Dodd Award for “Disentangling Equity Return Regularities: New Insights and Investment Opportunities,” published in the May/June 1988 Financial Analysts Journal. |
Apr 25, 1989 | That Low-P/E Gold Might Really Be Lead | |
by Barbara Donnelly, Wall Street Journal, April 25, 1989: When markets turn down, Ken Levy warns, “low-P/E stocks are often the first hit because they tend to be smaller, riskier, more fragile companies. In full-blown bear markets, however, low-P/E stocks perform well, largely because these stocks’ high dividend yields cushion returns.” |
Apr 01, 1989 | How Dividend Discount Models Can Be Used to Add Value | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs and Kenneth N. Levy, Presentation to the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts Conference ... environments. A fuller and truer picture emerges when one considers multiple factors that affect value. read more + |
Jan 24, 1989 | Timing Stock Decisions Can Boost Returns | |
by Leo Fasciocco, Investor’s Business Daily, January 24, 1989: Ken Levy notes that "A lot of the declines on Mondays have to do with psychology," but there are more fundamental reasons, too, why Mondays tend to be down days for stocks. |
Jan 10, 1989 | For Savvy Investors, Timing is Money | |
by Patrick Bloomfield, Financial Post (Toronto), January 10, 1989: Bruce Jacobs and Ken Levy’s latest article in Financial Analysts Journal is recommended as "must reading" for investors interested in finding out how to take advantage of calendar and other (often psychologically-motivated) time effects. |
Mar 07, 1988 | Web of ‘Regularities’ Leads to Opportunity | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs and Kenneth N. Levy, Pensions & Investments, March 7, 1988: Jacobs and Levy, drawing on their work to be published in Financial Analysts Journal, discuss why return regularities exist and how understanding their sources can open the door to investment opportunities. They say: ... conventional investment theory, including market efficiency, investor rationality and value-based pricing, are suspect. In an inefficient market, investment opportunities are bountiful, and an empirical walk down Wall Street produces new insights and novel investment ideas." read more +download PDF |
Nov 16, 1987 | Viewpoint on Portfolio Insurance: It’s Prone to Failure | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs, Pensions & Investment Age, November 16, 1987: Portfolio insurance failed to protect during the 1987 crash. In fact, it contributed to the market break that caused its demise. Jacobs finds that "the explosive growth of the portfolio insurance industry has exhibited the characteristics of a fad, whose bubble has now burst." |
Nov 12, 1987 | Being in S&P 500 May Affect Stock Prices | |
by Barbara Donnelly, Wall Street Journal, November 12, 1987: Ken Levy says "stock investors should consider S&P 500 indexed mutual funds to be more risky than the market as a whole," because in bear markets S&P stocks stand to lose the premium they tend to enjoy in bull markets. |
Sep 01, 1987 | Disentangling Equity Return Regularities | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs and Kenneth N. Levy, Presentation to the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts Conference ... Disentangling them via multivariate analysis allows one to arrive at "pure" returns. read more + |
Apr 20, 1987 | Monday Puzzle: Stock Market Lags Other Days | |
by George Anders, Wall Street Journal, April 20, 1987: Bruce Jacobs notes that the tendency of stocks to dip on Monday is one factor Jacobs Levy examines when looking to trade, but not the dominant factor. |
Feb 01, 1987 | Investment Management: Opportunities in Anomalies | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs and Kenneth N. Levy, Pension World, February 1987: Jacobs and Levy discuss systematic patterns of stock price behavior that are anomalous in the context of efficient market theory and explain how disentangling these patterns would allow investors to exploit the true sources of expected return. |
Oct 14, 1986 | Investors Rush for Portfolio Insurance: Skeptics Worry About Effects on Stock Markets | |
by George Anders, Wall Street Journal, October 14, 1986: According to Bruce Jacobs, "In a fast-moving market, portfolio insurance users can get bagged." |
Sep 29, 1986 | Jacobs, Levy Firm | |
Pensions & Investment Age, September 29, 1986: Bruce I. Jacobs and Kenneth N. Levy have left their posts as senior managing director and managing director, respectively, of Eagle Rock Asset Management, a subsidiary of the Prudential Insurance Co. of America, to start their own money management firm... Jacobs Levy Equity Management will provide quantitative equity management designed to capture stock market anomalies. read more + |
Sep 01, 1986 | Hidden Risks in Portfolio Insurance | |
by Daniel Forbes, Dun’s Business Month, September 1986: In this assessment of portfolio insurance, Bruce Jacobs talks of the strategy’s shortfalls and has the last word: "Everyone has a natural tendency to avoid sleepless nights. Portfolio insurance is performance insurance for money managers and career insurance for corporate pension officers." |
Sep 01, 1986 | Anomaly Capture Strategies | |
Bruce I. Jacobs and Kenneth N. Levy, Presentation to the University of California-Berkeley Program in Finance Conference "The Behavior of Security Prices: Market Efficiency, Anomalies and Trading Strategies," September 1986: Detecting and exploiting anomalies in stock price behavior requires a multidimensional approach. |
Aug 01, 1986 | Flocking to Hear the Dynamic ‘Gospel’ | |
Futures, August 1986: Coverage of the New York City conference at which Bruce Jacobs debated John O’Brien of Leland O’Brien Rubinstein Associates. |
Jul 07, 1986 | Portfolio Insurance’s Merits Spur Debate | |
by Trudy Ring, Pensions & Investment Age, July 7, 1986: In debating John O’Brien of portfolio insurance purveyor Leland O’Brien Rubinstein Associates, Bruce Jacobs notes that: "If one chooses to lock in gains today, one may be locking out gains tomorrow." |
Aug 20, 1984 | Broader Indexes Widen Horizons | |
by Kenneth N. Levy and Bruce I. Jacobs, Pensions & Investment Age, August 20, 1984: The S&P 500 is not truly representative of the U.S. equity market, and this has implications for investing. According to the authors, ... index funds for asset allocation decision-making." read more + |
Aug 22, 1983 | The Portfolio Insurance Puzzle | |
by Bruce I. Jacobs, Pensions & Investment Age, August 22, 1983: Bruce Jacobs describes portfolio insurance’s shortfalls and warns, ... longer-term performance of their portfolio." read more + |