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The Best Investment Writing Volume 5: Selected Writing from Prominent Investors and Authors

The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing

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Long Short Factor Portfolios - The Long and Short Legs

Long short factor portfolios are typically constructed on the assumption that the two legs are complementary drivers of factor premiums. In practice, shorting individual stocks is not frictionless and involves additional costs such as borrowing fees. Researches have argued that factor premiums increase limits to arbitrage which are arguably more binding on the short side.

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