{"title":"Betting Against (Bad) Beta","authors":"Miguel C. Herculano","doi":"arxiv-2409.00416","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Frazzini and Pedersen (2014) Betting Against Beta (BAB) factor is based on\nthe idea that high beta assets trade at a premium and low beta assets trade at\na discount due to investor funding constraints. However, as argued by Campbell\nand Vuolteenaho (2004), beta comes in \"good\" and \"bad\" varieties. While gaining\nexposure to low-beta, BAB factors fail to recognize that such a portfolio may\ntilt towards bad-beta. We propose a Betting Against Bad Beta factor, built by\ndouble-sorting on beta and bad-beta and find that it improves the overall\nperformance of BAB strategies though its success relies on proper transaction\ncost mitigation.","PeriodicalId":501045,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - QuantFin - Portfolio Management","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"arXiv - QuantFin - Portfolio Management","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2409.00416","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Frazzini and Pedersen (2014) Betting Against Beta (BAB) factor is based on
the idea that high beta assets trade at a premium and low beta assets trade at
a discount due to investor funding constraints. However, as argued by Campbell
and Vuolteenaho (2004), beta comes in "good" and "bad" varieties. While gaining
exposure to low-beta, BAB factors fail to recognize that such a portfolio may
tilt towards bad-beta. We propose a Betting Against Bad Beta factor, built by
double-sorting on beta and bad-beta and find that it improves the overall
performance of BAB strategies though its success relies on proper transaction
cost mitigation.