Insights & Whitepapers
Acuitas Insights and Whitepapers
- The Case for International Small and Microcap (October 2017)
- Active Microcap - A Private Equity Alternative (September 2017)
- How Do Microcap and Small Cap Perform When Yields Are Rising? (October 2015)
- Small Stocks and the Market Correction (August 2015)
- The NYSE Trading Halt and Its Impact on Microcap Stocks (July 2015)
- Shrinking Risk Budgets and Smart Beta: Using Microcap and International Small Cap to Improve Returns (October 2013)
- Measuring the Opportunity for Active Management (February 2012)
Research from Others
- Signs of a Turnaround for Active Equity Management (Michael A. Ervolini, October 2017)
- Nowhere to Hide: Focused Active Asset Managers Outperform (Northill Capital, August 2016)
- Replicating Private Equity with Value Investing, Homemade Leverage, and Hold-to-Maturity Accounting (Erik Stafford, December 2015)
- Are Investors Better Off with Small Hedge Funds in Times of Crisis? (Andrew Clare, Dirk Nitzsche, Nick Motson, July 2015)
- "Our results indicate that there is a strong, negative relationship between hedge fund performance and size."
- Mutual Fund Trading Costs and Diseconomies of Scale (Jeffrey Busse, Tarun Chordia, Lei Jiang, Yuehua Tang, March 2015)
- Microcap as an Alternative to Private Equity (Chris Meredith, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, November 2015)
- Scale and Skill in Active Management (Lubos Pastor, Robert F. Stambaugh, Lucian Taylor, September 2013)
- Conviction in Equity Investing (Mike Sebastian, November 2012)
- Tail Risk and Hedge Fund Returns (Bryan Kelly and Hao Jiang, May 2012)