Academics have identified hundreds of factors that supposedly explain stock returns. New research shows most of them are telling the same story in different words — and only a few truly distinct forces actually drive the market. The problem: too many factors, too little meaning.
Over the past few decades, academic researchers have proposed more than 400 factors — characteristics or variables, to explain why some stocks earn higher returns than others. There are value factors, momentum factors...
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