Global Tactical Cross-Asset Allocation: Applying Value and Momentum Across Asset Classes

David Blitz and Pim Vliet

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Abstract: In this paper we examine global tactical asset allocation (GTAA) strategies across a broad range of asset classes. Contrary to market timing for single asset classes and tactical allocation across similar assets, this topic has received little attention in the existing literature. Our main finding is that momentum and value strategies applied to GTAA across twelve asset classes deliver statistically and economically significant abnormal returns. For a long top-quartile and short bottom-quartile portfolio based on a combination of momentum and value signals we find a return of 12% per annum over the 1986-2007 period. Performance is stable over time, also present in an out-of-sample period and sufficiently high to overcome transaction costs in practice. The return cannot be explained by potential structural biases towards asset classes with high risk premiums, nor the Fama French and Carhart hedge factors. We argue that financial markets may be macro inefficient due to insufficient ‘smart money’ being available to arbitrage mispricing effects away.

Keywords: GTAA; global asset allocation; momentum; value effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G11 G3 M (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-06-09
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