PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Stefano M.F.G Cavaglia AU - James Sefton AU - Alan Scowcroft AU - Bryn Smith TI - Global Style Investing AID - 10.3905/jpm.2006.644188 DP - 2006 Jul 31 TA - The Journal of Portfolio Management PG - 10--22 VI - 32 IP - 4 4099 - https://pm-research.com/content/32/4/10.short 4100 - https://pm-research.com/content/32/4/10.full AB - Value-tilted global equity portfolios that are either region-neutral or industry-neutral have particular risk and return properties relative to the world index. Over 1993-2005, a global country-neutral value-tilted investment strategy earned a premium of about 1.5% per year over the world return: this comes as a result of bearing some systematic cyclical risk that is highly correlated with the performance of particular industries and also with growth-like factors. A global industry-neutral value-tilted investment strategy offers a similar return payoff but with less volatility; this return premium does not appear to be associated with any of the systematic risk factors considered, so an industry-neutral strategy seems to be the more appropriate for capturing the global value premium. Index vendors might consider constructing benchmarks that reflect this investment style.TOPICS: Style investing, global, mutual funds/passive investing/indexing