Alpha Architect, LLC

Alpha Architect, LLC

Established in 2010, Alpha Architect is dedicated to empowering investors through comprehensive education. We are an asset management firm driven by research, concentrating on high-conviction value and momentum factor strategies. Our goal is to provide “Affordable Alpha,” which refers to unique investment strategies offered at lower costs, increasing sophisticated investors' chances of success after accounting for fees and taxes. We currently provide Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs), and white-label ETF services. We hold several core principles: 1) Transparency, 2) Evidence-Based Investing, 3) Systematic Decision Making, and 4) Client relationships that are mutually beneficial. Our firm is located in the suburbs of Philadelphia, PA, and we proudly identify as a service-disabled and minority-owned business.

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  • 1 week ago | alphaarchitect.com | Larry Swedroe

    ||Categories: Research Insights, Factor Investing, Larry Swedroe, Other Insights, Tactical Asset Allocation Research|Christian Goulding and Campbell Harvey, authors of the study “Investment Base Pairs,” proposed a groundbreaking framework for portfolio construction that challenges traditional approaches in modern finance. Their research focused on leveraging cross-asset information to optimize investment strategies and improve returns across diverse asset classes.

  • 3 weeks ago | alphaarchitect.com | Larry Swedroe

    In his 2013 paper “The Other Side of Value: The Gross Profitability Premium,” Robert Novy-Marx documented that profitability, broadly measured, has as much power as relative price in predicting cross-sectional differences in expected returns. With the publication of that paper, profitability quickly become a prominent theme in asset pricing research. For example, Dimensional began incorporating profitability into its systematic factor-based strategies almost immediately.

  • 1 month ago | alphaarchitect.com | Larry Swedroe

    The financial research literature has found that the performance of assets (and factors)  can vary substantially across regimes (for example, see here and here)—factor premiums can be regime dependent. Unfortunately, the real-time identification of the current economic regime is one of the biggest challenges in finance.

  • 1 month ago | alphaarchitect.com | Larry Swedroe

    Momentum is a financial anomaly in which buying stocks with positive past returns and selling the negative yielding ones has delivered positive returns.

  • 2 months ago | alphaarchitect.com | Larry Swedroe

    —Important DisclosuresFor informational and educational purposes only and should not be construed as specific investment, accounting, legal, or tax advice. Certain information is deemed to be reliable, but its accuracy and completeness cannot be guaranteed. Third party information may become outdated or otherwise superseded without notice.