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Written by Anna German
Updated over a week ago

Rev. Date May 30, 2019

For the factor returns, we use overlapping weekly returns to minimize the impact of market asynchronicity. We previously explored more sophisticated techniques (e.g. predictive PCA), but found that the complexity offered little added value.

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