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International Fama-French Portfolio and Factor Data<\/h6>\n

Regular readers know that my posts frequently utilize data from the Kenneth French data library<\/a>. The data library is an excellent resource for anyone interested in the small cap and value effects and the Fama-French 3 Factor model.<\/p>\n

Recently, I learned that the data library has been expanded to include data from developed equity markets other than the U.S.<\/a> This opens up a variety of interesting possibilities for further analysis!<\/p>\n

For a start, I created some plots of the small cap and value effects for each region in the new data set. The plots use the return data for the 25 portfolios sorted by size (market cap) and value (book\/market). \u00a0The z-axis on each plot shows the average monthly return (geometric) for each portfolio.\u00a0 The returns are U.S. dollar returns.<\/p>\n

In a previous post<\/a>, I created some similar plots for the U.S. market and provided some sample Octave code<\/a> for producing these plots.<\/p>\n

The color scale for each of the plots is tied to the magnitude of the monthly return, and the mapping between color and average return is consistent across plots. This makes it easy to compare returns between the different regions. \u00a0However, this color scaling does make the Japan plot a bit difficult to read since the average returns for Japan were much lower than the average returns for the other regions over the sample period.<\/p>\n

The new data set also includes the Fama-French 3 Factor model factors (RMRF, HML, and SMB) for each region. \u00a0I calculated the mean, standard deviation, Sharpe ratio, standard error, and t-stat for the factors for each region and included these results in a table below each plot.<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
GLOBAL<\/th>RMRF<\/th>SMB<\/th>HML<\/th>\n\t<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Mean<\/td>5.51%<\/td>1.71%<\/td>4.33%<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
Std<\/td>18.91%<\/td>9.33%<\/td>13.65%<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
Sharpe<\/td>0.291<\/td>0.183<\/td>0.317<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
StdE<\/td>4.13%<\/td>2.04%<\/td>2.98%<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
t-stat<\/td>1.33<\/td>0.841<\/td>1.45<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
EUROPE<\/th>RMRF<\/th>SMB<\/th>HML<\/th>\n\t<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Mean<\/td>6.74%<\/td>0.16%<\/td>5.12%<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
Std<\/td>21.68%<\/td>10.04%<\/td>13.56%<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
Sharpe<\/td>0.311<\/td>0.016<\/td>0.378<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
StdE<\/td>4.73%<\/td>2.19%<\/td>2.96%<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
t-stat<\/td>1.42<\/td>0.0711<\/td>1.73<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
JAPAN<\/th>RMRF<\/th>SMB<\/th>HML<\/th>\n\t<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Mean<\/td>-0.02%<\/td>0.36%<\/td>4.38%<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
Std<\/td>27.87%<\/td>11.45%<\/td>18.33%<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
Sharpe<\/td>-0.00085<\/td>0.0318<\/td>0.239<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
StdE<\/td>6.08%<\/td>2.50%<\/td>4.00%<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
t-stat<\/td>-0.00391<\/td>0.146<\/td>1.10<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
ASIA-PACIFIC ex JAPAN<\/th>RMRF<\/th>SMB<\/th>HML<\/th>\n\t<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Mean<\/td>12.42%<\/td>-0.01%<\/td>6.95%<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
Std<\/td>33.58%<\/td>12.66%<\/td>8.13%<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
Sharpe<\/td>0.370<\/td>-0.00079<\/td>0.855<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
StdE<\/td>7.33%<\/td>2.76%<\/td>1.78%<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
t-stat<\/td>1.70<\/td>-0.00362<\/td>3.92<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
NORTH AMERICA<\/th>RMRF<\/th>SMB<\/th>HML<\/th>\n\t<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Mean<\/td>7.96%<\/td>2.48%<\/td>3.74%<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
Std<\/td>18.93%<\/td>10.88%<\/td>16.52%<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
Sharpe<\/td>0.421<\/td>0.228<\/td>0.226<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
StdE<\/td>4.13%<\/td>2.37%<\/td>3.61%<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
t-stat<\/td>1.93<\/td>1.04<\/td>1.04<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n
Conclusions<\/h6>\n

The data are noisy and the sample periods are not long relative to the amount of variance. \u00a0The RMRF and HML premiums are economically large, but the SMB premiums are close to zero for several of the markets.\u00a0 Most of the t-stats for the various premiums are not statistically significant in the 21 year sample.<\/p>\n

Still, it is interesting that the plots generally show value outperforming growth, and this effect seems largest for small stocks.\u00a0 Small-growth is consistently a poor performer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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