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title: Asset Pricing with Cumulants
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/7636458/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-10-23
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 7636458
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7636458
featured: 2026-10-23
citations: unknown
topic: Asset Pricing & Factors
---


# Asset Pricing with Cumulants

Log expected excess returns decompose exactly into joint cumulants of returns and the stochastic discount factor, explaining thirty-one anomaly factors with three structural parameters.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7636458
- Identifier: SSRN 7636458
- Released: 2026-10-20
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 136 (2026-10-23): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2026-10-23/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Asset Pricing & Factors
- Authors: Robert Parham, Mihail Velikov, Han Xiao

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