# Professor Baruch Lev's "Knowledge Effect" research is featured

1 Faculty News October 11, 2016 ![Ticker Magazine logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/ticker192x144.jpg?itok=S14Th9zh)>

Excerpt from [Ticker Magazine](http://www.ticker.com/?page=mutual_funds&fundname=Gavekal-KL-Allocation-Fund&id=1042) -- "The Knowledge Effect is grounded in academic literature. It was first discovered in a series of studies in the 1990s, when NYU’s [Baruch Lev](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/baruch-lev) analyzed 20 years of financial data and discovered an association between a firm’s level of knowledge capital and its subsequent stock performance."

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