In recent years, the worlds of sports and investment management have intersected in fascinating ways, creating new opportunities for growth…
How the Seattle windshield pitting epidemic is connected to data interpretation?
Seattle windshield pitting epidemic It happened in April 1954, the Seattle windshield pitting epidemic – a phenomenon that affected Bellingham,…
Quantitative Investing: From Smart Beta to Long-Short Risk Premia
Quantitative investment strategies, which are guided by sets of rules, aim to exploit market abnormalities in order to improve returns,…
Factor-Based Alpha Investment Strategies Are Risk Management Tools
Factor-driven alpha investment strategies, designed to manage risks within a portfolio while also delivering market-beating returns, come in a number…
Alpha Equity Factors: Expanding CAPM to Explain Superior Fund Returns
Traditional stock evaluation tools like the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) fail to explain why some underlying factors, or investment…
Momentum and Value Strategies
Momentum and value investment strategies target superior returns on a standalone basis, but can be combined to bring diversification and…
Evolution of the Smart Beta Strategy: Is Smart Alpha Next?
A number of developments in the financial sector paved the way for smart beta investing, including the rise of indexing…
Alpha, Beta and Other Risk-Return Gauges: a Brief Glossary
While all investors want to generate the best possible return on their capital, attitudes to risks vary greatly and so…
Smart Beta Strategies
Smart beta strategies use alternatively-constructed indices to take advantage of market inefficiencies and underlying risk factors. Factor-driven approaches have become…
Fund Managers Too Are Investing in Smart Beta Funds
Asset managers are increasingly wading into the world of alternative indices as their core mutual fund offerings risk losing out…
Excess Returns
Excess return, also known as alpha, is a measure of how much a fund has under or outperformed the benchmark…
Quantitative Alpha Strategies: Growing in the US, UK & Europe
Quantitative research can be applied to just about any industry, from physics and insurance to sports and even investing. Essentially…