Barra's new model employs premium input datasets including Point - In - Time fundamental data and provides insight into the sources of risk and return with Systematic
Equity Strategy factors.
It includes Systematic
Equity Strategy factors to help managers measure sensitivities to potentially crowded trades as well as a comprehensive set of fundamental factors based on point - in - time data, essential for building and back testing investment strategies.
Not exact matches
He points to a stronger dollar, fiscal retrenchment in the European Union, improving
equity market confidence, and an exit
strategy from the Federal Reserve forecasting a federal funds rate hike well before late 2014 as significant
factors driving gold lower.
The portfolio management team uses a variety of investment
strategies to search for companies suitable for investment in the fund, including
factors such as growth in earnings, return on
equity, and revenue.
A number of
factors — such as rising US interest rates, the recurrence of big fluctuations in global currencies, and the widening dispersion of
equity returns across sectors and regions — may have helped to create an increasingly conducive environment for hedge - fund
strategies, which have seen a positive turnaround in performance in recent quarters.
June 1, 2016: A recent paper published by MSCI shows that Systematic
Equity Strategy (SES)
factors earned positive returns over a 20 - year period.
As we pointed out in our post last week, a withdrawal rate
strategy should respond to market
factors like
equity valuations and bond yields as well as personal
factors like age, retirement horizon, and expectations about pension and Social Security benefits.
The model is enriched with Barra Descriptors, the building blocks of the model's
factors, which are available for the first - time ever for U.K.
equity investors as a valuable tool for alpha research and
strategy evaluation.
Equity analysts now consider climate change - related
factors in company valuations, translating sustainability into a new value driver distinct from a marketing
strategy.
The
strategy selects
equity securities of REITs exhibiting a favorable combination of
factor characteristics, including quality, momentum, and value.
One of the great anomalies of investing: The historical long - term outperformance of certain smart beta or
factor - based
strategies relative to the broader
equity market (think choosing stocks based on their valuations, momentum, low volatility or quality metrics such as profitability).
Equity smart beta
strategies like momentum, value, quality and minimum volatility are by far the most adopted
factor strategies and often serve as the gateway to this type of investing.
There are a number of
factors one should evaluate before investing in an
equity indexed annuity (including but not limited to: rates, indexes, crediting
strategies, surrender charges, surrender fees, riders, etc.).
Of course, there are many other
factors that go into the decision on when to buy or sell a home, but the overall
strategy to increase the
equity in your home remains.
By emphasizing these two
factors, the Fund attempts to provide a diversified
equity income
strategy emphasizing durable dividend payers.
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Our stylized portfolios that blend six
factors (volatility, value, quality, size, momentum, and dividend yield) with four different
strategies (marginal risk contribution, minimum variance, Sharpe - ratio weighted, and
equity weighted) demonstrated higher risk - adjusted returns than the S&P 500 ®, with a lower tracking error than most single -
factor strategies (see Exhibit 1).
Our research shows that the benefits of international diversification extend to
equity factor strategies.
For example, a single -
factor smart beta product may be used as part of a completion
strategy in order to lend more exposure to lower beta stocks to an
equity portfolio with a higher risk profile,» explains Mellon Capital.
We confidently conclude from our study of
factors that such smart beta
strategies offer a significant opportunity for future value - add relative to the capitalization - weighted
equity market.
«
Equity risk remains the dominant risk factor within an investor's asset allocation, driving both corporate and public pension plans to continue their focus on reducing funding volatility by adjusting their asset allocation into strategies that are traditionally uncorrelated to equity corrections and drawdowns,» says Chris Adair, Senior Managing Director, Ryan
Equity risk remains the dominant risk
factor within an investor's asset allocation, driving both corporate and public pension plans to continue their focus on reducing funding volatility by adjusting their asset allocation into
strategies that are traditionally uncorrelated to
equity corrections and drawdowns,» says Chris Adair, Senior Managing Director, Ryan
equity corrections and drawdowns,» says Chris Adair, Senior Managing Director, Ryan Labs.
The IFA indexing investment
strategy is based on principles generally known as Modern Portfolio Theory and the Fama and French Three
Factor Model for
Equities and Two
Factor Model for Fixed Income.
In the note space,
equity is a huge
factor in aligning your due diligence with about 7 different exit
strategies.