Not exact matches
«Through the first two months of the year, long / short
equity hedge funds and mutual funds were
neutral the market but long growth
stocks, which helped underpin outperformance through the January - February sell - off.
SUMMARY It's difficult to rationalise why there should be excess returns from high quality
stocks The Quality factor needs to be constructed beta -
neutral to achieve positive returns Exposure to the Quality factor is an attractive hedge for an
equity - centric portfolio INTRODUCTION The concept of
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neutral now, because the supply of cash to invest in high yield bonds,
stock IPOs, and private
equity is substantial.
White their
neutral weighting is 60/40 between
stocks / bonds, the managers adjust the balance between
equity and debt based on which universe is most attractively positioned.
Whereas managed futures and global macro strategies take advantage of diverging prices at a macro level (U.S
equities vs. Japanese
equities, or Australian dollar vs. the Euro), market
neutral funds take advantage of differences in individual
stock price performance.
In
equity market -
neutral funds, managers try to exploit market inefficiencies by purchasing one
stock they think will rise and shorting another in the same industry they think will fall, thus cancelling out any changes in overall market levels.
Equity Market
Neutral, or EMN, goes long global
stocks that score well on proprietary composite measures and shorts global
stocks that score poorly.
Equity market P / E ratios at the time my edition of the book was published were around 15 and he was advocating a
neutral stance (50 % common
stocks, 50 % bonds).
That is how the returns play out for
equity -
neutral strategies, which bet on
stocks either rising or falling in value.
After Quality
stocks continued to rally through January, our forecasts for the group fell, leading us to sell down our remaining long Quality
equity position (though we retain exposure to a beta -
neutral expression of Quality, per below).