Strategies include equity long / short, options writing, asset - backed notes, private equity real estate, momentum - based strategies and
other quantitative strategies.
Nearly every
single quantitative strategy, thought to be the most sophisticated investing ideas in the world, was shredded to pieces, leading to billions in losses.
In turbulent and for institutional investors looking at both temporary exposure as well as
complex quantitative strategies, index investing is both more efficient from a risk perspective as well as significantly cheaper.
The architects of a
good quantitative strategy should have considered expensive markets in the course of the testing and the appropriate response should be built into the model.
Mario Randholm is the Portfolio Manager of the R Option Portfolio and the founder of Randholm & Co., an investment management company specializing
in quantitative strategies, serving clients globally.
Ioulia Tretiakova, vice-president and director of
Quantitative Strategies at PUR Investing Inc. (which manages constant - risk models for Horizons ETFs), says going «net short» has negative expected returns and is a form of market timing.
Thomas Luster is a vice president of Eaton Vance Management, and director of Eaton Vance's
quantitative strategies team within diversified fixed income.
-LSB-...] Benjamin Graham's
simple quantitative strategies over the 37 years he since he described it (Examining Benjamin Graham's Record: Skill Or Luck?).
Last week I wrote about the performance of one of Benjamin Graham's simple
quantitative strategies over the 37 years he since he described it (Examining Benjamin Graham's Record: Skill Or Luck?).
In addition, we discuss the importance of having an investment game plan, provide commentary on the optimal number of stocks for a portfolio and discuss what we have learned in over a decade of
following quantitative strategies.
RBC, or example, has developed a niche by offering sophisticated factor -
based quantitative strategies through its family of ETFs, rather than introducing me - too products that track the performance of broad market averages, Davis says.
John Authers concludes «buying into funds that keep costs low by following
disciplined quantitative strategies to invest in value, high dividend, or small - cap stocks, or to harness the momentum effect, looks like a great idea».
I wrote for several years as RM about overleveraging credit, mis - hedging, yield - seeking, over-investment in residential real estate (May 2005), subprime lending (November 2006),
quantitative strategies gone awry, etc..
While Quantitative Strategies for Achieving Alpha would obviously appeal to so called «quants», I also think it is a book that value investors should not overlook.
Prior to his current role, Keith spent 9 years as a Portfolio Manager in the Direct Implementation group where he managed both US
active quantitative strategies and passive global REITs.
Stewart Taylor is a vice president of Eaton Vance Management and a portfolio manager on Eaton Vance's
quantitative strategies team within diversified fixed income.
Before that, Sunjiv was head of
quantitative strategies at Trafalgar Capital Management and portfolio manager at JP Morgan Asset Management.
Another widely used valuation ratio that Richard Tortoriello examined in his
book Quantitative Strategies for Achieving Alpha is the P / E ratio.
Thirty Years to Here: How the Market Grew «Passive» The growth of «passive» investing through index funds and
quantitative strategies over fundamental analysis and stock picking isn't something that just happened overnight.
Ioulia Tretiakova, director of
quantitative strategies for PŮR Investing, says while ETFs have tax - efficient characteristics, some have shocked investors at tax time.
Hedge funds, which are often early adopters of new investment methods, are spurring the development
of quantitative strategies, which trade using mathematical, or algorithmic, models.
«In an election year, the market typically peaks and trends downward» six months before the voting date, noted Savita Subramanian, Bank of America Merrill Lynch's head of U.S. equity &
quantitative strategy, in a May interview with Bloomberg TV.
Yet Renaissance Technologies, which invests using computer algorithms and
quantitative strategies, has seemed impervious to these pressures.
Katie Stockton, Fairlead Strategies founder and managing partner, and Savita Subramanian, BofA Merrill Lynch head of U.S. equity and
quantitative strategy, weigh in on where they are seeing the best investment opportunities.
Taken as a whole the move towards indexing, ETFs and
quantitative strategies is putting pressure on revenues for many firms.