It might be a while before we see a purely
quantitative value fund, or at least a fund that acknowledges that it is one.
Not exact matches
The Cambria's Global
Value ETF, a
fund based on Faber's
quantitative screen for cheap international stocks, posted 33 percent return for the 12 - month period ending June 30.
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».
Cornerstone
Value Fund Portfolio Manager Brian Peery discusses the
Fund's
quantitative investment strategy, which seeks large, widely held dividend - yielding companies.
Using DFA's proven fundamental and
quantitative models, the
fund invests in small - and mid-cap stocks that are true
value stocks and holds them until they no longer fit the
fund's model.
Equities includes single country, regional and global
funds, small and mid-cap
funds, growth,
value and
quantitative strategies, and defensive strategies to reduce market risk.
We compare the performance of our
quantitative value model with the performance of several well - known
value investing mutual
funds.
First, consider two
value funds; Vanguard's Value ETF (VTV), and ValueShares U.S Quantitative (Q
value funds; Vanguard's
Value ETF (VTV), and ValueShares U.S Quantitative (Q
Value ETF (VTV), and ValueShares U.S
Quantitative (QVAL).
The DTAYS
Quantitative Growth
Fund is currently sitting at a
value of $ 108,154.52, which represents a positive return of 8.15 % on the year.
The DTAYS
Quantitative Growth
Fund finished the week with a
value of $ 108,258.72, which represents a return of 8.26 % on the year.
absolute return, alternative assets, closed - end
funds, currency allocation, distressed assets, emerging markets, frontier markets, FX rates, home bias investing, NAV discount, portfolio allocation,
quantitative easing, real assets, special situations,
value investing
Thus, in the Equity Hedge category, we classified Equity Market Neutral and
Quantitative Directional as quantitative hedge funds and Fundamental Growth and Fundamental Value as qualitative
Quantitative Directional as
quantitative hedge funds and Fundamental Growth and Fundamental Value as qualitative
quantitative hedge
funds and Fundamental Growth and Fundamental
Value as qualitative categories.
We also did not classify any of the Relative
Value funds, even though many of these
funds use
quantitative techniques, because the broader descriptions left us no clear cut way to divide them.
The former is a
value oriented manager associated with the Janus
Funds with 20 billion AUM while the latter is «a
quantitative value equity manager providing active management for institutional investors» with $ 58 million AUM.
A couple of suggested topics that I think you could do a job with: 1)
Quantitative view of how to evaluate closed end
funds trading at a discount to NAV with a given NAV and discount history, fee / cost structure, and dividend history; 2) How to evaluate the fundamentals of the return of capital distributions from MLPs — e.g. what fraction of them is true dividend and what fraction is true return of capital and how should one arrive at a reasonable profile of the future to put a DCF
value on it?
The firm's multi-strategy hedge
funds employ various
quantitative, relative
value and computerized statistical arbitrage strategies.