All Factor Investing/Smart Beta articles – Page 3
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White papersActive multi-factor interest rate management
Quantitative alpha strategies in interest rate markets have repeatedly been questioned over recent years. Regular interventions by central banks – often running contrary to fundamental trends – were a challenge for the forecasting quality of numerous approaches. Yet it is possible to generate robust outperformance, even in difficult market conditions, by applying a diversified multi-factor rates overlay.
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White papersInnovative factors provide leading edge – on the potential of alternative data
An active, factor-based strategy focuses on tapping into new sources of data, on identifying relevant information and how to intelligently combine such information. Within this context alternative data – texts, images, or audio files – is becoming more important for the investment process, and regarding additional analytical value. At the same time, comprehensive and swift analysis requires state-of-the-art technology and plenty of experience.
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White papersAn alternative to traditional euro credit management: a smart beta credit approach incorporating ESG criteria
How should we approach bond management as the end of a bull market cycle un- precedented in terms of its size and duration begins? Over the past two decades, bond portfolios have been boosted by the steady fall in interest rates. This has reduced the importance of bond selection – all investors have needed to do to prosper has been to increase their portfolio’s duration and its exposure to credit risk and less liquid assets.
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White papersGet active about your passive
The evidence is mounting that investors have given up on trying to beat the market in US large caps. For example, Bloomberg recently reported that passively managed large cap US equity fund assets overtook actively managed large cap US equity fund assets at the end of 2018.
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White papersCross Asset Investment Strategy Special Edition: Outlook 2019
With late cycle features continuing to materialise and a higher level of vulnerability developing due to the uncertain geopolitical backdrop, 2019 will require investors to embrace a more prudent approach, despite the benign global economic outlook.
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White papersDeep dive in factor definitions and behaviors to better combine them
Anticipating the economic and financial environment evolution and its impact on equity market is not easy.
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White papersFactor Investing and Smart Beta Solutions
Smart Beta & Factor Investing strategies have been developed to address the two main limits of traditional market capitalization weighted indices.
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White papersOptimal blending of smart beta and multi-factor portfolios
There has been extraordinary growth in the use of smart beta funds by institutional investors, both large and small.
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White papersShould risk controlled equity be seen as a smart beta?
According to the Financial Times lexicon, “Smart beta strategies attempt to deliver a better risk and return trade off than traditional market cap weighted indices”.
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White papersFactor Investing: Avoiding the pitfalls
What Is Your General Experience Of Factor Investing?
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White papersFactor Investing: Avoiding the pitfalls
Factor investing has gained a lot of attention recently. DWS Quantitative Investments launched its first factor-based equity strategies in 2001, since when its approach has continued to evolve. In this Q&A we discuss some of the considerations we believe are key to successful factor investing.
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White papersMegatrends and disruptions: Consequences for asset management
The asset management industry has to face three different types of challenges.
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White papersAgeing Population: when a major demographic trend becomes an investment opportunity
At Generali Investments we believe it is important to focus on relevant structural trends and investment themes, presenting a growth potential that is largely driven by real economy factors.
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White papersFactor Investing: Diversifying risks to enhance long-term performance
For a long time, traditional equity investing has aimed at generating returns rather than managing risk. But in recent years institutional investors have started to change their attitude: mitigating risk is now more important than maximising returns.
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White papersValue resurrection on pause, but for how long?
Value investing has had a tough decade of underperformance. This seems to have led many investors to ignore the extensive research showing how value investing outperforms the market over longer time horizons, and today many are under-allocated to value stocks. However, history suggests that periods of value underperformance always end – and often they end abruptly - as we saw last year. The question is whether the factor rotation seen in the second half of 2016 was a one off event, or the beginning of a more sustainable comeback.
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Factor investing for government bonds beyond duration, currency and credit risk timing
The traditional investment approaches employed to generate active returns in the government bonds market focus essentially on actively timing duration, credit risk or currency exposure.
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Factor investing is not an asset class, it’s a solution-oriented philosophy
The naïve approach to single factor investing is to simply select the stocks that have the desired characteristic and to find a weighting scheme that doesn’t raise too many problems in terms of liquidity and diversification, i.e. usually linked to some extent to the original market capitalisation.
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The Four Principles of Style-Premia Selection
Factor investing, whereby the fundamental and technical drivers of securities are used to create diversifying strategies, has in recent years become democratised: it is now accessible to investors beyond those willing and able to pay hedge funds ‘two and twenty.’
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Factoring in the best approach
There continues to be a lot written and said about factor investing and, like any popular idea, there can be confusing and conflicting messages.
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White papersPractical applications of Smart Beta
How Amundi Smart Beta solutions can meet concrete investors’ needs
