Investing with Style
January 2, 2015
Investors are bombarded with a variety of investment strategies and alternatives from an ever-growing and increasingly complex financial industry, each claiming to improve returns and reduce risk.
Systematic investing requires a rigorous, clear and consistent process for making investment decisions. Here, we delve into how this approach works in practice—and more importantly, why?
January 2, 2015
Investors are bombarded with a variety of investment strategies and alternatives from an ever-growing and increasingly complex financial industry, each claiming to improve returns and reduce risk.
Alternative Thinking
3Q 2017
Systematic and fundamental investing approaches are not opposites. Both pursue the same objective and can be fundamentally-oriented. They can use similar inputs, but in different ways, to try to improve investment performance. Neither is necessarily better than the other.
White Paper
May 1, 2013
We believe that style-based investing represents a better approach to traditional active equity portfolio management, by focusing on sources of excess returns that may be more pervasive and persistent. These factors include value, momentum and profitability.
Journal Article
June 30, 2016
We contrast two common approaches to long-only style investing: the “portfolio mix” and the “integrated portfolio.” Our results suggest that long-only factor or smart beta investors should consider integrating styles in portfolio construction.
Journal Article
November 5, 2015
Value investing has been a part of the investment lexicon for at least the better part of a century, yet confusion about it remains.
Journal Article
September 23, 2014
Momentum is the phenomenon that securities that have performed well relative to peers (winners) on average continue to outperform, and securities that have performed relatively poorly (losers) tend to continue to underperform.
Journal Article
December 8, 2014
Four investment “styles" have emerged as compelling sources of alternative returns, backed by economic theory and decades of data across geographies and asset groups.
Journal Article
June 1, 2013
We find consistent value and momentum return premia across eight diverse markets and asset classes, and a strong common factor structure among their returns.
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