Monday, March 14, 2022

Financial Analysts Journal: Risk Management and Optimal Combination of Equity Market Factors

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

Combining factors in a multi-factor portfolio using forecast risk management can add substantially to investment returns. Backtesting showed such a strategy run over 54 years would have made annualized returns of 10.79%, vs. 7.77% for a similar non-risk-managed portfolio. Read more here.

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Financial Analysts Journal: Retirement Income Sufficiency through Personalised Glidepaths

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

Retiree income can be maximised by shifting focus from targeting wealth at retirement to income sufficiency through retirement with the use of personalised glidepaths instead of approaches that use demographic averages. Read more here.

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Financial Analysts Journal: Enhanced Portfolio Optimization

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Managers can improve the performance of the mean–variance approach by using enhanced portfolio optimization (EPO). EPO accounts for the noise in investors’ estimates of risk–return and, as a result, increases risk-adjusted performance. Read more here.

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Financial Analysts Journal: Factor Exposure Variation and Mutual Fund Performance

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

Mutual fund managers who frequently change exposure to investment factors (market, size, book-to-market, and momentum) perform significantly worse than those who make fewer changes. Read more here.

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Financial Analysts Journal: Boosting the Equity Momentum Factor in Credit

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

Investors can double alpha in the credit markets by using simple equity momentum strategies enhanced by applying machine learning with boosted regression trees. Read more here.

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Financial Analysts Journal: Should Mutual Fund Investors Time Volatility?

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

Investors in actively managed US equity mutual funds should decrease/increase their investment as fund volatility decreases/increases. This strategy significantly improves investment performance compared with a buy-and-hold approach. Read more here.

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Financial Analysts Journal: Chinese and Global ADRs -- The US Investor Experience

By SIMON CONSTABLE 

American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) have outperformed US stocks, with ADRs of Chinese companies doing particularly well. Read more here.

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