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Tactical Strategies and The Anatomy of A Bear Market
The last few weeks have been some of the toughest in recent memory for investors, as we have observed an intense global market selloff that began in late February and continued into early March of 2020 (as of the writing of this report).
Keep ReadingFrom Fragility to Robustness: The Value of Ensembles – A Case Study in Robust Equity Momentum
We explore the mirror concepts of fragility & robustness using a slimmed-down version of the Newfound/ReSolve Robust Equity Momentum Index.
Keep ReadingGlobal Equity Momentum: A Craftsman’s Perspective – Executive Summary
Quantitative investment researchers often seek uniquely optimal parameterizations of their strategies amongst a broad “robust” region of parameter choices. However, this ignores a critically important feature of investing – Diversification. By diversifying across many equally legitimate parameter choices – an ensemble – investors may …
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Portfolio Optimization and the Sharpe Multiplier: A Case Study on Managed Futures
We’ve spent a great deal of time in past articles discussing the merits of portfolio optimization. In this article we will examine the merits and challenges of portfolio optimization in the context of one of the most challenging investment universes: managed futures.
Keep ReadingPortfolio Optimization: Simple versus Optimal Methods
Our whitepaper “The Optimization Machine: A General Framework for Portfolio Choice” presented a logical framework for thinking about portfolio optimization given specific assumptions regarding expected relationships between risk and return. We explored the fundamental roots of common portfolio …
Keep ReadingSame Same But Different
The goal of this article is to illustrate how seemingly inconsequential changes to the trading mechanics of a strategy, which have little impact on the long-term expected performance, can have a material impact on results in the short-term.
Keep ReadingPortfolio Optimization: A General Framework for Portfolio Choice
It is widely accepted among investment professionals that, while portfolio optimization has compelling theoretical merit, it is not useful in practice. Practitioners are concerned that optimization is an “error maximizing” ¹ process fraught with insurmountable estimation issues.
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