Industry Illusions

Global 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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The Black Box: Eyewitness Testimony and Investment Models

Multiple discovery suggests that the most valuable, achievable advances in a field are often being examined simultaneously – yet independently – by many people at the same time.  It stands to reason that on these occasions, leaps in logic can often occur at the same time by independent parties.

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A fool thinks himself to be wise

As a team whose principals have spent thousands of hours accumulating academic credentials and experience in a fairly narrow field of expertise – public markets – we are endlessly fascinated with peoples’ optimism about their ability to succeed independently in this hyper-competitive domain.

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Don’t Fear the (Alpha) Reaper

Let us preface this article by saying that we can’t for the life of us figure out why any investor cares about beating the market in the first place. To us, the whole concept of beating the market is a red herring. The only people who should be concerned with beating the market are investment managers themselves, because their compensation is directly tied to this specific objective.

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