Continuing our “Summer of Sustainability,” we’ll be examining the KPIs that have driven returns for the
Social portion of “Environmental, Social, & Governance” over the past 5 years. We’ll also provide an update on market and factor (US & Worldwide) trends over the past week. Of particular note, we’ve seen recent strength in Profitability and Earnings Yield, while Size has taken a...
Continuing our series on sustainable investing, we’ll be digging into the Environmental pillar of ESG in order to determine the specific KPI that the market has valued most within that bucket over the past 5 years. Our market and factor (US & Worldwide) updates will follow, with our chief takeaways being that Earnings Yield is surging in the US, while Market Sensitivity and...
Since the kickoff of our “Summer of Sustainability,” we’ve been truly encouraged by the feedback we’ve received from our readers. It’s apparent that not only has interest in ESG among investors been growing over time, but that allocators are increasingly demanding that money managers incorporate an ESG framework in their strategies. Because ESG is such a potentially nebulous...
We hope you enjoyed your Fourth of July with your family while we took the week off to do the same. Continuing our “Summer of Sustainability” series, we’ll begin discussion on how to create a true ESG (Environmental, Social, & Governance) portfolio. This week, we’ll dig into performance trends in our aggregate ESG portfolio to determine how sector biases can affect portfolio...
The past few years have seen the emergence of ESG (Environmental, Social, & Governance) investing. The trend has taken hold as fund managers, allocators, and the general public now place increasing levels of import on sustainable investment. The difficulty with any new investing framework is being able to separate signal from noise, and to that end we’re happy to introduce our ESG...
We’ve spent the past couple of weeks focusing on Momentum and Growth (both of which are continuing to revert to the mean on a normalized basis). Today, we’re going to pull back the lens and examine factor trends in our US and Worldwide models, in order to identify some other themes that are playing out right now.
Last week, we discussed how Growth and Momentum are both overbought in our normalized return framework, and urged caution to managers who are long exposure to those factors (most notably Tech investors). This week, we have an update on how these factors have trended (spoiler alert: Momentum is now reverting) and see what we can learn from historical instances when Growth and...
Today, we'll be taking a break from examining current trade entanglements through the lens of the Exchange Rate Sensitivity factor. Instead we'll check in on Growth and Medium-Term Momentum, two factors that have seen rapid gains in our normalized return framework over the past few weeks. They've both recently been flagged as Overbought and Extremely Overbought, respectively, and...
As US trade news continues to dominate headlines and the market, we'll resume our examination of Chinese and US stocks through the lens of the Exchange Rate Sensitivity factor. This time, we'll be decomposing exposure to this factor in both countries at the sector level, to gain an understanding of what industries are most represented and to see what differences we can identify...
Last week we looked at the impact of ongoing US / China trade tensions in the context of Chinese stocks through the lens of the Exchange Rate Sensitivity factor. In doing so, we were able to connect the impact that trade events had on Chinese net exporters and net importers. Today, we'll use the same analysis to examine US exporters/importers in our US model.First, we'll start with...
