
Identifying Alpha Opportunities Driven by Non-Fundamental Moves
April 05, 2020
First off, we hope that you and your loved ones remain healthy and safe, wherever you may be isolating during these difficult and troubling times. With the vast majority of us working from home these days, we’ve received many requests for educationally-oriented webinars, specifically those focused on investing during the current environment. Many of you had attended our joint webinars... |

Managing Your Portfolio in an Extreme US Factor Environment
March 29, 2020
We continue to hope that you and your loved ones remain healthy and safe as we all adopt the new norm of staying sheltered in place.Thanks to all of you who were able to tune in for the webinar that we held with Qontigo (Axioma), we appreciated the strong showing and thought-provoking questions. If you missed it, you can find the recorded webcast and handouts here: Managing Your... |

Diving Deeper into Runaway Beta: The Changing Characteristics of Key Industries
March 22, 2020
We hope you’ve been weathering our new shared reality of extreme market volatility and social isolation, and that you and your loved ones remain healthy and safe. Today, we’ll revisit last week’s topic of “Runaway Beta“ ahead of a joint webinar that we’ll be hosting alongside our partners at Qontigo (Axioma) this Wednesday (US) and Thursday (EMEA) entitled: Managing Your Portfolio in... |

Inoculating Against Runaway Beta
March 15, 2020
Today we’re going to discuss a key trend in the Beta factor that has heavily impacted investor portfolios during the turbulence of the past few weeks. This is the dominant factor to keep an eye on as we’re seeing significant polarization in company exposure to Beta, resulting in a phenomenon that has hurt investors as the market both falls and rises. We’ll elaborate further on “Runaway... |

Hunting for Value in a Falling Market
March 08, 2020
Today, we’re going to wrap up our series on Value in the real-life context of a massively volatile and beaten down market. We’d like to start by noting that after the turbulence of the past few weeks, our Global Market factor is flagged as “Extremely Oversold” at -2.9 standard deviations below the mean: |

Flash Update: Coronavirus & its Impact on Geopolitical Risk
March 01, 2020
This weekly blog, Factor Spotlight, looks to bring issues to our readership that help to give them an edge – whether it is through fresh insights in the market or new ways to use our Omega Point tool to analyze and manage their portfolios.As the markets have been roiled by losses stemming from concerns around COVID-19’s impact on the global economy, we wanted to provide an update on... |

Geopolitical Risk Portfolio as a Risk Management & Stock Selection Tool
February 09, 2020
In the two weeks since we initiated our multi-part investigation of the Geopolitical Risk Factor (GRF), a distressing escalation in cross-border coronavirus cases is raising alarms and prompting swift action as nations scramble to avert a potential global health crisis. Our thoughts go out to those impacted and to the well being of all global citizens. Meanwhile, this situation... |
