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Hedging ESG MSCI Barra 2021 Environmental

The New Frontier: Investments in Clean Infrastructure

April 04, 2021

This past week on March 31, the Biden Administration announced the American Jobs Plan, which proposes a $2 trillion plan to invest in US infrastructure. The plan highlights several areas of public investment designed to address the climate and racial inequities that have arisen in part due to an aging national infrastructure and lack of focus on research & development. If passed, the proposed...

Alyx Flournoy, CFA

Hedging 2021 Momentum Rotation

Turning Analysis into Action: Hedge Baskets for Momentum Flow

March 28, 2021

In our prior two Factor Spotlights, Who’s Going With the (Momentum) Flow? and Is Momentum Flow Riding the Interest Rate Rollercoaster?, we have explored and analyzed the themes of momentum rotation and interest rates. Based on the many inquiries and portfolio evaluation requests we’ve received since we first published on these topics, we’re encouraged that so many in the investment community...

Kevin Wahlberg

Hedging 2020 Smart Trades

Capturing a Kodak Moment: How to Maximize the Alpha in Your Ideas

August 09, 2020

Kris Woods

ETFs Hedging Volatility 2019 Technology

Building a Smarter Tech Hedge

November 03, 2019

Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve discussed the benefits of using a smarter hedge basket vs. the standard and ubiquitous ETF hedges that most portfolio managers use to some extent. Most recently, we built a higher Volatility basket out of the SPY constituents, through which a manager could have made an incremental +5.68% return per year over the traditional SPY hedge.

Omer Cedar

Hedging Volatility 2019 SPY

Building a Superior SPY Hedge

October 27, 2019

Last week, we discussed the significant drawbacks of using the S&P 500 SPDR (SPY) as a market exposure hedge. We established that 1) the SPY hedge is wildly common among the institutional investment community (40% of the SPY’s AUM is short interest), and 2) it carries an inherent long bet on Volatility - a negative premia factor that’s down 32% over the past five years.

Omer Cedar

Hedging Volatility 2019 SPY

The Inherent Volatility of a SPY Hedge

October 20, 2019

This week we’ll be kicking off a series on “smart hedging,” by which we aim to find a more efficient and elegant solution to hedging market exposure in your portfolio. We’ll also provide our weekly market and factor update.

Omer Cedar

ETFs 2018 Market Selloff Hedging

How to get Defensive With Your Portfolio

October 24, 2018

Last week, we discussed how much the market's recent drawdown was driven by a factor rotation away from the cyclical factors (Volatility, Market Sensitivity, & Momentum) and into the more defensive factors of Size, Value, & Profitability. Though we've seen a market bounceback in the past week, movements continue to be heavily correlated with the factor rotation, as shown below.

Omer Cedar