With the election now only two days away and most choices likely set, I’m sure that many of you are ready for at least a brief respite from the crescendo of related coverage. In that vein, we’re taking a break from our election series this week, but for those still inclined you may want to check out our previous two posts: “Mitigating Election-Driven Volatility in Your Portfolio” and ... |

Momentum Inflecting
September 21, 2018For the past few weeks, we've been closely following Medium-Term Momentum as it sharply climbed into Overbought territory. While we've talked about this factor a lot recently, it's been a very active signal in both our US and Global models, and we're now observing that Momentum is currently at an inflection point.
As a reminder, we define Medium-Term Momentum as cumulative return over the...

Factor Spotlight: Momentum Update
September 07, 2018I hope you've been having a great summer. While factor movement has been relatively quiet this season, we're now seeing the emergence of signal for Medium-Term Momentum factor in both the US and Global models. Usually, when we see this type of movement in both models, it makes for a much stronger signal.
The last time we discussed Momentum on July 12th, we had flagged it as "Oversold" as it...

Dividend Yield & MTM Update
July 26, 2018Here are a couple of quick updates on some factors that we've discussed in recent weeks.Dividend Yield / Growth Update Last week, we highlighted the Dividend Yield factor in our US model.
- At the time, our Factor Profile tool had isolated it as being “Extremely Oversold” at -2.24 standard deviations below the historical mean on a normalized basis.
- Today, this factor sits at -2.31 SD below the...
