Strategy Alternative risk premia weathering Brexit storm well
Pierre-Yves Moix, co-manager of the Alternative Risk Premia strategy at GAM, comments on how the growing alternative risk premia industry has delivered strong performance in the uncertain Brexit environment – proving once again its strong diversification and market neutral (...)
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Opinion Overview of Quantitative Finance in France
A short review of quantitative finance in France under the lens of the Next Finance website: Profile of quants, origins and outlook of the industry.
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Strategy Does a liquidity factor premium exist in the stock market?
Academic studies present ample evidence in support of the existence of four factor premiums in stock markets: Low Risk, Value, Momentum, and Quality. Factor investing puts these concepts into practice by enabling investors to allocate their capital explicitly to these (...)
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Pedagogy Performance fee impact
These fees are far from being insignificant for investor returns. According to Duncan Wilkinson, CEO of Alpha Simplex, more and more hedge fund managers, especially in the United States, have decided to offer products without any performance fees; a trend that should (...)
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Strategy An example of Quantitative Strategy: The Low Volatility approach
Low volatility indices and, more broadly, products based on quantitative strategies aiming to select only low-volatility stocks, have met with growing success with the financial community and investors. However, most of these indices have major drawbacks that cannot always (...)
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Stories Capital Fund Management: Simply the best?
Discus Fund, one of CFM flagship funds, posted 23 percent year-to-date positive returns as of october end, the best performance amongst all the global systematic funds. This is the confirmation the know-how of the French manager which has shown exceptional trackrecords for (...)
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Opinion Brexit illustrates the diversification benefits of trend-following strategies
During the Brexit, the average CTA did very well: the SG Trend Index, a performance indicator for trend-following strategies, jumped 2.9% on 24 June. Trend-following strategies outperformed both equities, with the MSCI World Index dropping 4.9%, and hedge funds in general, (...)
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Note Investors increasingly embrace quantitative strategies
Over two thirds of respondents of the Deutsche Bank annual Alternative Investment Survey invest in systematic strategies, including one in every two who plan to add to one or more quantitative sub-strategies in 2016. The largest investment consultants and pension funds are (...)
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Strategy Managed futures strategies
This type of strategy is based on a simple idea: try to take advantage of an exposure on futures contracts («Futures») with the underlying being a financial instruments or a commodity ...
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Opinion Quantitative Management: French Managers make resistance
Despite respectable performances, French quantitative managers are struggling to significantly increase their assets. Is it the fault of too cold local institutional?
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Stories Axa Rosenberg: a $217 million bug.
The American quantitative management firm is struggling to get over a scandal that originated from an IT error and which lead 600 of its clients to lose money.
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News Barclay CTA Index Down 0.39% in November; Profits in Bonds and Yen Not Enough to Overcome Losses in Other Sectors
Managed futures lost 0.39% in November according to the Barclay CTA Index compiled by BarclayHedge. The Index has lost 1.45% year to date, compared to a gain of 0.73% in the S&P GSCI Index.
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News A Taste of Summer for Hedge Funds
The winning streak for hedge funds continued last week with all strategies, besides CTAs, benefitting from the stabilization of market conditions. The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was up 0.5%, bringing the month to date performance to a solid (...)
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Strategy “Guru” strategy: back to basics with a quantitative equity strategy
As its name so aptly suggests, a “Guru” strategy combines the expertise we have gleaned from history’s greatest fund managers with the advantages of quantitative investment management.
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Note Hedge funds: The CTAs drift
Since mid-2011, CTAs cumulative loss is between -10.6% (HFRI macro systematic index) and -16.8% (Credit Suisse Managed Futures Index). For the first quarter of this year, CTAs show a drawdown of about 3% which is expected to increase in April (-0.66% for HFRX CTA index) (...)
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