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Backtesting Protocol in the Era of Machine Learning

 

Machine learning provides the investment industry with a new set of tools. However, investors need to be cautious. Machine learning is being hyped and sometimes misapplied.

Webinar Replay

Ignored Risks of Factor Investing

 

Factors have risks, and ignoring these risks can leave investors underprepared for the investment journey. By investing in multiple factors, diversification can mitigate the risks of individual factors, reducing a portfolio’s overall risk—but far from all of it.

Feifei Li at the Morningstar Investment Conference

 

Feifei Li discusses RAFI Multi-Factor, a strategy that offers diversified exposures to robust equity factors.
June 12, 2018

Vitali Kalesnik on Bloomberg TV

 

Vitali Kalesnik discusses factor investing and how the ETF landscape has changed the way we talk about markets, value, and growth.
October 18, 2018

Webinar Replay

What Matters in Multi-Factor Investing?

In the first of a five-part webinar series, Vitali Kalesnik and Joe Steidl present the business case and academic framework underlying multi-factor investing, as well as the evidence supporting the most popular factors in factor investing.

 

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The Biggest Failure in Investment Management: How Smart Beta Can Make It Better or Worse

The biggest failure in investment management—the gap between the returns realized by the investor and the returns earned by the strategy or fund the investor owns—typically remains in the shadows with the glare of the spotlights focused on alpha.

Rob Arnott on Bloomberg TV Asia

 

“Is China a bargain now?” Rob explains why China is “getting there,” and expands his commentary to include US and emerging-market stocks, and a potential US recession.
October 18, 2018

Chris Brightman on
CNBC’s Squawk Box

 

Listen to Chris explain why he is worried about slowing US economic momentum as a result of fading fiscal stimulus. Chris believes emerging market equities remain a good bargain for investors.
October 11, 2018

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Ignored Risks of
Factor Investing

 

Long-only factor investing, often called smart beta, can be a valuable way for investors to achieve their long-term return targets. To achieve the best outcomes, investors should have realistic expectations about the risks factors pose and be prepared to weather potentially prolonged periods of material underperformance.

Buy High and Sell Low with Index Funds!
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Buy High and Sell Low with Index Funds

Traditional index funds match market performance and have negligible trading costs with low tracking error—or do they? Not actually—they routinely buy after high price appreciation and sell after high price depreciation.

Rob Arnott on Bloomberg TV

July 16, 2018

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Alternative Risk Premia: Valuable Benefits for Traditional Portfolios

An alternative risk premia strategy that relies on robust factors within a liquid, transparent, and disciplined framework has the potential to improve the long-term return prospects of traditional portfolios and to reduce their downside risk.

Bloomberg TV, August 17, 2018

Rob Arnott on Short-Termism
in the Stock Market

Bloomberg TV, August 17, 2018

Rob Arnott on Turkey
and Emerging Markets
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Where Is the
Global Economy Going?

Evidence shows that the yield-curve slope and equity returns provide signals of similar direction in the economy, allowing investors to nowcast with relative confidence.

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Are Our TDFs Massively
Underweight Inflation-Fighting Assets?

Allocations to inflation-fighting assets in target-date funds are simply too low in relation to the benefit these asset classes offer investors who are planning for retirement.
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Food for Thought:
Integrating vs. Mixing

Although a naïve comparison appears to favor the integrating approach to multi-factor strategy construction, many investors may find mixing is a more sensible choice.
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Pundits Predicting Panic
in Emerging Markets

A rational analysis of the emerging markets affirms our belief that now is the time to buy, not sell. The panic being peddled by pundits today is simply not justified.
Yes. It's a Bubble. So What?

The relentless rise in the US stock market since its low in 2009 has been dramatic. US stock market valuations now exceed all historical valuation levels, except for those hit at the peak of the dot-com craze. This raises an obvious question for investors: Today, in early 2018, and has been the case over the last year, is the US stock market in another bubble? Yes. The more important question then becomes: How should investors react?
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Unlocking the Performance
Potential in ESG Investing

By combining a tilt toward companies that display financial discipline and that embrace corporate diversity with the return engine of a fundamentally weighted portfolio, we believe investors in environmental, social, and governance (ESG)–related strategies have the opportunity to earn superior long-term risk-adjusted returns.
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CAPE Fear: Why Cape
Naysayers Are Wrong

Beware the consequences of assuming that elevated CAPE ratios are here to stay, but if they are the “new normal,” low future returns are likely to be the “new normal” as well.
Rob Arnott on Bloomberg TV

January 11, 2018

 

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