There is a shift towards allocating to the factor premiums momentum, value and low volatility. However, since common factor indexes are a suboptimal way to harvest factor premiums, this paper shows the improved results of a more sophisticated approach. Factor strategies developed by Robeco lead to higher returns, while lowering the risks, resulting in higher Sharpe ratios. Read more about this white paper.
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A ‘Sharper’ approach to factor premiums
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If good pain exists, private markets are feeling it
Uncertainty surrounding the impact of the US administration’s policy plans weighed on markets, including the implementation and reversal of tariffs, job cuts across the federal workforce and tightened immigration enforcement.
James ClarkeJune 12, 2025
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Implementing factor strategies in the corporate bond market
While factor strategies have been running for decades in equity markets, their application to corporate bonds has been pioneered in Robeco. There are many similarities between equities and credits and also important differences: in particular the liquidity of corporate bonds. Read more about this new white paper »
Haki CrisdenJune 14, 2016
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Low-volatility evidence dating back to 1873
As new historical databases are opening up, there are great opportunities for out-of-sample tests of market anomalies. Research shows that the volatility effect also existed in the 19th century. Read more » Sponsored Content
Haki CrisdenMay 25, 2016
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Factor Investing Book, 2nd edition
The 2nd edition of Robeco’s Factor Investing Book is out, which brings together ten articles that Robeco researchers have published over recent years. The book consists of three parts: strategic allocation to factor premiums, understanding the factor premiums and how to implement factor investing in an efficient way. Request a hard copy of the book »
Haki CrisdenApril 11, 2016
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Residual Equity Momentum for Corporate Bonds
It is well documented that equity momentum has predictive power for corporate bond returns. We show that an equity momentum strategy applied to corporate bonds exhibits significant time-varying exposures to common equity and bond risk factors. Find out more about the residual momentum strategy. Read the research paper » Sponsored Content
Haki CrisdenApril 6, 2016
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Factor Investing in the Corporate Bond Market
We provide empirical evidence that the Size, Low-Risk, Value and Momentum factors have economically meaningful and statistically significant risk-adjusted returns in the corporate bond market. Since the factors capture different effects, a combined multi-factor portfolio halves the tracking error compared to the individual factors. Read the research paper » Sponsored Content
Haki CrisdenApril 5, 2016
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Smart Credit Investing: the Size Premium
So far, most attention for factor investing has focused on equities, but the concepts and premiums carry over to other asset classes like credits. In this note, we address a specific factor premium in the credit market, namely the size premium. This premium relates to the effect that small caps tend to outperform large caps. […]
Haki CrisdenApril 4, 2016
