Although factor investing is becoming more popular, there are still plenty of questions surrounding the concept and its implementation. In Europe, the US and Asia, it is a widely debated strategy within the professional investment community. Investors are attracted by the prospect of greater diversification, higher returns and lower risk. What should investors know in order to maximize their factor investing performance? Read the full article or download the pdf.
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Five things about maximizing factor investing performance
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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.
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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
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The low-risk anomaly in credits
In this Research Note we show that low-risk credits had superior risk-adjusted excess returns over the past 20 years. By selecting low-risk bonds from low-risk issuers, investors would have earned credit-like returns at substantially lower risk. Read more about the low-risk anomaly in credit markets using various dimensions of risk. Read the research paper » […]
Haki CrisdenMarch 31, 2016
