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Diversification is Dead – Long Live Diversification
In this article, Dr. Eric Sorensen discusses why fiduciaries should use better benchmarks for skilled active managers, and should those benchmarks be ...
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The Use and Misuse of Tracking Error
Equity portfolio tracking error to a benchmark is a most ubiquitous restriction for active portfolios as prescribed by fiduciaries. The restriction is ...
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“ESG, Fundamentals, and Stock Returns”
For decades, the delivery of wealth maximization has been paramount to investors. More recently, ESG’s adherence to social preferences has caught ...
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“Active vs Passive: Old Wine in New Wine Skins”
Active portfolio management is one of few professions for which worth is defined by a single phrase: risk-adjusted excess return. “Active” in ...
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Small-Cap Allocations: Timing the Entry
This article examines the behavior of the small-capitalization stock return cycle. The authors compare the period 1980-2020 with a study for the ...
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The Devil Is in the Details: The Risks Often Ignored in Low-Volatility Investing
With increasing investor interest in low-volatility equity strategies comes a need for greater scrutiny of different methodologies used to achieve low-volatility exposure. ...
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An Integrated Approach to Quantitative ESG Investing
ESG investing is an area of active interest for both the investment and academic communities. Despite the intense interest, there currently is ...
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Teaching Machines to Understand Chinese Investment Slang
PanAgora’s paper, “Teaching Machines to Understand Chinese Investment Slang,” is published in the Journal of Financial Data Science Winter 2020 issue. © [2020] PMR. ...
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The Golden Age of Quant
ABSTRACT: Throughout the past 45 years, the crux of quantitative portfolio management has evolved through advances in three spheres: (1) domain expertise (market savvy), (2) ...