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The Triumph of Mediocrity: A Case Study of Naïve Beta
Smart beta, like many names for investment products, is surely a misnomer. There are two different kinds of smart betas: one based ...
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Risk Parity Equity Strategy with Flexible Risk Targets
We shall address several issues related to leverage in this article, including the appropriate level of leverage and how to achieve this ...
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Are Risk Parity Managers at Risk Parity?
The flood of new marketplace entrants has raised a question: Do these new offerings truly achieve Risk Parity as we know it? ...
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Pension Liabilities and Risk Parity
In this article, Dr. Edward Qian, PanAgora’s Chief Investment Officer and Head of Multi Asset Research, highlights the different challenges facing ...
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Factor Timing Model
Since the Great Recession of 2007 and the subsequent financial crisis of 2008, global financial markets have entered into unchartered territory characterized by extreme ...
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Diversification Return and Leveraged Portfolios
Portfolio rebalancing is essential for harvesting diversification return. A portfolio composed of a single security (the extreme case of non-diversification) requires no ...
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Risk Parity and Diversification
It is often said that diversification is the only assurance to successful long-term investing, but the approach to diversification that one employs ...
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Rewarding Fundamentals
Our interest is measurement of (and insight into) the value of accurate earning forecasting. Over time, what are the typical payoffs for ...
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Active Equity Management for the Future
This article by Eric Sorensen, Ph.D., PanAgora’s President and Chief Executive Officer, considers the future of active equity strategies and ...