What is the appropriate benchmark for a TAA portfolio? This is a subtle but I think often overlooked aspect when measuring the performance of a TAA strategy or portfolio. The classic choice, just like in buy and hold, is the 60/40 US stock, US bond portfolio. The are other choices Read more…
It’s been a while since I’ve write about TAA Strategy Performance so I thought it was high time for an update. I’ll compare mainly long term performance but also the consistency of that performance of about 90 TAA strategies. Also, I’ve made some some small but important changes to my Read more…
Following up on my last post re-introducing quantitative investing in individual stocks, I wanted to address probably the most important part of investing in individual stocks with quantitative methods, and that is how to choose which strategies to invest in? I’ll start out with a very obvious method but in Read more…
It’s been almost 11 years now since I posted my introduction to quantitative investing. It’s kind of hard to believe as I’m typing these words. A lot has happened since that summer day in 2013. And a lot has stayed the same. Learning about, implementing, and allocating to this type Read more…
After my last post on using trend following in Crypto markets I thought I’d continue on that thread and look at applying trend following on a newish concept (similar concepts have existed at the institutional level for a long time) in creating diversified portfolios, called return stacking. First, what is Read more…
It has been a while since I’ve updated the blog. These days I spend most of my time writing for subscribers of my newsletter but I’d like to get back to writing publicly again. So, to launch myself back into public blogging I thought I would write about Crypto and Read more…
Next up on the performance review for 2021 are the Volatility Curve Models that are part of the Quant Pulse service. For a quick background on these models and hoe they work, start with this post where I first introduced the concepts behind the volatility curve model. Also, here are Read more…
Happy New Year to everyone! A quick post to present the performance results of the TAA strategies that are part of the Economic Pulse and Quant Pulse Newsletters. I’ll also discuss how the performance compares to other TAA strategies. Overall, it was a good year for my strategies and I’m quite pleased Read more…
One of the challenges of using a quantitative approach to investing in individual stocks is choosing the actual strategies to use among of sea of seemingly ever expanding strategies. In my quant work I’ve narrowed down the universe of strategies to 11 but that is still an overwhelming number of Read more…
Time for my annual post updating statistics for the various portfolios that I track. This is the last post rounding up 2020 statistics. All portfolio stats were gathered using AllocateSmartly, P123, and various other sites like MSCI. Obviously, there are many more portfolio options out there. This is just a sampling Read more…
This post updates the quant strategies performance through year end 2020. The 2019 version of the post is here. If you’re new to all this quant stuff, and like what you see, you can start on my Portfolios page and read through the posts in the quant section where I have Read more…