Note: an enhanced version of this strategy, BOND-COMP, is now part of the Economic Pulse Newsletter Most tactical asset allocation strategies focus on equites. That’s completely understandable. They are the highest return asset class over the long run and that is where most of the TAA research has been done. Read more…
Note: one of my posts from last year, When Models Fail, was chosen for Faber’s Best Investment Writing Volume 3. Check it out if you get a chance. Time to take a quick look back at 2019 YTD performance. In this post I present a quick overview of 1H 2019 Read more…
Wow! I just realized this week that it has been four and half years since I first wrote about trend following for bonds. Time for an update I think. The inspiration and reminder that it had been a long time since I had written about TAA for Bonds was this Read more…
In this post I describe a simple low volatility quant strategy that outperforms the market and another strategy that combines low volatility with value and momentum to provide further outperformance. Stocks that exhibit low volatility outperform more volatile stocks, contradicting the efficient market theory and the capital asset pricing model Read more…
All of the QuantPulse portfolios and books have been updates for members as of Sunday, February 17, 2019. Also, all the performance figures have been updated. To learn more about the QuantPulse service or subscribe, see this introduction. For 2019 I’ve added options to allow subscriptions to individual strategies. This is a Read more…
In today’s post I want to look at long term TAA model performance in a different way. I think intuitively most investors realize that any strategy they pick will have periods of outperformance and underperformance. But decision making under real circumstances exposes us to all kinds of biases which often Read more…
Time for my annual post updating statistics for the various portfolios that I track. All portfolio stats were gathered using AllocateSmartly, P123, Morningstar and the wonder that is Excel. Obviously, there are many more portfolio options out there. This is just a sampling of three main portfolio varieties; buy and hold, TAA Read more…
All of the QuantPulse portfolios and books have been updates for members as of yesterday, January 20, 2019. Also, all the performance figures have been updated. To learn more about the QuantPulse service or subscribe, see this introduction. For 2019 I’ve added options to allow subscriptions to individual strategies. This is a Read more…
This post updates the quant strategies performance through year end 2018. For this year I decided to combine the 2018 year end performance and the overall historical returns update for the strategies all in the same post. The 2017 versions of the posts are here and here. If you’re new to Read more…
All of the QuantPulse portfolios and books have been updates as of today, December 23, 2018. Also, all the performance figures have been updated. The QuantPulse homepage remains open to the public. To read about the service see this introduction. Now, on to the update. Performance for the 4-week period ending Dec 21, 2018, Read more…
All of the QuantPulse portfolios and books have been updates as of yesterday, November 25, 2018. Also, all the performance figures have been updated. The QuantPulse homepage remains open to the public. To read about the service see this introduction. Now, on to the update. Performance for the 4-week period ending Nov 23, 2018, Read more…