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April 3, 2024 • Posted in Quantitative & Optimization

Quantitative Investment Strategies and Hedge Funds: A Comparative Analysis

QIS provide investors with advantages such as lower fees, a transparent investment framework, and comparable market exposure to various hedge fund products. With multiple structural benefits, the QIS market has experienced consistent growth over the past years, with the current market estimated at over $700 billion in AUM.
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July 19, 2023 • Posted in Multi-Asset & Optimization

Characterizing Intraday Momentum Strategies

Systematic intraday momentum strategies in the US equity market aim to benefit from intraday long or short trending behavior, both to mitigate downward risk and be exposed to asymmetric and convex return profiles, particularly during crisis periods.
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December 8, 2022 • Posted in Quantitative & Optimization

Creating Factor Clusters in the US Liquid Alternatives Universe

We identified 9 clusters within 269 US Liquid Alternatives using Premialab Pure Factors and the performance and factor characteristics of the funds.
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October 6, 2022 • Posted in Multi-Asset & Optimization

Use Case: Alpha Generation and Assessing Active Risk Decomposition from a Manager

By construction, this alpha is independent from the broad market factors and is referred to as “true alpha” in some literature. Alpha can be generated from the specific security selection or market timing of factors.
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March 2, 2022 • Posted in Quantitative & Optimization

2021 Premialab Markets Review

This paper provides a review of the market, analyzing performance in 2021 across diversified multi-asset alternative risk premia and offering an overview of the following global factors: equity market neutral, multi-asset trend, and multi-asset volatility.
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January 19, 2022 • Posted in Quantitative & Optimization

White Paper: Creating Factor Clusters in the Alternative UCITS Universe

Using a novel quantitative process utilizing Premialab Pure Factor®, we identify seven “clusters” with a universe of 323 Alternative UCITS based on their performance and factor characteristics.
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April 20, 2021 • Posted in Quantitative & Optimization

Exploring US Growth Funds Performance as US Interest Rates Rapidly Rise

This paper explores how well the 196 US Growth Funds representing $1.8 trillion AUM across 86 fund houses, and US Factors, proxied by Premialab’s Pure Factors, our proprietary benchmarks on risk premia and factor performances, have navigated through this latest period of a rapid rise in US interest rates.
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February 16, 2021 • Posted in Quantitative & Optimization

Growing stronger: Looking Beneath Growth's Outperformance

This paper decomposes 196 US Growth Funds representing $1.8 trillion AUM across 86 fund houses through Premialab Pure Factors®, our proprietary benchmarks on risk premia and factor performances. The analysis provides unique insights into Growth funds' inner factor dynamics and returns drivers.
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