DIY Trend-Following Allocations: September 2023
Full exposure to domestic equities. Full exposure to international equities. No exposure to REITs. Partial exposure to commodities. No exposure to intermediate-term bonds.
Global Factor Performance: August 2023
The following factor performance modules have been updated on our Index website.
DIY Trend-Following Allocations: August 2023
Full exposure to domestic equities. Full exposure to international equities. Partial exposure to REITs. Partial exposure to commodities. No exposure to intermediate-term bonds.
Global Factor Performance: July 2023
Standardized Performance Factor Performance Factor Exposures Factor Premiums Factor Attribution Factor Data Downloads
DIY Trend-Following Allocations: July 2023
Full exposure to domestic equities. Full exposure to international equities. No exposure to REITs. No exposure to commodities. No exposure to intermediate-term bonds.
Improving Performance by Avoiding Negatives of Index Replication
There are several significant, well-documented benefits of index funds. In addition to outperforming a large majority of actively managed funds, they tend to have low fees, low turnover (resulting in low trading costs and high tax efficiency), broad diversification, high liquidity, and near-zero tracking error (generally assumed to mean that they incur negligible trading costs).
Global Factor Performance: June 2023
Standardized Performance Factor Performance Factor Exposures Factor Premiums Factor Attribution Factor Data Download
DIY Trend-Following Allocations: June 2023
Partial exposure to domestic equities. Full exposure to international equities. No exposure to REITs. No exposure to commodities. Partial exposure to intermediate-term bonds.
2023 Democratize Quant Conference Recap and Materials
We recently hosted our 6th Annual Democratize Quant Conference. This post is a recap of what we heard and some resources we can make available to the public.
Global Factor Performance: May 2023
Standardized Performance Factor Performance Factor Exposures Factor Premiums Factor Attribution Factor Data Downloads
DIY Trend-Following Allocations: May 2023
Partial exposure to domestic equities. Full exposure to international equities. No exposure to REITs. No exposure to commodities. Partial exposure to intermediate-term bonds.
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Global Factor Performance: April 2023
Standardized Performance Factor Performance Factor Exposures Factor Premiums Factor Attribution Factor Data Downloads
DIY Trend-Following Allocations: April 2023
Partial exposure to domestic equities. Partial exposure to international equities. No exposure to REITs. No exposure to commodities. Partial exposure to intermediate-term bonds.
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Global Factor Performance: March 2023
Standardized Performance Factor Performance Factor Exposures Factor Premiums Factor Attribution Factor Data Downloads
DIY Trend-Following Allocations: March 2023
No exposure to domestic equities. Partial exposure to international equities. No exposure to REITs. No exposure to commodities. No exposure to intermediate-term bonds.
Global Factor Performance: February 2023
Standardized Performance Factor Performance Factor Exposures Factor Premiums Factor Attribution Factor Data Downloads
DIY Trend-Following Allocations: February 2023
Partial exposure to domestic equities. Partial exposure to international equities. No exposure to REITs. Partial exposure to commodities. No exposure to intermediate-term bonds.
Global Factor Performance: January 2023
Standardized Performance Factor Performance Factor Exposures Factor Premiums Factor Attribution Factor Data Downloads