Diversification. It looks great on paper, but for the past ten years, being globally and “Factor” diversified has been anything but great. Understandably, many diversified investors are looking at their returns and wondering why they [...]
In the short video below, I show how to compute Active Share. The accompanying excel file with the formulas can be found here. I start by computing the active share for two hypothetical funds, and [...]
Welcome to a year-end installment of Reproducible Finance with R, a series posts that will be a little bit different from the norm on Alpha Architect (see here for my last post). We will search [...]
Welcome to the first installment of Reproducible Finance by way of Alpha Architect. For the uninitiated, this series is a bit different than the other stuff on AA - we'll focus on writing clean, reproducible [...]
We've talked extensively about the concepts of active share and active fee, which aren't flawless metrics, but they have elevated the discussion around identifying and understand the closet indexing phenomenon. To be clear, closet indexing [...]
Factor analysis has taken the professional consultant world by storm and we are slowly seeing this analysis being used more and more by sophisticated retail investors and investment advisors. And that's great--factor analysis is a great tool. [...]
Readers: We've updated the technology behind our free tools for financial professionals. Unfortunately, this took a long time, but now that we've developed the framework, we'll be able to launch new and better tools in the [...]
Our DO-IT-YOURSELF Investing Tool is Live! You can build your own stock selection and asset allocation models using our DIY Investing tools. How to Access the Tool? Step 1: Click "Our tools" tab from our main website [...]
Our Asset Allocation Backtesting Tool is Live! You can build and backest your own asset allocation portfolio using our "Allocation Architect" tool. How to Access the Tool? Step 1: Click "Our tools" tab from our [...]