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Assessing which Risk Parity Funds Blew up

Back in March I posted about "Which Risk Parity Pension Will Blow Up First:" https://alphaarchitect.com/2013/03/which-risk-parity-based-pension-will-blow-up-first/ Now we can see where the pieces ended up: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323689204578572050047323638.html [...]

Taxes, Fees, and Liquidity–What Really Matters!

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/retirement-savers-its-not-too-late-for-stocks-2013-06-22 The real meat and potatoes: To be sure, investors are facing a world of low returns and higher than average volatility. And the traditional [...]

No Real Fear in this Market–Yet…

Pretty ugly across the Core 6 asset classes: Domestic Equity Emerging Equity Developed Equity REITs Bonds Commodities No real fear out there. VIX up a [...]

Woodstock for Finance Geeks

I'll be in Lake Tahoe from June 17-19th soaking in the latest and greatest in finance research. If you are in the area, let me [...]

Picking Managers Based on the FACTS

Used car salesmen are everywhere -- including the asset management business. My experience working with family offices in the dual role of consultant and investment [...]

SAC Capital and Justice

So you break the law, admit it, but because you're a billionaire you don't get in trouble this time (fluke event, of course), but promise [...]

Are Market Valuations too High?

There is a lot of chatter regarding market valuations. Many commentators are very confident that market is overpriced. Overconfidence can be dangerous. In the words [...]

NASDAQ 3000–still a long way from 5000!

Amazing to think that in 2000 the Nasdaq was over 5,000. Here is an old article from the Street.com: http://www.thestreet.com/story/897915/1.html But was this a bubble? [...]

Economic Comeback?

H1B Visa applications went to a lottery this year... Housing is hot and Ford pickups are selling like hotcakes... US Energy IS the story for [...]

Tax Party–and EVERYONE is invited!

http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/tax-policy/Documents/General-Explanations-FY2014.pdf What exactly is "fair share?" Don't worry, private equity already has workarounds...public equity folks are toast. I guess we'll all be HFT traders now [...]

Are Stocks Expensive? Yes, but…

Are stocks expensive? On an absolute basis, yes. As Greenbackd.com and Mebanefaber.com have recently pointed out, the Shiller P/E, or cyclically-adjusted P/E (CAPE), is at a historical [...]

Are you a Company Man?

Contrarian investing is the art of profiting in the markets by diverging from the investment approach favored by the crowd.  While we may all aspire [...]

Momentum-Based Allocation

Absolute Momentum: A Simple Rule-Based Strategy and Universal Trend-Following Overlay Gary Antonacci A version of the paper can be found here. Want a summary of academic [...]

Battle of the Quants

I'll be kicking, screaming, and fighting for the Quants. Wish me luck... http://battleofthequants.net/wesley-gray/ Come join the party on April 23 and 24! http://battleofthequants.net/agenda/

Quandl: Democratizing Data

There are two components to DIY quantitative investing.  The first is know-how in building models and systems.  The second is data to fuel the analysis, model or [...]

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