This post updates the quant strategies performance through year end 2019. The 2018 version of the post is here. If you’re new to all this quant stuff, and like what you see, you can start on my Portfolios page and read through the posts in the quant section. Then you can dive into more detail by reading the posts in…
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Introducing the QuantPulse Service – a better way to quant
An optimized, risk-managed approach to quant investing If you’re reading this, you’re interested in learning and more about and using quantitative stock portfolios in your investment arsenal. And hopefully you’re familiar with the basics of this type of quant investing. The basic principle is to take a quantitative and portfolio approach to picking stocks. For an introduction to what this…
Introducing the QuantPulse Service
An optimized, risk-managed approach to quant investing If you’re reading this, you’re interested in learning and more about and using quantitative stock portfolios in your investment arsenal. And hopefully you’re familiar with the basics of this type of quant investing. The basic principle is to take a quantitative and portfolio approach to picking stocks. For an introduction to what this…
What’s new for 2017
A quick post on some changes to the blog. Overall, the blog will be still mainly be focused on quantitative investing. I will also continue to write about investing in retirement which has it’s own challenges. Now for the changes. The biggest change to the blog is that you’ll start to see more posts about the economy and economic indicators. This…
Portfolios
This page is a list of the various portfolios I frequently talk about on the blog, along with links to the portfolio source material and/or my posts describing the portfolios. I also have three sub pages. One has the daily status of the GTAA13, AGG3, and AGG3 portfolios, and one has the status of two of Antonacci’s portfolios GEM and…
When quant portfolios underperform
Any investment strategy that is not ‘the market’ will experience periods of under performance. Sometimes quite extended like value investing in the late 90s. How an investor handles those periods of underperformance goes a long way to determining whether they have any chance of outperforming the averages over time. In today’s post I want to highlight the recent under performance…
Putting together quant portfolios
One of the more overlooked areas of quantitative investing is how to integrate quant strategies into a diversified portfolio. Let’s look at a few of the issues involved and some possible solutions. I’ve discussed the big allocation decision already, i.e. how much to put into quant strategies vs bonds already. I think this decision should be primarily driven by how much…
Recipe for a happy retirement (2014 edition)
Hard to believe it has been 2 years since I last updated my recipe for a happy retirement. And 2 years before that I had the original post. Every 2 years seems like a nice interval to revisit my thoughts in this area. We are now getting close to completing 5 years on the road living in our RV and…
IVY Timing Model Extensions – more asset classes
In my last post I updated the official numbers for the IVY timing model. The original version of the model consists of a diversified portfolio of 5 asset classes. In the research paper Mebane Faber also looks at several extension to the 5 asset class timing model that improve returns over the basic model. Here I discuss the first extension,…
Beating the market to maximize retirement income – part II
A while back I wrote about some historical analysis I had done that showed several ways that an investor could achieve market beating returns and thus maximize retirement income. It has been known for a long time that several ‘factors’ or characteristics of stocks generate market beating returns. The two classic factors are value and size. Value stocks outperform the…
Momentum in individual stock quant strategies
One of the challenges of using a quantitative approach to investing in individual stocks is choosing the actual strategies to use among of sea of seemingly ever expanding strategies. In my quant work I’ve narrowed down the universe of strategies to 11 but that is still an overwhelming number of strategies to select from. In practice, you usually have to…