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Factor facts

One of the most significant investment developments of recent years has been the emergence of factor-based investing as a mainstay of investment management.

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Portfolio Construction Smart Alpha

Sprinting for Lent

As we start a new Smart Alpha “Sprint period” for out S&P500 based Strategy, it is worth reviewing how we have performed so far this year.

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Portfolio Construction Smart Alpha

Inquiring minds…(II)

In Part I of the inquiry, I set out some of the structural problems that the Finance Industry is facing in the wake of the macroeconomic adjustments we experienced over the last 18 months or so  and the impact that they have had on portfolio returns both in 2022 and in the future. In part II I take a closer look at the range of investment approaches – from passive to active currently being operated in the market and at the types of investment models underpinning them.

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General Portfolio Construction Smart Alpha

Inquiring minds… 

Yet again, the financial industry has had to start the year on the back foot. As lists of dramatic fund level underperformances circulate in the media, the explanations, rationalisations and justifications for failure are being delivered via fund reports and year ahead presentations.

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Value doesn’t last forever…

We have recently introduced a new feature on the Apollo Edge platform that allows investors to “Smart Filter” their portfolios or watchlists at the stock level, using our proprietary investment factor groupings of Value, Re-rating, Growth or De-rating.

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Market Dynamics Smart Alpha

From 0.4% to 4.0% – the derating of the SP500

How Apollo signals can help to gauge the market. As a first blogpost, it seemed timely to showcase how some of the Apollo signals and indicators can inform us about the prospects for the US market over the next twelve months.

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 Original thinking, essential insight.

Libra Investment Services has spent the last twelve years operating as a research and advisory business to equity market investors worldwide. At the heart of our approach is the idea that equity markets are not a complicated problem to simplify and solve but instead are an open, complex adaptive system to be analysed and understood as much as we can; regardless of their current state of uncertainty or unpredictability.