On BalanceAs the (still ongoing) fallout from the market turmoil starts to be evaluated, there has been a natural temptation to rationalise and understand recent activity through the traditional lens of cause and effect: “… (A) market response to an (un)anticipated event occurred because Event X threatened to provoke subsequent (negative) Outcome Y and markets reacted […]
Welcome to the Weather Forecast
As we continue to roll out our Smart Alpha strategies, we are publishing a regular newsletter – the Weather forecast that looks at how Smart Alpha strategies can help navigate the current investment climate.
The team here at Libra Investment Services have been analysing global economies and markets for the best part of 40 years and, over that time have seen how the interaction of macro and micro trends, stock level financials and thematic and sector dynamics influence and, ultimately, drive the complex adaptive system that is the financial market. […]
One of the most significant investment developments of recent years has been the emergence of factor-based investing as a mainstay of investment management.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.