Investment portfolios that include private assets can gain a number of potential advantages, including diversification, enhanced returns and less risk. Moreover, there is evidence of a growing number of private asset investment opportunities that can have a positive sustainable impact. However,...

The new requirements under the European Union's PRIIP (Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products) regulation, which aims to provide more transparency for retail investors, just came into effect in January 2023. In this paper, we examine the key aspects of the regulation,...

We propose a model based on statistical learning techniques to predict unreported corporate greenhouse gas emissions, which generates considerably better results than existing approaches. The model uses one linear and one non-linear learners only, which reduces its complexity to the minimum...

Value stocks endured a period of severe underperformance until recently. We show that the value spreads between valuations of value stocks and their most expensive peers expanded in all regions and sectors during this period of underperformance, reaching the same extreme high levels last seen at...

In this paper we introduce the notion of themes as an additional investment dimension beyond asset classes, regions, sectors and styles, and we propose a framework to allocate to thematic investments at a strategic asset allocation level. The goal of thematic investments is to provide the means...

The digital transformation is creating a need for mass customization of tactical asset allocation. Asset managers publish tactical asset allocation qualitative views regularly. However, the construction of robust portfolios from such views at large scale is often over-simplified. We propose a...

We investigate the possible sources of the recent underperformance of multi-factor equity strategies reported by many equity quant managers. We considered the value, quality, low risk and momentum factor styles in mid to large-capitalisation World, USA and European stock universes. When looking...

Selecting managers on the basis of past performance is an intuitive strategy that seems trusted by investors. Indeed, many studies report a positive correlation between past fund returns and investor cash flows. Evidence also suggests that at least at shorter-term horizons investing with the top...

Ten years after showing that the low volatility anomaly in the performance of stocks is a phenomenon that should be considered in each sector as opposed to on an absolute basis ignoring sectors, we present evidence that this observation has held up well, and that if anything, has become even...