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Smart Beta 2.0 — rise of the machines
This edition of Fathom the Strategy combines machine-learning techniques and our proprietary Financial Vulnerability Index (FVI) to create equity portfolios with superior risk-adjusted returns compared to traditional benchmarks and other simplistic approaches. We exploit the idea that diversification should be the only free lunch available in finance as long as risks are correctly identified and weighted up. We find that the fundamental, macroeconomic characteristics of different markets matter substantially more than just prices in identifying risks and building well diversified...
US economic sentiment wobbles amid shutdown uncertainty
Central banks blink as outlook dims
US economic sentiment failed to rebound in February following shutdown
Fathom’s SFI highlights risks in Turkey and Argentina
Euro break-up fears receding as currency’s popularity rises
Introducing Fathom’s 2019 Q1 forecast: Stepping back from the edge?
Trade war on pause, but new era of tension here to stay
UK economic optimism close to six-year low
Euro area sentiment: mind the gap
Fathom’s Top 10 for 2018 Q4
Fathom’s CMI hovers around 6%
China using capital flows to leapfrog up the global value chain
Credit market success breeds complacency
Fed pause raises the prospect of ‘one last party’ in global asset markets
Fathom’s 2018 scorecard
Fathom global outlook: feel the market
Do they know it’s value time at all?
Time to lay off the monetary meds
Time to lay off the monetary meds
When markets are wrong – lessons from Fathom’s SFI
Introducing Fathom’s 2018 Q4 forecast: Time to party like it’s 1989?
Made in China, exposed by RiCArdo
A flick about FLiq
Policy prescriptions for the Irish economy
Asset allocation: taking stock and dodging smoking barrels
Euro area economy likely to have grown by 0.4%
A global recession is coming: here’s why
China’s hokey-cokey approach to reform
Euro area: set to catch a cold?
EMs – fine now, cry later
Timeout for US small caps?
Time to batten down the hatches?
Rising above the labyrinth of financial noise with the FLI
Introducing our Q3 forecast: Fathom’s 2020 vision