06/11/2019

The Fab Four: Trend, Carry, Volatility and Value

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In Short

Why we think combining Alternative Risk Premia is necessary in today’s economic environment, and how to go about it.

Risk premia strategies (such as Trend, Carry, Volatility and Value) have faced various headwinds since the 2008 financial crisis. Key drivers of the decline in the levels of premia include historically low interest rates, greater levels of unpredictability in asset volatility and the increased tendency of assets to move together. However, the ability of a well‐constructed strategy to extract a given level of premia has stayed broadly constant, and correlations between the risk premia types remain low. This latter attribute allows investors to combine the risk premia into one allocation to take advantage of the diversification between them, coupled with additional advantages of increased exposure (compared to separate allocations to each individual premium) with reduced trading costs coming from netting benefits.

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About the Author

Suhail Shaikh

Suhail is the Chief Investment Officer of Fulcrum and a member of the Fulcrum Investment Team. Prior to joining the firm in 2005, Suhail spent five years in the Investment Management Division of Goldman Sachs. Suhail has a MSc in Management from the London School of Economics & Political Sciences (2000) and he has been a CFA charterholder since 2003.

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