Sep 13
My new company, Delta Research & Advisory, has recently conducted some risk factor analysis of Australian fund managers and it is starting to yield some interesting results. We’ve analysed around 120 managers using Fama/French-like risk factors where thhe value/growth factor is simply MSCI Australian Value index minus MSCI Australia Growth index and the Size factor is MSCI Australia …
Sep 04
Not a great deal of posting the last couple of months due to a combination of conferences, flu, and just plain busy so hopefully I can increase the frequency moving forward. A couple of weeks ago I was at a conference and Modern Portfolio Theory was receiving an absolute caning from those on stage. They …
Jul 19
Oh dear. I just read the above headline in the Money Management daily…click here…and the stated reason is… they deliver reliable income streams and protect capital in volatile markets …I don’t think so or more to the point, with no where near the ability of cash. It looks like the S&P analyst is referring to …
Jun 27
Its been over a week since I posted so I thought I’d write about something that is a little bit different and hopefully may provide a little bit of food for thought. The above chart shows the performance of the MSCI Australia Value index (dominated by low PE stocks) vs MSCI Australia Growth index (dominated …
Feb 20
A look at the average returns of bonds over the last 30 years does not suggest that equity returns have really been worth the risk. Table 1 shows the returns on Australian Bonds (Aust Comm Bank All Series/All Maturities) versus the accumulated return of the Australian sharemarket (S&P/ASX 200 TR) and whilst equities have the better performance …
Feb 16
Platinum Asset Management is undoubtedly the most successful International shares manager in Australia. Their long term performance is way above global benchmarks and thanks to this, their support has been unwavering and they have grown and grown to be one of Australia’s largest fund managers with over $18 billion in FUM. Unfortunately like most companies …
Jan 25
Lonsec have a reasonable investment strategy paper released today (subscription required) suggesting one of the best ways of managing equity market risk is to use variable beta managers. A variable beta manager is a manager who has the ability to significantly change their exposure to the market depending on their view. So if a variable …
Jan 19
I read the following comment this morning in the Money Management daily enews…Market Neutral Funds Underrated: Zenith… There is demonstrable portfolio improvement to be had from allocating to market neutral strategies as part of the equity allocation… That says to me that if you want to improve your equities part of the portfolio then replace …
Jan 14
Page 31 of the Australian Financial Review (AFR) today has an article suggesting “that the traditional buy-hold approach to owning shares is dead”…full text, with subscription can be found here. The article’s stated reason for buy-hold is that “in the long run, markets always go up and will provide investors with a good return on …
Oct 29
A couple of weeks ago I did a post showing Fama French 3 Factor analysis on some of the leading Australian Equities fund managers. The analysis covered returns from June 2003 to September 2011 so it obviously covered a mixture of markets…bull bear and sideways. I just completed the same analysis but this time I …