10 Years of Trend Following
Kathryn M. Kaminski, Ph.D., Chief Research Strategist, reflects on the last ten years in trend-following strategies.
Kathryn M. Kaminski, Ph.D., Chief Research Strategist, reflects on the last ten years in trend-following strategies.
Kathryn M. Kaminski, Ph.D., Chief Research Strategist, and Ying Yang, Junior Research Scientist, review the recent COVID-19 crisis from the perspective of a trend-following strategy to determine what is similar and what is different from...
Kathryn M. Kaminski, Ph.D., Chief Research Strategist, describes different top-level approaches to volatility and the ways in which managers can approach risk in their strategies.
This paper examines the sources of potential return dispersion across portfolios of risk premia strategies. In addition to classifying these sources of return dispersion, the paper also provides an analysis that helps to make these...
Duncan Wilkinson, CFA, Chief Executive Officer at AlphaSimplex, shares an update on AlphaSimplex’s response to the coronavirus (COVID-19).
Dr. Kaminski revisits the concept of crisis or correction and examines market trends in the wake of the coronavirus.
Duncan Wilkinson, CFA, Chief Executive Officer at AlphaSimplex, shares his insight into AlphaSimplex’s response to the coronavirus (COVID-19).
Kathryn M. Kaminski, Ph.D., Chief Research Strategist, and Ying Yang, Junior Research Scientist, describe how risk exposures are determined in trend-following systems. Additionally, they review 2019 as a case study to demonstrate how different risk...
Do naïve versions of risk premia strategies offer the same level of opportunity from one year to the next? This paper discusses how risk premia strategies change over time and the ways they are being...
Kathryn M. Kaminski, Ph.D. describes the return of momentum in fixed income trades during the first months of 2019. This is in contrast to 2018, which was more difficult period for trend-following strategies. Through August...