Dec 12, 2019 | Factor Investment
We began this blog series by talking about price and breadth momentum. In this article, we continue the discussion with risk-adjusted momentum. This takes into account the level of risk involved with a given equity. By taking into account volatility, we are able to... 
Nov 28, 2019 | Factor Investment
When we launched our momentum factors, we broke them into four types: price momentum, risk-adjusted momentum, trend momentum, and idiosyncratic momentum. What are each of these?Price momentum is the rate of acceleration of a security’s price or volume, and a key... 
Oct 8, 2019 | Factor Investment
In the previous two blogs we looked at Value from a high level and from a sector perspective. In this entry, we are looking at Value from a time horizon. Given the pro-cyclical nature of the Value factor, this is an important facet to have. As a refresher, for this... 
Oct 8, 2019 | Factor Investment
In the last blog we looked at the Value factor without any particular perspective. In this entry, we break down the data and see how different Value factors perform across different sectors. To remind you, for this demonstration portfolio we are comparing metrics... 
Oct 8, 2019 | Factor Investment
Factor investing is more relevant today than ever before. At Kavout, we approach using Factors differently: We do the leg work. Kavout crunches the financial data, calculates and updates each value factor for thousands of stocks on a daily basis. This saves you time... 
Oct 8, 2019 | Factor Investment
In the previous two blogs we looked at Quality from a high level and from a sector perspective. In this entry, we are looking at Quality from a time horizon. As a refresher, for this demonstration we constructed a portfolio based on three key sub-factors: profit,... 
