Commodities vs Commodity ETFs

Commodities vs Commodity ETFs Good or bad proxies? March 2022. Reading Time: 10 Minutes. Author: Nicolas Rabener. SUMMARYThe average correlation between oil and oil ETFs was only 0.8Gold ETFs provide better exposure to gold than oil ETFs to oilGold mining stocks are...

Momentum in Emerging Markets

Momentum in Emerging Markets  Reality < Theory February 2022. Reading Time: 10 Minutes. Author: Nicolas Rabener. SUMMARY Long-short momentum investing highlights attractive performance in Asia and emerging markets However, realized excess returns are significantly...

Why Are All Illiquid Alts Outperforming?

Why Are All Illiquid Alts Outperforming? Data manipulation is a superpower February 2022. Reading Time: 10 Minutes. Author: George Aliferis. This research note is a guest post from George Aliferis, CAIA, who runs InvestOrama, a content platform that explores the...

FX Trading: A Losers’ Game?

FX Trading: A Losers’ Game? It’s a shark tank, and if you ain’t the shark… February 2022. Reading Time: 10 Minutes. Author: Nicolas Rabener. SUMMARY FX hedge funds on average have produced zero alpha since 2007 Popular risk premia strategies have...

Smart Money, Crowd Intelligence, and AI

Smart Money, Crowd Intelligence, and AI Using human and artificial intelligence to beat the S&P 500 February 2022. Reading Time: 10 Minutes. Author: Nicolas Rabener. SUMMARY Smart money, crowd intelligence, and AI ETFs have underperformed the S&P 500 since...

Cryptocurrency Hedge Funds

Cryptocurrency Hedge Funds Just Bitcoin-beta plays? January 2022. Reading Time: 10 Minutes. Author: Nicolas Rabener. SUMMARY Cryptocurrency hedge funds generated abnormally high and uncorrelated returns since 2014 However, the returns can be simply attributed to the...