Volatility targeting has historically enhanced the statistical alpha of standard equity strategies. That is because volatility is more predictable in the short-term than returns. Thus, Sharpe ratios tend to decline, when volatility rises. Expected returns increase after turmoil but only overtime, when volatility might already be subsiding. On its own volatility is not a pure […]
Macrosynergy is a London based macroeconomic research and technology company whose founders have developed and employed macro quantamental investment strategies in liquid, tradable asset classes, across many markets and for a variety of different factors to generate competitive, uncorrelated investment returns for institutional investors for two decades. Our quantitative-fundamental (quantamental) computing system tracks a broad range of real-time macroeconomic trends in developed and emerging countries, transforming them into macro systematic quantamental investment strategies. In June 2020 Macrosynergy and J.P. Morgan started a collaboration to scale the quantamental system and to popularize tradable economics across financial markets.
