Leveraged Exchange Traded Funds have become a significant factor in the U.S. equity market. According to a new Federal Reserve discussion paper their mechanical rebalancing rules can reinforce or even escalate large directional moves in the stock market, both through their own transactions and other market participants’ front running.
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.
