Absolute Return Overlay Solutions: The Best Hope?
QMA's Global Multi-Asset Solution team explains potential benefits of portable alpha overlays, which can meaningfully enhance returns over strategic allocations
Absolute Return
Factor-driven strategies utilize a disciplined risk-budgeting approach to portfolio construction.
Investment Philosophy
Factor Models
A systematic framework using a mix of fundamental and market-based factors may successfully identify market mis-pricings and capture available risk premia over time.
Asset Class Expertise
A fundamental understanding of the drivers of returns determines the most suitable set of factors for each asset class.
Allocate by Risk Budget
A disciplined risk budgeting approach to portfolio construction allocates to individual diversifying return drivers to maximize risk adjusted returns with low exposure to traditional asset class risk.
Customizable Implementation
The modular approach allows for transparent and flexible portfolio solutions incorporating both absolute and total return elements. We offer overlay solutions to meet the specific challenges of our clients.
Insights
Multi-Asset Value Payoff: Is Recent Underperformance Cyclical?
A new approach to explore a link between the well-known macroeconomic exposures of traditional asset classes and those of value premia in a multi-asset context.
Currency Management for International Equity
Examines the difficulty of managing currency exposures in international equity portfolios.
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Commodity Strategy
A systematic, factor-based investment strategy that harnesses economic fundamentals and seeks to deliver consistent returns over a market cycle.
Global Macro
A systematic, factor-based investment strategy designed to deliver consistent absolute returns over a market cycle.
Global Multi-Asset Solutions
Fully customizable approaches harvest both traditional and non-traditional sources of return while mitigating downside risk.