Despite the Russian scandal hanging over the Trump administration, many investors still believe some type of the tax reform bill may pass this year. In late April, the members of the administration outlined the broad strokes of the proposed plan and called it the “biggest tax cut in history”. Table 1 summarizes the main points … Read more
One of the most-watched fear gauges on Wall Street has been traded at the lowest levels in decades. The CBOE Volatility Index VIX, which is based on the 30-day options contracts on S&P 500 Index, closed on May 9th at 9.77, the lowest level since Dec. 27, 1993. Despite the spike last week, the VIX … Read more
BOSTON, MA – May 18, 2017 – Julex Capital Management, LLC., announced today that its Dynamic Income, Dynamic Sector and Dynamic Emerging Market strategies were recognized with “Top Guns” status within the Informa Investment Solutions’ PSN investment manager ranking database for Q1 2017. JULEX DYNAMIC INCOME Informa Investment Solution’s PSN “TOP GUNS” Status for Recent-Quarter … Read more
The Dynamic Developed Market strategy is an international equity strategy that seeks to achieve better returns than the MSCI EAFA index with lower volatility and lower peak-to-trough drawdowns in a full market cycle. The strategy rotates among the country ETFs in the equity markets of developed economies. It has the flexibility of investing only in … Read more
The Dynamic Commodity is a strategy that seeks to minimize downside risk while maximizing upside potentials by tactically positioning in commodity ETFs with the flexibility of moving to bonds and cash completely. It aims to outperform Bloomberg Commodity Index with lower volatility and lower peak-to-trough drawdowns in a full market cycle. The strategy rotates among … Read more
Risk Managed Multi Factor REIT is a quantitative strategy aiming to deliver both outperformance over FTSE NAREIT All Equity Index during market upswings and downside management during severe market downturns. It combines our multi factor stock selection model with our tactical risk management tool. When the market is identified as “risk on”, the strategy normally … Read more
Risk Managed Multi Factor MLP is a quantitative strategy aiming to deliver both outperformance over Alerian MLP Index during market upswings and downside management during severe market downturns. It combines our multi factor stock selection model with our tactical risk management tool. When the market is identified as “risk on”, the strategy normally invested in … Read more
The debate on active vs. passive investing has been heating up in last few years as investors are becoming more and more in favor of passive investment funds. In fact, even the legendary investor Warren Buffett advocated investing in index funds in his most recent annual newsletter. He wrote “A lot of very smart people … Read more
In the past 10 years, smart beta has become one of the fastest growing investment segments. Being called by different names such as strategic beta, fundamental indexing or factor investing, smart beta represents rules-based strategies that aim to deliver better returns than traditional market-cap-weighted indexes by selecting stocks or using different weighting schemes based on … Read more
The US stock market has been in a bull run for almost eight years since March 2009. The stock valuation is getting higher and higher as the market continues setting records. Currently, the 12-month trailing price-earnings ratio of S&P 500 companies is traded at 21.1, which is much higher than the historical average of 16.6 … Read more