Description
International diversification has long been a key to stable investing. However, the increased integration and openness of global financial markets has led to rising correlations between stock market returns in particular countries, driving down the benefits of diversification and increasing the importance of country selection strategies as part of an investment process. Zaremba and Shemer explain the efficiency of quantitative investing, which captures huge amounts of data of limited scope very quickly. In the traditional approach, this data compilation is an immense undertaking, limited in scope and vulnerable to behavioral errors, but this can be overcome with the help of a new paradigm of quantitative investment at the country level. Quantitative country asset allocation can be efficiently accomplished by using wealth insights that have been generated in the academic literature, discovering many anomalies and regular patterns in asset prices. Armed with this information, investors and managers can process large amounts of data more efficiently when deciding to invest in ETFs, index funds, or futures markets.
About the Author
Adam Zaremba is Assistant Professor at the Poznan University of Economics and Business, Poland. He is an economist, adviser, and portfolio manager for investment management companies. Zaremba has written numerous research papers on financial markets and is also an individual investor with many years' experience.
Koby (Jacob) Shemer is an experienced asset manager in the Israeli Capital Market. He is the founder of Analyst IMS, a public asset management firm, and AlphaBeta, a quantitative asset management company. During his career he has been responsible for managing portfolios of assets under management totaling billions in US dollars.
Book Information
ISBN 9781349930340
Author Adam Zaremba
Format Paperback
Page Count 262
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan