Category: Investment Strategy

Introduction This week, let’s gain a good understanding about “What exactly Hedge Funds are?”, “What they do?” and “Who they cater to?”. Hopefully by the end of this article, you’d associate the term “Hedge Funds” with more than just fancy cars, an elite lifestyle and humungous mansions (that’s what most movies portray right?) Alright, let’s […]

Setting the Context: Just like investors analyse different asset classes to allocate their investments, another style of investing is observing the exposure of the investment portfolio to different factors. Factors are the drivers of return across different asset classes. For example, consider growth of GDP, it’s pretty intuitive that when an economy is performing well, […]

What is Factor Investing? Introduction Factor Investing is an approach wherein the investor focuses on identifying the key drivers that push the different asset-class returns (like stocks or bonds). These drivers could be macro-economic drivers or fundamental drivers. Following Factor Investing would allow an investor to dig deeper into the exposures (think risks) for each […]