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When building factor returns, such as Momentum and Low Volatility, I see the same mistakes repeat, weighting quantiles as 50/50 with no account into its Risk profile but rather just looking at return differences. This is completey wrong....

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Leveraged ETFs: The Mathematics and Practical Profitability of Volatility Decay

For this post we will use the following papers around the topic:

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Multi-Factor Hedging with Clustering Algorithms

In my earlier post, I discussed the performance of two-factor hedging using market and industry-level factors to calculate hedging errors. This analysis goes a step further, exploring whether clustering assets to find highly correlated stoc...

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Clusters in Clusters - Generating portfolios for Statistical Arbitrage

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Risk Parity Optimization, Modern Portfolio Management

In this analysis, we'll dive into Qian's (2005) work on risk parity optimization and discuss a couple of papers:

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