Balancing Company and Factor Risk
- Use fundamental analysis to understand company specific risk
- Understanding the business allows for a better assessment of the company specific risk of failure/disruption
- Use traditional factor analysis to evaluate sources of stock price volatility
- Momentum, growth, size, valuation, etc
- Utilize our proprietary factor model to evaluate exposures to macroeconomic variables that can/might change
- Inflation
- Optimism
- Economic Growth
Composite Performance as of September 30, 2024*
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