Quantocracy’s Daily Wrap for 11/09/2020

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The long-term track record of equity market neutral hedge funds is attractive, but should be viewed with scepticism due to Madoff and survivorship bias Only one index from HFRX seems sound, but his highlights negative alpha since the GFC and positive returns primarily from market beta A factor exposure analysis reveals unusual factor loadings INTRODUCTION The mutual fund selection process would be

After losing 5.6% this in the week ending 10/30/20, the S&P 500 completely reversed the losses this past week with a 7.3% gain. That is a fairly remarkable turnaround. Below is a look at all other times the S&P 500 lost 5% or more one week, and then made up for the losses and more the next week.

Recent academic papers illustrate how macroeconomic data support predictions of energy market flows and prices. Valid macro indicators include shipping costs, industrial production measures, non-energy industrial commodity prices, transportation data, weather data, financial conditions indices, and geopolitical uncertainty measures. Good practices include a focus on small models and a