The message from the stock market is clear. The new market cycle is punishing static asset allocations and passive strategies. Experts like BlackRock expect a decade of low returns in the indices. This means up and down repetitive waves and goodbye to the bull market. Here are the facts: The S&P500 recorded a first wave...Read More

Many experts say we entered a new market regime of high volatility and lower returns. In this new market cycle, it is essential to have the right technology to promptly spot emerging risks and opportunities across stocks. To explore how to respond to this changing investment cycle, we went to Rocco Pellegrinelli, CEO of Trendrating – a...Read More

By Rocco Pellegrinelli, Founder & CEO of Trendrating 2022 issued in a new stock market regime that caught many investors off guard. After a decade long bull market, a new secular cycle started in January 2022. The ensuing bear trend produced broad losses over the course of the year. Experts now say that we face...Read More

The bull market is gone, and experts say that we are in a new market regime. A new cycle of low returns can last a few years, as historical data can confirm. Returns from indices can prove to be volatile and erratic, but the performance dispersion across stocks offers the opportunity to perform by embracing...Read More

[Shifting investment markets driven by uncertainty and volatility create challenges and opportunities. According to Nigel Bolton, co-global head of equities at BlackRock – “Investors can now expect a decade of higher inflation and lower returns”. Many analysts are calling it a “regime change” in financial markets and warn that this can expose the inadequacy of several conventional investment...Read More

Risk and return are the two essential aspects of financial investment. Risk is the probability of suffering losses, whereas return is an income earned through an investment. The higher the risk, the higher the return on investment and vice versa. Individual investors like to minimize risk as much as possible. As an investor, to maximize...Read More

[Every investment universe exhibits broad performance dispersion – a range of performance results in markets and sectors that still exist despite the overall current market weakness. Whatever investment approach or selection strategy you use, taking advantage of performance dispersion can support your alpha generation and risk management efforts. The question is how do you discover...Read More

Performance dispersion is an ongoing investment phenomenon where all markets and sectors exhibit a wide range of performance results that still exists today despite the overall weakness of the markets. Whatever investment approach or selection strategy you use, taking advantage of performance dispersion can support your alpha generation and risk management efforts. This investment phenomenon...Read More

From starting as a portfolio manager to founding Trendrating, Rocco Pellegrinelli, Founder and CEO has come a long way. He launched Brainpower in 1996 and established it as one of the top portfolio management systems globally. Later, it was acquired by Bloomberg in 2006. Then, he started a research and development project to design a superior model to capture price trends in...Read More

[With the growing volatility, uncertainty, and complexity of modern markets, traditional methodologies and investment processes utilizing conventional data do not seem to be able to capture the changing dynamics of the markets. The new forces driving price trends result in fundamentals having declining impact and set up a need for more dynamic tools to grasp...Read More