Markets touched yet another all-time high last month. The past year has been a gold mine for investors as benchmark & broader indices continued their momentum. The U.S. has been witnessing a bit of demand-led inflationary pressure, however it’s worth pointing out that rising inflation is synonymous with an improving economy and equities usually do...Read More

The performance dispersion across any investment universe is a gold mine for active investors that have the right tools to profit from it. The ability to “identify and capture” some of the top 25% performers can make a big difference. It is possible to gain an edge using intelligent “trend validation” analytics. At Trendrating we...Read More

Trendrating is a recognized leading provider of advanced analytics and first class technology for asset managers, wealth managers, private bankers, hedge funds and advisors. Trendrating is at the forefront of the new technology platforms and sophisticated analytics that are changing the game for active portfolio managers. The company offers last generation of data and systems...Read More

The performance dispersion across any investment universe is a gold mine for active investors that have the right tools to profit from it. The ability to “identify and capture” some of the top 25% performers can make a big difference. In 2020, if you examine the S&P 500 constituents, the differential between the top 25%...Read More

Active managers have a great opportunity to deliver alpha profiting from the fact that equity markets display a huge dispersion of performance all the time. In 2020, if you look at the S&P 500 constituents, the differential between the top 25% performers and the bottom 25% performers was massive. The average return of the top...Read More

Over the last 6 months in US the top 25% performers of the 500 largest cap stocks recorded an average  gain of 102% . In Europe the top 25% of the 600 largest cap securities posted an average profit of 65%. The performance dispersion is a gold mine for active managers using next-generation, advanced analytics...Read More

In an investment environment characterized by volatility and an overload of noise, investment managers are under increasing pressure to deliver results that outperform the market. When you look at 2020 investment performance, open-end funds had the worst track record in recent memory losing $317 billion in outflows. At the same time, exchange traded funds (ETFs)...Read More

Fund managers are finding it increasingly difficult to deliver profit from investments that outperform market baselines. There is an increase in noise and volatility and the old rules of investing don’t apply in the same way as they used to. New factors, such as momentum trading, are having a dramatic impact on pricing trends; investment...Read More

[The nature of markets evolve and change. What is driving today’s volatile markets are increased uncertainty, complexity, huge institutional money flows, sentiment and social media. In this current environment it has become important to pay more attention to and have respect for price trends. That is because these trends can make a substantive difference in...Read More

Price trends that can make a difference in the annual performance of an actively managed portfolio cannot be captured with metrics, analytics and research that disregards the impact of the big money flow in and out of individual stocks. Fundamental analysis alone proves to be of little help to the mutual fund industry performance, where...Read More