Analytic Investors, one of the investment teams within Wells Fargo Asset Management, is a leading expert and pioneer in factor based investing and strategies designed to outperform the market with less downside risk. Our strategies are based on strong academic evidence and utilise time-tested quantitative techniques that combine responsive, disciplined individual security selection with unparalleled risk management.
Please join us as we explore two different techniques to reduce equity risk without sacrificing equity returns. Over the past eight years, strong equity returns and low fixed income yields have led investors to reevaluate their equity risk exposure and adjust asset allocations by incorporating strategies like low volatility equity and long/short equity. As a result, these kinds of factor-based investing strategies have become more mainstream and gained the respect of many institutional clients and consultants. We will explain the academic foundation to this style of investing and highlight how investors can utilise these strategies to reduce equity risk without sacrificing long term returns. We will also discuss scenarios in which these investment styles tend to win and lose, benchmarking issues, and common misconceptions.