Analysts delve deep into portfolio holdings to see what drives performance. Bill Smead, lead manager of the $1.2 billion Smead Value fund, set up the strategy and firm in 2007…
Style Research hosted a three-city, West Coast roadshow along with Mercer and RBC Global Asset Management addressing the evolution, evaluation and implementation of environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies. The…
BOSTON (October 12, 2016) – Style Research, an independent, global provider of portfolio style, risk and performance analytics, was awarded Best Research and Data Vendor at the Fund Intelligence US…
The sheer volume of funds available on the investment market – and the analytics and research around them – creates an array of challenges that any fund manager, fund buyer…
Although active share has the popular appeal of being a simple proxy for portfolio active risk, it shouldn’t be relied on as the only risk measure when differentiating between funds.…
How can we compare portfolio risk between competing funds based on their holdings? How do we know what typical levels of portfolio risk are, and what is considered high or…
Many investors have felt the practical frustration of trying to differentiate between investment products with similar style descriptions, such as “Large Growth” funds. Equity portfolios labelled with the same style…