Using Factor Analysis to Deploy Capital Into Fundamental Managers' Portfolios

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Omega Point is a platform that gives discretionary fundamental managers insight into the quantitative impacts that they're seeing in their portfolio. We recognize that sometimes you don't have the power of diversification associated with those ideas, right? But what we can do is help them improve their overall sort of performancesort of a no mega point, right? And their ability to sort of deploy capital in the market through a set of quantitative techniques or overlays, if you will,.

After March 2020, a growing research interest of mine was the question, “how do strategies reflexively impact the markets they trade?” Beyond crowding risk, can adoption of strategies fundamentally change market dynamics.

In Season 3 Episode 11, I spoke with Omer Cedar, who argues that equity quants have done precisely that. The mass adoption of factor models, whether for alpha or risk, fundamentally changed how baskets of stocks are bought and sold. For a discretionary manager to ignore this sea change is to ignore a fundamental shift in the current of the water they swim in.

In this clip from the episode, Omer discusses how quants have changed the market and how fundamental managers should use this information to sharpen their edge.