Tag: Smart Beta

  • Do you need a 4% allocation in NVDA to outperform the S&P 500?

    Do you need a 4% allocation in NVDA to outperform the S&P 500?

    The passive investing landscape has found a new focal point: NVDA’s 4% weighting in the S&P 500. This raises a pertinent question: Must an Active Manager allocate precisely 4% to NVDA to surpass the S&P 500’s performance? The answer is no. For instance, the E&R U.S. 500 Indexed Model, which allocated only 2.5% to NVDA,…

  • AlphaBlock and GaiaLens Collaborate to Build Next Generation ESG and Climate Indexes

    AlphaBlock and GaiaLens Collaborate to Build Next Generation ESG and Climate Indexes

    AlphaBlock and GaiaLens Collaborate to Build Next Generation ESG and Climate Indexes

  • Why is Shopify in top 10?

    Why is Shopify in top 10?

    TSX 60 are the most important 60 companies in Canada and Shopify [SHOP] is one of them. What we fail to understand is why SHOP after falling near 90% is not at the bottom of the weightage list among the Canadian 60 components list. Why is it in the top 10? And why does it…

  • How BSE 100 missed the Adani’s?

    How BSE 100 missed the Adani’s?

    Did you know that India’s most prominent 100 companies mapped as S&P BSE 100 experienced its emerging moment when in a matter of nearly 36 months, four Adani group companies scaled up 1000 to 2000 times? They continued to fly under the radar as they did not have enough size [market capitalization] to get a…

  • My Q&A with ChatGPT

    My Q&A with ChatGPT

    My first interaction with ChatGPT creates a lot of hope for the future. However, a lot more needs to be done before we can teach machines to assimilate knowledge. I spent time on the playground asking the following 30 questions. Though initially answers seemed a lot coherent, it did not take me much time to trip the…

  • Where are the FANGs?

    Where are the FANGs?

    Investors may find it hard to believe that there can be a systematic process, a machine, with a scoring system that anticipated the future on January 2022 at the market peak and decided to underweight the FANGs so much that not even one featured in the top 10 list. There are many ways to explain…

  • The Active SPY!

    The Active SPY!

    This is not intuitive thinking but your passive SPY (S&P500 ETF) sitting in your pension fund is only passive and low risk in perception. What you call a zero fee (or near zero fees) portfolio is not only concentrated but it is as concentrated as the most active portfolios in the world. We compared Berkshire…

  • Jack, Your Revolution is Over.

    Jack, Your Revolution is Over.

    Standing against the establishment, having a voice and speaking up needs courage. This is what you did. You spoke up against the industry which started the first Mutual Fund in 1775. Bloomberg calls it a revolution, you call it a revolution, Wall Street Journal is calling it differently, but that does not matter. Mutual Funds…