FIS Group Rebrands to Xponance®
PHILADELPHIA, PA – FIS Group and its wholly owned subsidiary, Piedmont Investment Advisors, announced today that, effective April 1, 2020, they are rebranding into a newly formed combined corporate entity, Xponance®. The company has $9.5 billion* in assets under management, remains 100% employee owned, and maintains the existing ownership structure…
What’s Driving ESG Returns – A Look Under the Hood
Interest in environmental, social, and governance oriented investing, or ESG investing has increased substantially in the past few years. More and more asset owners and asset managers are embracing the idea of focusing on investments with better ESG profiles and this...Webinar
COVID-19 Is a Stress Test Exposing Structural Hurdles in Both Our Financial System and Society
We are in strange and scary times. We are at war with a virus which is all the more deadly in that it cannot be easily discerned but it is metastasizing geometrically. Moreover, COVID-19 and the measures required to contain…
Tracy Cao
Tracy Cao, CFA* Vice PresidentTeam Lead Manager Research, Multi-Manager Strategies Tracy Cao is Vice President, Team Lead for Manager Research, Multi-Manager Strategies at Xponance and joined the firm in 2013. In this capacity, Tracy identifies and evaluates...Omaar Poitevien
Omaar Poitevien Lead Manager Operations Research Specialist Omaar Poitevien is Lead Manager Operations Research Specialist for Xponance’s multi-manager solutions business. He reports jointly to the Director of Portfolio Operations and Reporting and the Senior...
The Sweet Spot in the US Equity Markets – Part 3
In the last post in this series, we update and expand on our analysis to explore the impact of rising and falling interest rates on the performance of various capitalization tranches. Finally, we now look at the performance of the “Sweet Spot” in different interest rate regimes.
Adam Choppin
Adam Choppin, CFA*, APFI Assistant Portfolio Manager, Multi-Manager Strategies Adam Choppin is Vice President and Assistant Portfolio Manager, Multi-Manager Strategies at Xponance®. Adam joined the firm in May 2013 and he is the Assistant Portfolio Manager for...X Test Areas
Think Globally, Invest Locally Regional Emerging Markets Fund allows investors access to institutional quality investment managers domiciled in the region of their investment focus Offers clients greater diversification and minimal overlap relative to large emerging...
Will U.S. Equities Continue to Trounce Non-U.S. Equities?
For global equity investors, the decade ending on December 31, 2019 was undoubtedly the American decade. The performance of U.S. equities more than doubled and in many cases tripled other countries and regions such as emerging markets…
2020 Outlook for Emerging and Frontier Markets
While the U.S. continued its decade-long run, surging ahead another +31% in 2019 to lead all major developed markets (except Switzerland, +32.5%), three emerging markets did even better last year. Taiwan gained +36% as investors reevaluated the “moat” of its market champion, …
Microbes, Markets, and the Dragon
The coronavirus outbreak in China, named COVID-19 by WHO, is understandably dominating news coverage and depressing Chinese risk plays. Since 12/9/2019 when the first coronavirus case was announced from the City of Wuhan, confirmed cases have risen rapidly to over 40,000 as of this report.
The Sweet Spot in the US Equity Markets – Part 2
In our previous post, we sought to identify and quantify the investment opportunity or edge within various market capitalization segments. We found that the top 1000 names in the Russell 2500 benchmark constitute a sweet spot across the entire Russell 3000.
Impacts of a Rejuvenating Workforce
As the secular bull market in long term treasury bonds approaches its 40th year, the consensus around falling interest rates has morphed from a shared opinion to an accepted reality. Reputations and fortunes have been made and lost by adherents and skeptics respectively.
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MARKET OUTLOOK Q1 2020: Saved by Jerome: A Second Wind for the Late Cycle Rally
During the second half of 2019, the late cycle bull market for financial risk assets sprinted to the finish line despite lackluster global growth. Global markets ended the year on a bullish note, with the U.S. S&P 500 climbing to another record close.