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In this research, we show a two-phase scenario-based CVaR hedging approach to help minimize downside risk in MAC portfolios.

When the Axioma Global Multi-Asset Class Risk Model (AXGMM) is combined with the industry-leading Axioma Portfolio Optimizer, the ability to track, tilt and hedge multi-asset class portfolios is exceptional. But its prowess in handling fixed income portfolios on their own should not be overlooked.

Qontigo’s Tax-Managed Investing solution enables asset managers to improve post-tax returns through tax savings. Two new whitepapers investigate the benefit of active tax management for investment strategies, focusing on a broad cap-weighted equity market index and on factor-based strategies.

Tax alpha is an often-overlooked source of improving passive and smart-beta index performance with direct indexing offering an approach to harvest tax alpha in practice. Once confined to high-net worth investors, direct indexing is open to a much lower threshold, allowing wealth managers to help their clients harvest losses and defer gains on individual securities in the portfolio while tracking a parent index and satisfying each client’s personal needs.

Axioma and CS HOLT have collaborated to create a smart beta index — the Credit Suisse HOLT © Global Multi-Factor Portfolio — that united the stock selection prowess of CS HOLT with Axioma’s portfolio construction and risk model expertise. In this paper, we highlight three key principles that drove the process to create this portfolio.

The traditional Markowitz MVO approach is based on a single-period model. For long-term investors, multi-period optimization offers the opportunity to make “wait-and-see” policy decisions by including approximate forecasts and long-term policy decisions beyond the rebalancing time horizon.