On Balance
President Macron’s decision to call a snap election has had a dramatic effect on bond and equity markets to the extent that and even before Marine Le Pen offered a concilliatory olive branch, we were looking at some Indicators and signals coming from Apollo that might suggest some interesting investment opportunities are beginning to show […]
There are many reasons why our Smart Alpha process works so well and stands up to scrutiny.
We start with the investible universe and immediately ‘knock out’ the stocks we don’t want to own. Stocks are initially selected by Factor – a ‘bottom up’ selection process.
The story of this sector has been one that demonstrates perfectly the Apollo Investment Cycle as we have seen the move from Value to Re-rating and Growth. We now have a group of low volatility Re-rating and Growth stocks – otherwise known as Quality and as we look at the group today we see the majority showing Accelerator Long signals to fully support the investment case that investors have been buying into.
As we start a new Smart Alpha “Sprint period” for out S&P500 based Strategy, it is worth reviewing how we have performed so far this year.
In the Spring of 2022 European Banks started to generate Accelerator long signals, slowly but surely, one by one until the sector itself lit up in a green tinge from April – June and here we are today coming out of a positive earnings season, seeing the sector re-rating.
So, when asked the question ‘Why did you own BP?’ you point at the image of the Apollo Investment Cycle. Answering the more difficult question, ‘Why did you not own BP during the last 2 years ?’ That’s more awkward.
At Libra we think differently and deliver the best user experience for Active equity investors applying the years of experience and understanding that we have in equity markets. We not only know what information is going to make a difference to client performance but provide the best experience.
It’s the big calls that make the big difference to both Equity and Cross Asset investors and we’ve been doing this successfully for years.
How Apollo signals can help to gauge the market. As a first blogpost, it seemed timely to showcase how some of the Apollo signals and indicators can inform us about the prospects for the US market over the next twelve months.
Libra Investment Services has spent the last twelve years operating as a research and advisory business to equity market investors worldwide. At the heart of our approach is the idea that equity markets are not a complicated problem to simplify and solve but instead are an open, complex adaptive system to be analysed and understood as much as we can; regardless of their current state of uncertainty or unpredictability.