We’ve been receiving a lot of good feedback on our alpha-driven series, including last week’s dissection of alpha trends at the Industry Group (GICS2) level since Jan 2018. To wrap up our alpha trends series, we’ll pull the lens back to perform more of a longitudinal study, so we can get an understanding of how these industry trends have played out since 2007.We’ll also provide our weekly market and factor update.

The end of the year is good a time for reflection and analysis, and many investors take the opportunity to use the typically less hectic market period between mid-December and mid-January to examine their process, figure out what’s worked over the past year, and think about improvements for the next year. A key candidate for annual adjustment is the definition of the investment universe, or if the investment universe is fixed (e.g. on an external benchmark), the process to prioritize securities for analyst research.

We hope you enjoyed Thanksgiving weekend with your family while we took the week off from Factor Spotlight to do the same. Today, we’re excited to introduce our latest product feature - the Experiments Manager, which is now available for all Omega Point members. The utility of Experiments revolves around portfolio rebalancing, as it allows you to evaluate different “what-if” versions of the same portfolio on a single screen.

With Experiments you can: