Introducing Lenses: Evolving Our Newsletter Alongside Our Platform
Since we launched Factor Spotlight, our goal has been to provide investors with timely, data-driven insights into what’s driving market behavior. Over time, as Omega Point’s platform has grown, so too has our ability to bring new perspectives to the table. Today, we’re excited to introduce our newly updated newsletter: Lenses.
What’s new in Lenses?
The updated format is built around clarity, structure, and immediate relevance. Each issue now includes a brief executive summary of key market signals and two core analytics sections:
- Surprise Metric – Highlights factor movements that fall outside their historical norms, sourced from our open ecosystem of risk model providers. This is estimated by taking the realized return of the factor over its predicted 1-year standard deviation.
- Thematic Crowding – Tracks hedge fund exposure to aggregate themes based on beta to the Wolfe QES Hedge Fund Crowding factor. We aggregate themes bottoms up from multiple sources, including broker baskets and LLMs.
And we’ll provide conversation starters based on these signals that you can bring back to your team.
Why the change?
While factors will always remain a foundational part of how we understand markets, our platform has expanded to include powerful analytics around hedge fund crowding, macro exposures, and thematic positioning. With these new capabilities, we felt it was time to evolve the scope of the newsletter beyond just factors, so you can get a more complete picture of what’s shaping investment opportunity and risk.
We’re just getting started! Tell us what you think.
As with our platform, Lenses will continue to evolve. We’re already thinking about additional dimensions we could introduce - macro regime modelling, augmented risk and performance attribution, emerging themes, or intraday factor analysis. But we want your input to help guide that direction.
If you’ve got feedback, questions, or ideas, we’d love to hear from you. Reach out to us at market@ompnt.com.
Thanks for being part of the journey,
Roland Smart,
Chief Marketing Officer
