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Sector Rotation with Fama-French Alphas

Allocate Smartly tests and tracks asset allocation strategies sourced from books, academic papers and other publications. Most of the strategies that we test though never make it on to this site. There are a variety of reasons that might be, but often it’s simply because they’re not very good. Usually we just let those strategies […]

Filed Under: TAA Strategies, Things That Don't Work

Timing TAA Strategies Based on Relative Strength: A Suboptimal Approach

We track a wide range of tactical asset allocation strategies in near real-time (41 and counting), which members can combine into their own custom portfolios. We provide members with a wealth of data to understand how each strategy fits into a coherent trading plan, but we don’t tell members the absolute “best” ones to trade […]

Filed Under: TAA Analysis, Things That Don't Work

Tactical Asset Allocation in October

This is a summary of the recent performance of a wide range of excellent tactical asset allocation strategies. These strategies are sourced from books, academic papers, and other publications. While we don’t (yet) include every published TAA model, these strategies are broadly representative of the TAA space. Learn more about what we do or let AllocateSmartly […]

Filed Under: TAA Performance

We’re Looking for Feedback on Memberships Tailored to Industry Professionals

A big percentage of our members are industry professionals (investment advisors, financial planners, etc.), presumably using our platform behind the scenes to assist in advising clients. We’re quant finance geeks at heart, and we built this site from that perspective (just the facts ma’am), but we want to make sure that our platform is also […]

Filed Under: Site Announcements

Meta Strategy: A Smart Approach to Combining TAA Strategies

We’re very excited for the launch of an awesome new feature for our members: Meta Strategy. We track a wide range of published tactical asset allocation strategies in near real-time (40 and counting), which members can then combine into their own custom portfolios. Our platform helps members better understand how each strategy fits into a […]

Filed Under: Meta Strategy, Site Announcements

Tactical Asset Allocation in September (Now Adjusted for Timing Luck)

This is a summary of the recent performance of a wide range of excellent tactical asset allocation strategies. These strategies are sourced from books, academic papers, and other publications. While we don’t (yet) include every published TAA model, these strategies are broadly representative of the TAA space. Learn more about what we do or let AllocateSmartly […]

Filed Under: TAA Performance

Meb Faber’s Trinity Portfolio (Lite)

This is a test of the Trinity Portfolio from Meb Faber and Cambria Investments, so named for the three key elements of the strategy: (1) a globally diversified mix of assets, (2) a tilt towards the value and momentum factors, and (3) exposure to momentum and trend-following. We’ve titled our test Trinity “Lite” because we’ve made […]

Filed Under: TAA Strategies

Tactical Asset Allocation in August

This is a summary of the recent performance of a wide range of excellent tactical asset allocation strategies. These strategies are sourced from books, academic papers, and other publications. While we don’t (yet) include every published TAA model, these strategies are broadly representative of the TAA space. Learn more about what we do or let AllocateSmartly […]

Filed Under: TAA Performance

Timing Luck and Portfolio Tranching

In this post we discuss portfolio “tranching” (i.e. dividing a portfolio into overlapping slices of the same underlying strategy) to minimize “timing luck”. This is an under discussed but important topic in tactical asset allocation. For more smart thoughts on portfolio tranching, see this excellent piece from Newfound Research. For our test case, we’ll use […]

Filed Under: TAA Analysis, Timing Luck & Portfolio Tranching

Allocate Smartly Just Got Even Better

Allocate Smartly just got even better, with three awesome new features to help members make better Tactical Asset Allocation (TAA) decisions: Multiple Custom Model Portfolios + Dashboard Portfolio Tranching Aggregate Asset Allocation Report Multiple Custom Model Portfolios A key component of our members area is what we call “custom model portfolios”. What is a model […]

Filed Under: Site Announcements, Timing Luck & Portfolio Tranching

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