Our platform is designed to help the DIY investor build and manage tactical asset allocation portfolios, but we understand that not everyone wants to go it alone. Some prefer to have their portfolio managed by a professional. To service those investors looking for an all-in-one managed solution, we’ve licensed our “Meta Strategy” to investment advisors […]
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New Platform Features and a Look at What’s Coming Next
We continue to expand our platform based on invaluable feedback from members. Here’s a quick look at features we’ve added over the last month, and what’s coming up in the near future. New Feature #1: Longer Model Portfolio Backtests New here? Our platform allows members to combine multiple TAA strategies together into what we call […]
Sneak Peak: Robustness to Noise
This is an early preview of a new analytical tool we’ll be adding to our platform later this month. Learn more about what we do. Broadly speaking, the goal of tactical asset allocation is to take advantage of broad market trends via trend-following and/or momentum. Those trends can be difficult to identify because of “noise”; […]
We’ve Added Three New Strategies
There’s a little something for everyone in this latest batch of new strategies. We’ll be exploring all three strategies in more detail on this blog in the coming month. 1. Movement Capital’s Composite Strategy (member link to backtest) Movement Capital is new on our radar, but has quickly become one of our go-to resources for […]
Allocate Smartly Just Got Even Better
We completed a BIG site upgrade over the weekend. 90% of the changes are behind the scenes. We refactored our code top to bottom. This site has come a long ways from its humble beginnings and it needed some spring cleaning. This will also help with scalability, to make sure we stay a few steps […]
New from Our Team: BetterBuyAndHold.com
We’re happy to announce the launch of a new service from our team: BetterBuyAndHold.com We recognize that even TAA investors often need a stable, static allocation to form the core of their portfolio. Our new service is dedicated to building better, more realistic buy and hold allocations. We do that using two key statistical techniques: […]
Two New Strategies Added: Defensive Asset Allocation and Accelerating Dual Momentum
We’ve begun tracking two new tactical asset allocation strategies: Defensive Asset Allocation (DAA) and Accelerating Dual Momentum (ADM). We’ll be introducing both in more detail on our blog in the coming weeks. Members can review their historical performance and begin tracking them in near real-time in our members area now: DAA | ADM. Defensive Asset […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]