Press

MPI solutions and research are frequently featured in a number of financial and investment media outlets.

How Did Investors End Up on the Other Side of This Trade?

“MPI deconstructs complex volatility strategies to find that many investors might have been doing the opposite of what they thought,” writes Julie Segal from Institutional Investor in her article about MPI’s analysis of the Structured Alpha hedge fund.

The Real Return Driver Behind Brown University’s FY20

AlternativesWatch’s Susan Baretto explores how MPI’s patented analysis technique — Dynamic Style Analysis, was used to dissect Brown University’s endowment annual returns, providing a plausible explanation of the outlier’s spectacular FY20 results.

 

Ivy League Endowments Underperform 60-40 Portfolio, Again

Read more on MPI’s annual assessment of the Ivy League Endowments, featured in Chief Investment Officer, where our analysts provide a deeper look into FY20 performance and the likely reasons behind the sharp drop over FY19.

Some Quants Fear More Deleveraging to Come

“Estimates of daily changes in leverage at risk parity mutual funds, one group of volatility-targeting investors pinpointed as contributors to deleveraging last month, suggest some funds cut leverage sharply but others didn’t“, writes Faye Kilburn about MPI’s research in her Risk.net article. 

Harvard and Yale Are No Match for the Bears

“…how was it possible for so many endowments to make bad choices among private equity and venture capital funds? The following chart from Markov suggests that it is down to outlandishly wide variations in performance within the private equity/venture capital world,” writes John Authers about MPI’s research in his opinion piece on Bloomberg.