MPI solutions and research are frequently featured in a number of financial and investment media outlets.
“Since 2007, only half of Ivy League endowments added positive returns to their portfolios through manager and security selection,” writes Pensions & Investments’ Charles McGrath in his latest analysis of the Ivy League endowments’ investment performance, which features a chart from our 2017 Fiscal Year Ivy League endowment research report.
“These products are not any different from managed products being offered 20 to 30 years ago, except they’re accessing these market anomalies that investors believe will produce returns via an automated process,” explains our CEO Michael Markov in that ETF Advisor’s article featuring MPI research on smart beta
“Markov Processes International… uses a model to infer what returns would have been from the endowments’ asset allocations. This led to two key findings… ” John Authers cites MPI’s 2017 Ivy League Endowment returns analysis in his weekly Financial Times Smart Money column.
“We are addressing the demand from a lot of asset managers who struggle to analyze more complex products, such as quantitative smart beta,” MPI President Jeff Schwartz tells WatersTechnology in an article about the launch of Stylus Pro Version 11.3. Click here to read the press release.
“Many advisors want to conduct quantitative analysis, but most don’t have the time. A new tool from Summit, N.J.-based (MPI) may help them perform more in-depth research on client portfolios and investment products,” writes Financial Advisor in an article about our recent Stylus Pro version 11.3 launch. Click here to read the press release.
“(MPI) will expand its risk, stress testing capabilities within the year,” writes Fund Technology in an article about our recent Stylus Pro Version 11.3 launch. Click here to read the press release.
“MPI has delivered a new research modelling technology that includes a quantitative research framework for the analysis and monitoring of managed products,” writes Global Investor Group in an article about our recent Stylus Pro Version 11.3 launch. Click here to read the press release.
Based on analysis from MPI’s Megan Woods, Institutional Investor’s Julie Segal reviews the performance of prominent Global Tactical Asset Allocation (GTAA) funds. With recent underperformance driving outflows to the once fast-growing group of strategies, the MPI study seeks to help fund selectors better evaluate GTAA products, a group of disparate, complex and often opaque funds that can potentially add valuable diversification to portfolios. For the full GTAA analysis, see our research “Parsing the Dynamics of Global Tactical Asset Allocation (GTAA) Funds“.
Supported by quantitative analysis and commentary from MPI Director of Research Apollon Fragkiskos, Risk.net takes a comprehensive look at risk parity funds’ behavior, finding that Q4 2016 returns suggest the strategy did not engage in a sell-off or act systematically to push market volatility up and asset prices down as some critics assumed.
On page 12 of the article by AlphaQ, Sean Ryan, Senior Research Analyst at investment research and technology firm, Markov Processes International (MPI) examines whether endowments have adopted the Yale model.