Mutual Fund A mutual fund is an investment vehicle that is made up of a pool of funds collected from many investors for the purpose of investing in securities such as stocks, bonds, money market instruments and similar assets. Mutual funds are operated by money managers, who invest the fund’s capital and attempt to produce capital gains and income […]
A measure of the volatility, or systematic risk, of a security or a portfolio in comparison to the market as a whole. Beta is used in the capital asset pricing model (CAPM), a model that calculates the expected return of an asset based on its beta and expected market returns. It is also known as “beta
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SiAlpha outperformed by 5.62% in the month of July 2012 by generating a total return of 6.88% vs. a return of 1.26% for S&P 500 during the same period. Cumulative Benchmark Comparison Value Added Monthly Index Allocation by Sector
SiAlpha underperformed by 1.20% in 2nd Quarter of 2007 by generating a total return of 5.08% vs. a return of 6.28% for S&P 500 during the same period. Cumulative Benchmark Comparison
Quantitative investing is a form of alternative investment strategy that aims to remove emotion and personal discretion of an individual from the investment selection and management process. It uses systematic mathematical processes to turn investing into a “science” thereby removing the behavioural biases that are inherent in human decision-making. For example, individual investor may say,
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