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Exchange traded fund investors should consider an investment methodology that offers the chance to win by not losing.
In the recent webcast, Picking Winners is a Losing Game: Lessons Learned from Moneyball, New Age Alpha’s co-founder and CIO, Julian Koski, and senior portfolio manager, Andy Kern, pointed to the success story of the Oakland A’s, or what some may know as Moneyball. They argued that investors should avoid sexy and expensive superstars and focus more on the best on-base percentages that can help reduce the randomness of outcomes.
The strategists argued that investors lose money when a stock is overpriced because market information is not perfect, so humans tend to impound vague and ambiguous information into stock prices. Consequently, companies are at risk of being unable to deliver the growth implied by their stock prices.
Specifically, the strategists highlighted that over the long term, avoiding losers can generate improved alpha and enhanced risk-adjusted returns. For instance, since 2002, a portfolio of low human factor quintile investments generated annualized returns of 14.3% with a Sharpe ratio of 0.84. In comparison, a portfolio of high human factor quintile investments showed an annualized return of 10.4% with a Sharpe ratio of 0.48. In other words, exposure to a high human factor generated worse risk-adjusted returns over the long term.
Investors who are interested in an approach that avoids the losers to capture long-term market returns can look to New Age Alpha’s latest ETF offerings, including the AVDR US LargeCap Leading ETF (CBOE: AVDR) and the AVDR US LargeCap ESG ETF (CBOE: AVDG). These strategies offer an actuarial approach with an uncorrelated source of return.
Financial advisors who are interested in learning about the investment strategy can watch the webcast here on demand.