Archive for May, 2012

Word Clouds & Fund Launches

Tuesday 22nd May, 2012

Word clouds are a way to take a piece of text and visualize those words that appear frequently. The nature of fund products makes them an ideal text source. Take this example that reveals the asset managers that feature in the Style Research Funds Analyzer.

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Author: Jeremy | Categories: Blog, Style Research Funds Analyzer

Monthly Style Summary to End April 2012

Friday 4th May, 2012

Outside of Pacific ex Japan, during April markets gave back some of their first quarter gains, and especially in the Eurozone, where economic, and increasingly, political uncertainty resurfaced.  Against this backdrop of retrenchment, Value continued to underperform on a broad basis, well beyond the traditional Value sectors. And Growth, whether based on historic, current or forecast measures, performed strongly in the most coherent display of factor returns for many months.   Momentum and (low) Beta strategies were also rewarded.

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Author: Peter | Categories: Monthly Style Summary