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How Can We Explain the Low-Risk Anomaly?

August 28, 2025

The low-risk anomaly in financial markets has puzzled researchers and investors, challenging the traditional risk-return paradigm (higher risk->higher return). This phenomenon, where low-risk assets outperform their high-risk counterparts on a risk-adjusted basis, has been observed across various asset classes, including stocks and mutual funds. What may be the possible explanation? Pass-through mutual funds, which aim to replicate the performance of specific market indices, play a crucial role in this context by channeling investor flows and potentially influencing asset prices through demand pressure.

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The Best Strategies for FX Hedging

August 22, 2025

Foreign exchange (FX) markets are a cornerstone of global finance, offering investors and corporations opportunities to manage currency risk, enhance returns, and optimize portfolio performance. Among the most critical challenges in FX is the design of robust hedging strategies to mitigate exposure to volatile currency movements. How does the financial industry deal with this task? We can draw inspiration from the paper written by Castro, Hamill, Harber, Harvey, and Van Hemert, which explores strategies such as dynamic hedging, trend-following, and momentum-based approaches, the concept of carry, and the interplay of these strategies with fundamental concepts like Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) and valuation metrics.

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Quantifying Global Real Estate Returns Over Centuries

August 18, 2025

In the realm of quantitative finance, understanding the dynamics of real estate returns over extended periods is often overlooked, which is not good, as real estate constitutes a significant portion of investors’ portfolios. The article titled Global Housing Returns, Discount Rates, and the Emergence of the Safe Asset, 1465-2024 fills the gap and provides a comprehensive historical overview of real estate yields, offering a chronological overview of real estate returns not just over a few decades but over several centuries.

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Quantpedia in July 2025

August 11, 2025


Hello all,

What have we accomplished in the last month?

– New custom data import procedure
– 5th episode of our YouTube video series QuantBeats
– Interview with the winners of Quantpedia Awards 2025
– 10 new Quantpedia Premium strategies have been added to our database
– 9 new related research papers have been included in existing Premium strategies during the last month
– Additionally, we have produced 8 new backtests written in QuantConnect code
– 5 new blog posts that you may find interesting have been published on our Quantpedia blog in the previous month

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