Investment Innovation at the Intersection of Technology, Data, and Behavioral Finance

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Active Extension

This Quick Take explores Active Extension, a long-short equity approach that maintains full market exposure while allowing managers to express investment ideas more clearly. By relaxing the long-only constraint, the framework may improve diversification, enhance return potential, and increase portfolio efficiency.

Economic Substance Doctrine

With tax-aware investing on the rise, identifying strategies with real value has never been more important. This video explores the economic substance doctrine and why strong pre-tax investment logic is essential for sustainable after-tax returns.

Our Approach

Systematic Investing Grounded in Economic Theory

As quantitative investors, we believe that a systematic and disciplined approach is the best way to achieve long-term value. Explore our broad range of innovative, diversifying strategies.

Cliff's Perspectives

A Positive Stock-Bond Correlation Is a Terrible Reason to Add More Equity Risk to Your Portfolio

As the correlation between stocks and bonds has turned positive, many investors have questioned whether bonds still provide meaningful diversification and have looked to alternative "replacements." This perspective argues that most popular substitutes add more equity risk, not less, and shows that true diversification still requires strategies with genuinely low or negative equity beta—not simply abandoning bonds.

More Cliff's Perspectives

Investors should conduct their own analysis and consult with professional advisors prior to making any investment decisions. Diversification does not eliminate the risk of experiencing investment loss. Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Investment process is subject to change.