Founder Evidente. Top rated quantitative analyst, Evidente

Sam Ferraro

Founder Evidente. Top rated quantitative analyst

Evidente

Evidente is an independent financial education firm that delivers innovative financial advice to wholesale investors, including active long only funds, hedge funds, pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds, in Australia and globally.  Drawing on academic research in asset pricing, behavioural finance and portfolio construction, Evidente provides wholesale investors with commercial solutions to stock selection and asset allocation decisions across equities and other asset classes.

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<ul><li>Most active funds tout their ability to discriminate between good and poor quality management, and accordingly weight their portfolios towards businesses that they consider to be well managed.&nbsp; In the past decade, portfolio managers have also boasted of their ability to identify and invest in companies that score strongly across environment, governance and social (ESG) dimensions.</li></ul><ul><li>In the second instalment of Evidente's Dissecting Quality series, I show that management quality and corporate governance matter more for complex companies, where shareholders face high monitoring costs. To that end, I develop a systematic model of complexity and agency costs for the ASX200 based on eight company specific factors.</li><li>Some of the industrials that make up the top 20 complex stocks include: Qantas, Amcor, Computershare, Seek and Brambles. Investors can use the model to integrate their assessments of company management and corporate governance. In particular, investors should avoid complex stocks that score poorly across management quality and governance practices.</li></ul>

Most active funds tout their ability to discriminate between good and poor quality management, and accordingly weight their portfolios towards businesses that they consider to be well managed.&nbsp; In the past decade, portfolio managers have also boasted of their ability to identify and invest in companies that score strongly across environment, governance and social (ESG) dimensions.In the second instalment of Evidente's Dissecting Quality series, I show that management quality and corporate governance matter more for complex companies, where shareholders face high monitoring costs. To that end, I develop a systematic model of complexity and agency costs for the ASX200 based on eight company specific factors.Some of the industrials that make up the top 20 complex stocks include: Qantas, Amcor, Computershare, Seek and Brambles. Investors can use the model to integrate their assessments of company management and corporate governance. In particular, investors should avoid complex stocks that score poorly across management quality and governance practices.

Dissecting Quality: When Does Management Quality and Corporate Governance Matter Most?

Equity Bottom-Up

iShares MSCI Australia / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>In the second weekly wrap of top-down and bottom-up developments during Australia&rsquo;s reporting season, Evidente discusses the PBOC&rsquo;s rationale for devaluing the CNY/USD rate.&nbsp; Although it confirms that the authorities remain concerned about the state of the economy, this in itself is hardly new news.&nbsp; The peg to the dollar had effectively seen the yuan appreciate by 25% on a trade weighted basis over the past four years, and the devaluation now returns the yuan to the level that prevailed in late 2014, hardly a harbinger of a currency war.&nbsp; The PBOC is right to seek to re-align the currency with the economy&rsquo;s shortfall in aggregate demand. &nbsp;</li><li>In stock news for Australia, I suggest that investors avoid Realestate.com in the short-term because APRA&rsquo;s macro-prudential policies should to lead to a slowdown in credit growth to housing investors, which has been driving housing turnover and real estate listings higher.&nbsp; And a key lesson from Ansell&rsquo;s earnings miss is that investors need to beware that other globally dispersed, complex firms could also deliver an untimely earnings torpedo.</li></ul>

In the second weekly wrap of top-down and bottom-up developments during Australia&rsquo;s reporting season, Evidente discusses the PBOC&rsquo;s rationale for devaluing the CNY/USD rate.&nbsp; Although it confirms that the authorities remain concerned about the state of the economy, this in itself is hardly new news.&nbsp; The peg to the dollar had effectively seen the yuan appreciate by 25% on a trade weighted basis over the past four years, and the devaluation now returns the yuan to the level that prevailed in late 2014, hardly a harbinger of a currency war.&nbsp; The PBOC is right to seek to re-align the currency with the economy&rsquo;s shortfall in aggregate demand. &nbsp;In stock news for Australia, I suggest that investors avoid Realestate.com in the short-term because APRA&rsquo;s macro-prudential policies should to lead to a slowdown in credit growth to housing investors, which has been driving housing turnover and real estate listings higher.&nbsp; And a key lesson from Ansell&rsquo;s earnings miss is that investors need to beware that other globally dispersed, complex firms could also deliver an untimely earnings torpedo.

Australia

Seek Limited operates an Internet website.  The Company offers online employment advertisements and online training in Australia and New Zealand, and offers online employment advertisements in the United Kingdom targeted at Australian and New Zealand job seekers.

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Dissecting Quality: When Does Management Quality and Corporate Governance Matter Most?

Most active funds tout their ability to discriminate between good and poor quality management, and accordingly weight their portfolios towards...

Sam Ferraro

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In the second weekly wrap of top-down and bottom-up developments during Australia’s reporting season, Evidente discusses the PBOC’s rationale for...

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