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.

Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Evidente has updated the performance and ranking of its proprietary systematic model of earnings certainty or predictability and found that stocks that ranked strongly at the end of 2014 (based on real time information) strongly out-performed the worst ranked stocks over the course of 2015, with the long-short return ranging from 10%-30%.  The performance is impressive because the model does not include measures of dividends, growth, momentum or valuations.</li><li>Companies attain a high score for earnings predictability for the following attributes: low volatility, low beta, low dispersion, low EPS volatility and those that have been listed for a long time.  Firm vintage is designed to capture the dynamics around investor learning: investors typically assign higher standard errors to the growth prospects for newly listed firms.  The rationale for firm vintage draws on the work of Lubos Pastor at the University of Chicago.</li><li>I demonstrate that Evidente's model does a remarkably good job of assessing and summarising the key risk attributes of stocks.  The top 5 ranked stocks for 2016 are: AMC, ASX, BXB, RHC and SHL, while the worst ranked stocks include: MYR, BRS, SPO, GMA and SVW. </li></ul>

Evidente has updated the performance and ranking of its proprietary systematic model of earnings certainty or predictability and found that stocks that ranked strongly at the end of 2014 (based on real time information) strongly out-performed the worst ranked stocks over the course of 2015, with the long-short return ranging from 10%-30%.  The performance is impressive because the model does not include measures of dividends, growth, momentum or valuations.Companies attain a high score for earnings predictability for the following attributes: low volatility, low beta, low dispersion, low EPS volatility and those that have been listed for a long time.  Firm vintage is designed to capture the dynamics around investor learning: investors typically assign higher standard errors to the growth prospects for newly listed firms.  The rationale for firm vintage draws on the work of Lubos Pastor at the University of Chicago.I demonstrate that Evidente's model does a remarkably good job of assessing and summarising the key risk attributes of stocks.  The top 5 ranked stocks for 2016 are: AMC, ASX, BXB, RHC and SHL, while the worst ranked stocks include: MYR, BRS, SPO, GMA and SVW. 

Earnings Certainty Continues to Deliver Strong Returns

Amcor Limited

Earnings Certainty Continues to Deliver Strong Returns