Doing bespoke work since 2002....., Custom Products Group

Patrick Hansen

Doing bespoke work since 2002.....

Custom Products Group

Custom Products was started 14 years ago at Lehman Brothers by current co-founder Patrick Hansen, CFA. After 3 years at Lehman, Patrick moved the team to Macquarie Securities where Simon Rigney (co-founder) joined. 3 years ago we took Custom Products independent. 

Our core strength can be summed up three words. 1- Customization - we have very little off the shelf products and most work is done on a one on one bespoke basis. 2- Speed - We pride ourselves in our ability to get requests back to the client very quickly. 3- Confidentiality - We do not redistribute. There is no grace period where we wait a week and then mass blast. Any request stops with that client.

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Japan Metropolitan Fund Investment Corporation (8953 JP)

Japan Metropolitan Fund Investment Corporation

<p>We looked back over the last 16 years and found that names that are down in the first 11 months tend to outperform in December. To calculate the information coefficient (IC) we only used names that were down in the first 11 months. That way we eliminate names that were up in the first 11 month and went down in December. We did not want those names to affect the IC calculations for this exercise.  </p><p>When we compared the first 11 month performance to December performance we got an average IC of…</p>

We looked back over the last 16 years and found that names that are down in the first 11 months tend to outperform in December. To calculate the information coefficient (IC) we only used names that were down in the first 11 months. That way we eliminate names that were up in the first 11 month and went down in December. We did not want those names to affect the IC calculations for this exercise.  When we compared the first 11 month performance to December performance we got an average IC of…

Names Down in the First 11 Months Tend to Go up in Japan.....