Webcast On-Demand | Recipes for Building Smarter Strategies

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Over the last few years of market turmoil, the need to manage risks, particularly downside risk, has become increasingly important for portfolio management. Similarly, the continued shift of assets into passive and semi-passive strategies, and the ever-growing demand for ESG flavored investments have significantly impacted the way asset managers must think about portfolio construction. All of these elements underline the need for new, robust and unique approaches to be deployed in order to produce “smarter” portfolios and maintain a competitive edge.

In this increasingly competitive and turbulent environment, to build and implement a better portfolio in a systematic way that still incorporates your unique perspectives and ideas requires you to have the right ingredients. In this session, join Andrew Kovacs and Emil Margaritov as they:

Introduce the latest research and results for several unique smart beta strategies
Review how you can leverage these strategies to support your own investment needs
Examine some of the data and tools used to create these strategies

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Speakers

Andrew Kovacs

VP, Director of FactSet’s Quantitative Strategy

FactSet

Emil Margaritov

Associate Director, Research, Alpha Analytics and Optimization

FactSet

Andrew Kovacs

VP, Director of FactSet’s Quantitative Strategy | FactSet

Mr. Andrew Kovacs is a Vice President and the Director of FactSet’s Quantitative Strategy, based out of London. In this role, Andrew is responsible for understanding the market, workflows and trends associated with quantitative investing, e.g. factor research, portfolio optimization, backtesting, and Data Science and determining how to apply this understanding to FactSet’s quantitative products and solutions. Prior to assuming this role, Mr. Kovacs headed the Portfolio and Quantitative Analytics Specialist team in APAC, based out of Hong Kong, serving FactSet’s most sophisticated clients across that region. He has also led the equivalent team in EMEA serving our clients across the UK, Nordic region, Middle East, and Africa. He has launched and managed similar teams in Tokyo, Sydney, and New York and has been with FactSet for over 20 years and has been a member of the wider Analytics business for most of his career. Mr. Kovacs earned a bachelor’s degree in Finance and Information Systems from Boston College.

Emil Margaritov

Associate Director, Research, Alpha Analytics and Optimization | FactSet

Mr. Emil Margaritov is Associate Director, Research, Alpha Analytics and Optimization at FactSet. In this role, he leads the research and development of systematic smart-beta investment products across multiple asset classes. Prior to joining FactSet Emil Margaritov was a quantitative researcher at the Macro team of a multi-strategy hedge fund within the Systematic Fixed Income group at BlackRock where he was co-leading the research and development of investment strategies across fixed income, FX and asset allocation. He holds a doctoral degree in economics from Goethe University Frankfurt.