Smart Beta: Finding the Right Signals for Your Equity Investment Strategies
From factor exposures to alternative data, successful smart beta strategies utilise a variety of metrics to drive stock selection and weighting. The challenge is finding the right ones.Join us for the second event in our Buy-side Investing Webinar Series, which will look at how to leverage data and tools to help identify, develop and test investment strategies that differentiate themselves from market-cap weighted benchmarks.In this webinar you will learn how to:
- Identify factors that have delivered consistent performance
- Develop and back-test your own factors using over 2,000 fundamental data points
- Create and share interactive custom scoring models
- Investigate Bloomberg's alternative datasets for alpha generation
Speakers
Aveesh Acharya
ESG Market Specialist
Bloomberg L.P.
Aveesh Acharya is a Buyside Workflow Solutions Specialist at Bloomberg, advising clients on the most appropriate finance and technology solutions for their business needs. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Aveesh worked for over 12 years on equity derivatives structuring desks in tier 1 investment banks, primarily focusing on Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS) and Sustainability (ESG) product development. He has gained a deep knowledge of portfolio construction, multi-asset risk premia, asset allocation and regulations covering institutional buyside clients. Aveesh holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Imperial College and an MBA from London Business School.