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Factor Based Thematic Investing

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Attributes of a stock that are identified as a potential drivers of returns.

Factors affect the performance of a stock. A basketball coach may consider factors such as “height” and “speed” when selecting players. Similarly, an investor might consider “reversion” and “value” as factors for a stock.

A systematic investment approach to evaluate firms based on certain attributes.

Firms are assessed on how attractive they are based on one or more factors/attributes, and then ranked against other firms. Higher ranked firms may indicate a greater opportunity to outperform the market.

It starts with a theory on how an attribute may affect future returns of a stock.

For example: “Shares that are cheap relative to some measure of fundamental value can outperform those that are pricier.” Researchers then analyse data to form an investment view based on the theory. The performance of the factor is evaluated for potential usefulness and significance.

Crea8’s founder and advisors have strong links with Cambridge University and years of experience, including publications at peer reviewed journals, available here.

We tap on these Cambridge backed research and industry experience to derive factors for you to invest in.

Factors are identified using historical data and may not be effective in the future.

As the predictability of factors may decay over time, factor potency might differ from what it used to be. Hence, it might not be as profitable as what the backtest has found.

We combine factors with themes to outperform the market.

Our factor based investing service allows you to overlay factors on thematic portfolios to profit from the predictability and sustainability of multi-year trends. You can adopt our pre-selected factors or create your own combinations.

Check out our white papers here.

Smart money and institutional investors have been using factor based investing for years.

It is a quantitative approach to portfolio construction based on powerful algorithms, advanced technology and robust research.

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Global funds such as the USD 1 trillion Norwegian Government Pension Fund (Global) have adopted factor based investing to portfolio construction.

With Crea8, you can now build your own portfolio systematically.

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Got Your Own Ideas To Implement?

Build your portfolio with our optimiser in six steps

Define your overall strategy

Set your investment amount and rebalancing frequency.

Set your investment universe

Select your investment market, sector, themes, company fundamentals and more from about 2,500 stocks from 20 countries.

Design your investment style

Choose one of our pre-set balanced, value, growth or dividend styles or design it entirely.

Specify your risk preference

Select one of the pre-defined risk preferences or configure your risk parameters along various risks dimensions.

Backtest before investing

Once you’ve built your portfolio, backtest and check how it would have done in the past before committing capital.

Automate trade routing and portfolio monitoring

Enjoy straight through order processing and whether the market moves in your favour or not, we let you set your take profit or cut loss limits.

Do you always lose money on a particular stock?

Do not worry. We allow you to exclude that ‘bad luck’ stock from your portfolio so that you are at ease with your strategy.

Run my profits and cut my losses

Want to run your profits or cut your losses?

Under normal market conditions, our smart portfolio monitoring system allows you to specify a limit on maximum possible loss, without setting a limit on the possible gain. Your stop loss limit will move with the market price and continually recalculates the stop trigger price at a fixed amount below the market price. As the market price rises, both the stop loss limit price and the stop trigger price rise will be rejigged upwards. But if the stock price falls and hits the trigger price, then your stop loss order is submitted at the last calculated limit price.

Want full control to build your own thematic portfolio?

Capitalise on our financial and alternative data to filter the stocks. Construct your portfolio and set the positions' values yourself.

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