Articles by Faye Kilburn
Should trend followers lower their horizons?
August’s volatility blip benefited hedge funds that use short-term trend signals
August’s volatility thunderbolt rattles risk managers
Investment firms mull changes to value-at-risk models after never-before-seen spike in volatility index
AB’s faith in ‘magnificent others’ starts to pay off
Talking heads: Hybrid quant and fundamental approach proves its mettle as mega-cap magic begins to tarnish
Pre-market trades blamed for record Vix surge
Traders rushed to cover short vol positions before the market opened on August 5
Can history resolve factor investors’ p-hacking questions?
Quants seek reassurance in the far distant past
After the selloff, competing theories on dealer gamma
Tier1 Alpha sees $74 billion short gamma catalyst; SG says rapid return to positive territory had calming effect
Gamma jitters from defined outcome funds
Tumbling equity markets could flip dealers’ exposure to gamma from long to short, leading to hedging losses
Quants see promise in DeBerta’s untangled reading
Improved language models are able to grasp context better
Collapse of correlation fails to stem zeal for dispersion
New analysis suggests immensely popular relative value strategy may have more upside
OCC readies new intraday margin requirement
Draft measure would cover all options positions including 0DTEs
Equity vol convexity selling gains momentum
Risky hedging strategy is attracting interest but can investors learn from past convexity blow-ups?
OCC introduces new intraday risk charge covering zero-day options
Revised measures “a nightmare” to implement, says one broker-dealer
How Jupiter times factors in uncertain markets
Asset manager is seeking to avoid momentum and value drawdowns
Execs can game sentiment engines, but can they fool LLMs?
Quants are firing up large language models to cut through corporate blather
As dispersion hikes in price, equity traders slice and dice
Banks tout alternative versions of relative value vol strategy, including reverse dispersion
Doubts dog equity dispersion as market grows up to five-fold
Some say $500 million vega notional – or more – in popular equity derivatives trades could be dampening volatility
Decades of history says you can beat high inflation with quality
Factors such as momentum and value generally outperform the market irrespective of inflation, but new research suggests quality stocks are best when prices are rising rapidly
Options market still searching for cause of the Vix plunge
BIS paper blames yield-enhancing structured products, but market participants are unconvinced
Zero-day hedging takes root in new asset classes
Option users move beyond equity indexes in search of cheaper, sharper hedging tools
Choppy inflation may be the worst inflation
Investors can build strategies to suit fast-rising prices, or slow-rising prices. What trips them up is the inflation foxtrot: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow
‘Brace, brace’: quants say soft landing is unlikely
Investors should prepare for sticky inflation and volatile asset prices as central banks grapple with turning rates cycle
Trend following struggles to return to vogue
Macro outlook for trend appears to be favourable, but 2023’s performance flop gives would-be investors pause for thought
Quant shop preps NLP-powered index for physical climate risk
Sharp rise in extreme weather events prompts PGIM Quant to aim for better climate-risk pricing
AllianceBernstein: fine-tuning shrinks GenAI ‘hallucinations’
Asset manager says its tweaks have improved accuracy of LLM models