Quotient Large Cap Equity

Investment Process

Quotient evaluates a large cap universe of 1800 stocks daily to seek investment opportunities. The firm's focus is on stock selection which is driven by Quotient's insights into the valuation of companies operating within an industry. The valuation models incorporate fundamental, technical, as well as value, growth, and momentum factors from multiple categories. Quotient looks at this information both in terms of relative comparisons between companies in the same industry and trends over time. Quotient builds a unique model for each industry based on the price drivers that are predictive in that industry. In total, there is a unique valuation model for each of the 56 industries that a the firm follows. The combination of these industry models is designed to produce high risk-adjusted returns.

Portfolio Construction and Risk Control

The important factors for the portfolio construction process include company valuations, risk model forecasts, risk budgeting allocations, and transaction cost estimates.  These data are used in a portfolio construction process to arrive at the target positions. Risk Management is integral to our disciplined quantitative process. The majority of the active risk comes from individual stock selection, while industry risk and style risk account for a small portion and active market risk is close to zero. This results in a broadly diversified portfolio with no concentrated positions or bets.

STRUCTURED EQUITY

Structured Equity seeks to outperform a large cap or broad market benchmark such as the S&P 500, Russell 1000, or Russell 3000 over a full market cycle targeting an annualized excess return of 1.0% with a tracking error of 2.0%.

LARGE CAP VALUE

Large Cap Value seeks to outperform a large value benchmark over a full market cycle targeting an annualized excess return of 2.0% with a tracking error of 4.0%.

LARGE CAP GROWTH

Large Cap Growth seeks to outperform a large growth benchmark over a full market cycle targeting an annualized excess return of 2.0% with a tracking error of 4.0%.