Accredited SAQ CWMA recertification training amounting to 1 hour of study.
Topic: Asset Classes
Subtopic: Equity
Overview
In this presentation, Jim O'Shaughnessy, chairman and chief investment officer of O'Shaughnessy Asset Management, discusses fundamental characteristics that drive stock returns in different economic cycles; distilling hundreds of possible investment factors into persistent, cohesive themes that can form the foundation building blocks for equity strategies; how factor spreads tend to expand in and around recessions; managing risks in the current environment; and more.
Learning Outcomes
- Quantitative factors driving equity performance.
- Combining factors into composites and themes.
- Effectiveness of quantitative factors on small and medium sized stocks.
- Need to test factors over long time periods.
Format
This online video can be accessed at any time, up to the calendar year end if purchased in the first half of the year; or up the subsequent calendar year end if purchased in the second half of the year.
In order to purchase this course CFA Society Switzerland members and guests must set up and login with a CFA Institute Id#.
Price
CHF 100 for non-members.
CHF 60 for members of CFA Society Switzerland.
Language
English
Speaker
Jim O’Shaughnessy
Jim O’Shaughnessy is the founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of O’Shaughnessy Asset Management (OSAM). He is ultimately responsible for OSAM’s investment strategies and is an equity owner in OSAM and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Previously, Mr. O’Shaughnessy was the director of systematic equity and a senior managing director at Bear Stearns Asset Management. He has also served as the CEO and chairman of O’Shaughnessy Capital Management (Netfolio). Mr. O’Shaughnessy is the author of four books on investing: Invest Like the Best, What Works on Wall Street, How to Retire Rich, and Predicting the Markets of Tomorrow. He has been called a “world beater” and a “statistical guru” by Barron’s, and Forbes.com included him in a series on “Legendary Investors,” along with Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett, and Peter Lynch. Mr. O’Shaughnessy was named “manager of the year” in Gordon Pape’s 2004 Buyers Guide to Mutual Funds for his management of the Royal Bank of Canada’s O’Shaughnessy Funds, and the Canadian Investment Awards named the RBC O’Shaughnessy U.S. Value Fund the “U.S. Equity Fund of the Year” two years in a row. He has a BA in economics from the University of Minnesota.