Macro

Acadian’s systematic macro investment capabilities are designed to generate absolute returns uncorrelated with major asset classes and regardless of market conditions.

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About the Strategies

Acadian delivers macro capabilities to clients as dedicated hedge fund strategies and customized overlay implementations.

 

These strategies combine an expansive set of assets across equities, bonds, currencies, commodities, and volatility markets as well as an extensive information set of 300+ signals representing 12 distinct themes to deliver results.  Applying a data-driven approach to analyzing real-time market and fundamental information provides a distinct advantage to generating returns in dynamic markets. 

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Learn more from our thematic research on multi-asset investing, topical perspectives, and asset class-specific quick takes.

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Multi-Asset Investing

We're building on over 30 years of experience in systematic, multi-factor investing and risk assessment to provide clients with sources of absolute, uncorrelated return across a wide range of asset classes.

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What to do about Fixed Income? Fresh Perspective

In reassessing prospects for sovereign bond allocations, we show why the outlook remains bleak with respect to return generation and why the equity-risk offset that many investors have come to rely on may degrade.

Acadian MAARS: Distinguishing Features

Simple and narrow macro investing approaches forego design elements that we see as essential to capitalizing on the nuanced and constantly evolving macro relationships within and across diverse asset classes.

Environmental Themes in Commodities Investing: Systematic Macro Perspective on ESG

Acadian’s Director of Client Advisory, Seth Weingram, recently met with Mike Ponikiewicz, our lead commodities PM, to discuss how environmental and other ESG themes are influencing markets and how we invest in our systematic macro strategies. The Q&A below summarizes the conversation.