Strategies focused on fast-growing, high-risk, high-reward markets.
This paper shows that large language models (LLMs) can predict stock returns in China using public news. The best models—especially an ensemble of multiple LLMs and Baichuan—produce daily trading signals that generate up to 91% annualized alpha, proving highly effective in emerging markets.
This paper shows ChatGPT can act as a robo-advisor, generating stock picks from news that yield up to 3% monthly alpha, especially on political and policy-related events. Its performance beats traditional textual analysis in both U.S. and Chinese markets.
When the euro gets stronger, European investors tend to sell government bonds from emerging countries if those bonds are in the local currencies of those countries. They do this because a stronger euro means those investments are now worth less to them, even if countries themselves aren’t riskier.
This paper develops the Policy Change Index (PCI) for China, a machine learning-based, language-free signal that predicts upcoming policy shifts by analyzing the page placement of articles in the People’s Daily. The PCI successfully anticipates major Chinese policy events.
This paper shows that investors with limited ability to borrow tend to chase high-risk assets. As a result, low-risk (low-beta) assets offer better risk-adjusted returns. A strategy that goes long low-beta assets and shorts high-beta ones—called “Betting Against Beta”—consistently beats the market.