Episode 7 - The Value of Rigorous Academic Research

You’re listening to The Symmetry Delta Podcast for Evidence Based Investing. My name is Casey Dylan and I am the Director of Communications at Symmetry Partners. In this episode, we continue our ongoing dialogue with Symmetry’s Chief Investment Strategist, Dr. John McDermott, and Director of Research, Dana D’Auria. We'll be discussing how they use rigorous academic research to support factor-based investment strategies.
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Factors are sources of expected returns. Symmetry searches for factors that have been shown historically to deliver higher returns over time.
Symmetry Partners' investment approach seeks enhanced returns by over weighting assets that exhibit characteristics that tend to be in accordance with one or more "factors" identified in academic research as historically associated with higher returns. Please be advised that adding these factors may not ensure increased return over a market weighted investment and may lead to under performance relative to the benchmark over the investor's time horizon.