Found a Great Hedge Fund...But is There a Better ETF?

April 13, 2020

When you are about to invest in a fund, there is always an uncertainty whether it is the best possible fund to meet your needs. You will conduct due diligence and analyze its strategy, past performance, diversification against your current holdings and the factor exposures you want. But given the number of funds out there, how do ensure that you have the right one that checks all these boxes?

Now you can use RADiENT Similar Funds to find funds that are comparable to any fund under consideration from a universe of close to 30,000 mutual funds, ETFs and hedge funds.


We use pattern matching techniques and fund classifications to pinpoint securities that are likely to exhibit similar returns going forward, allowing you to choose those with higher historical returns, lower volatility while still maintaining the same factor exposures.


This is vastly superior to traditional methods that are focused on similar aggregate return and volatility metrics along with reported strategies. As a example, consider the two funds below – they have exactly the same return and volatility over the past 5 years but would you say they are similar?

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I like this hedge fund but is there a better and cheaper Mutual Fund or ETF?

If you are looking to invest in a global macro hedge fund for your portfolio – RADiENT allows you to find mutual fund & ETF alternatives to this fund.

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While these funds have historically outperformed the Global Macro hedge fund, they still exhibit very similar exposures to hedge fund style indices as depicted in the RADiENT Style Radar.


 

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This can also be flipped around to identify the best funds with a particular benchmark exposure  making finding funds easier and more comprehensive. For example, if you are looking at technology focused funds, simply select a technology benchmark of your choice and RADiENT Similar Funds does all the work for you! Here is a list of the best performing funds similar to the S&P 500 Information Technology benchmark

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Our algorithms work across types of funds and benchmarks so you know we have the spectrum of funds covered. So, the next time you are thinking of investing in a fund, use RADiENT Similar Funds to ensure you are not leaving returns on the table, taking on more volatility, or paying more in fees than you have to.

It's as simple as selecting your fund on RADiENT. 

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About the Author

Tarun Sharma

Tarun leads the RADiENT product development team and gets excited about applying data sciences and quantitative analysis to solve problems in finance. Tarun believes that through technology investing can be simplified, which would level the playing field for investors and improve outcomes. He started his career at Fractal and then founded an algorithmic trading firm. Tarun holds a Bachelors in Computer Science from the University of Delhi, is a CFA Charterholder, and a certified GARP Financial Risk Manager.

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