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Minsky vs. Machine: New Foundations for Quant-Macro Investing

Joseph Simonian and Chenwei Wu
The Journal of Financial Data Science Spring 2019, jfds.2019.1.004; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3905/jfds.2019.1.004
Joseph Simonian
is the director of quantitative research at Natixis Investment Managers in Boston, MA
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Systematic macro investors’ use of the regime-switching models that have been developed in academia over the last several decades is infrequent at best and, when used, generally tangential to their core investment process. The roots of this less-than-enthusiastic uptake can be found in two familiar sources: models that possess an overly complex formal structure and poor predictive ability. As a remedy to the current state of affairs, the authors present a new foundation for regime-based investing, one based on spectral clustering, a graph theoretic approach to classifying data. Drawing inspiration from the work of Hyman Minsky and John Geanakoplos, the authors present a macro framework that uses measures of growth, inflation, and leverage to define regimes and drive portfolio decisions. To the latter end, the authors show how the framework can be used to build portfolios using information about regimes as defined, to outperform a no-information equal-weight portfolio both out-of-sample and in bootstrapped and cross-validated simulations. The authors thus show that spectral clustering can provide both an elegant mathematical description of the leverage cycle and a robust foundation for quant-macro investing.

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Joseph Simonian, Chenwei Wu
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Minsky vs. Machine: New Foundations for Quant-Macro Investing
Joseph Simonian, Chenwei Wu
The Journal of Financial Data Science Mar 2019, jfds.2019.1.004; DOI: 10.3905/jfds.2019.1.004
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    • MINSKY, MARKETS, AND THE LEVERAGE CYCLE
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