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Implementing Value and Momentum Strategies in Credit Portfolios

Simon Polbennikov, Albert Desclée and Mathieu Dubois
The Journal of Portfolio Management Quantitative Special Issue 2021, 47 (2) 82-98; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3905/jpm.2020.1.190
Simon Polbennikov
is a managing director in the Quantitative Portfolio Strategy Group at Barclays in London, UK
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Albert Desclée
is a managing director in the Quantitative Portfolio Strategy Group at Barclays in London, UK
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Mathieu Dubois
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Abstract

Implementing quantitative signals in a corporate bond portfolio can be challenging owing to high transaction costs, large variations of liquidity across individual bonds, and the requirement to follow a benchmark index. The authors design realistic simulations that illustrate the performance and characteristics of quantitatively managed portfolios of liquid corporate bonds with attractive value and momentum characteristics. They show how to implement a turnover budget to explicitly control rebalancing volumes. Such realistic strategy portfolios have significantly outperformed the Bloomberg Barclays US Corporate Bond Index after transaction costs, with information ratios above 1 since 2007. The results of this study support the case for style factor investing in credit.

TOPICS: Performance measurement, portfolio construction, simulations, style investing

Key Findings

  • ▪ Relative value and equity momentum styles can be successfully implemented in corporate bond portfolios net of transaction costs.

  • ▪ We explain how to overcome challenges related to identifying liquid tradable securities with attractive value and momentum characteristics, keeping transaction costs in check, and following a benchmark index at the same time.

  • ▪ Index-tracking portfolios that match key exposures of the US Corporate index, but also overweight bonds with attractive value and momentum characteristics, significantly outperformed the benchmark index after transaction costs, with information ratios above 1 since 2007.

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Implementing Value and Momentum Strategies in Credit Portfolios
Simon Polbennikov, Albert Desclée, Mathieu Dubois
The Journal of Portfolio Management Dec 2020, 47 (2) 82-98; DOI: 10.3905/jpm.2020.1.190

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Implementing Value and Momentum Strategies in Credit Portfolios
Simon Polbennikov, Albert Desclée, Mathieu Dubois
The Journal of Portfolio Management Dec 2020, 47 (2) 82-98; DOI: 10.3905/jpm.2020.1.190
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    • RELATIVE VALUE AND EQUITY MOMENTUM STRATEGIES IN CREDIT
    • COMBINING RELATIVE VALUE AND EQUITY MOMENTUM SIGNALS
    • MEASURING CORPORTE BOND LIQUIDITY AND TRANSACTION COSTS
    • STRATEGY PORTFOLIOS WITH TURNOVER BUDGETS
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