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Mehdi Alighanbari
Executive Director, MSCI Research
About the Contributor
Mehdi Alighanbari is an Executive Director and Factor Strategist in the Core Equity Research team. The team conducts proprietary research and strategic product development to address clients’ investment problems. Previously, Mehdi served as an equity derivatives strategist at Deutsche Bank. Mehdi has a PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and also holds MScs in Electrical Engineering, Aeronautics and Astronautics and Operations Research.
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Blog posts by Mehdi Alighanbari
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Despite a recent performance lift, many still ask whether the value factor is broken. We analyze the reasons behind its underperformance and start exploring the potential of updates to value definitions and approaches to value-portfolio construction.
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Growth has sometimes been viewed as the opposite of value. By extending the concept of growth at a reasonable price, we were able to capture the growth premium without it being lost to unintended factor exposures.
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While many stocks were in the red in mid-March, as COVID-19 and oil-market shocks took hold, some were “redder” than others. We examine global markets to better understand the characteristics of the more resilient stocks during this period.
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Growth’s recent outperformance was and wasn’t an anomaly
Sep 20, 2019 Mehdi Alighanbari , Shubhangi SharmaGrowth strategies have outperformed value strategies in recent years. Is growth’s recent performance an anomaly when we look at it in a long-term context? The answer: It depends on what you mean by a growth strategy.
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What has affected minimum volatility index performance?
Jan 31, 2019 Waman Virgaonkar , Mehdi AlighanbariAs we head further into 2019, some of last year’s concerns, including market volatility and interest-rate uncertainty, continue to occupy investors’ minds. With the assumption that rates-related concerns continue and uncertainty looms in the global equity markets, the question is how minimum volatility indexes behaved in an environment dominated by these two opposing forces.
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