Money managers have lavished cash on a panoply of strategies, only to get trounced by the S&P 500.
The rules-based allocation method dissects shares based on their traits.
Their bets on trends in Japanese stocks, AI darlings and cocoa have paid off.
Nervous money managers are sitting on some of their highest exposures to stocks and credit in a decade.
With stocks and bonds moving increasingly in tandem, investors have been forced elsewhere for protection.
The firm's Managed Futures Full Volatility Strategy returned 17.4% in the first quarter.
Trend-following quants are rallying back on Wall Street for their best start to a year since 2008.
Shorting futures on the Cboe Volatility Index has proven itself to be a slam-dunk trade.
The MAX S&P 500 4X Leveraged ETNs promise to quadruple the daily returns of the benchmark index.
But Jeremy Grantham's largest fund is still betting on tech giants such as Microsoft and Apple.