smart Trends Fund

The smartTrends Fund was launched in 2013 due to the profitable track record of the managed account.
The goal of the fund is to provide investors with global and sustainable investment opportunities based on robust economic research mainly from behavioral finance.

Momentum

Momentum and Cross-Sectional Momentum is the phenomenon that investments which have performed well relative to their peers on average, continue to outperform, and investments that have performed relatively poorly tend to continue to underperform.

References

• Returns to Buying Winners and Selling Losers: Implications for Stock Market Efficiency
  Jegadeesh, N., and S. Titman (1993). Journal of Finance 48 (1):65-91. PDF


• Behavioral Finance and Market Anomalies: An Academic Review
  Schoenhart, M. (2008). VDM, Saarbruecken. Amazon


• Fact, Fiction and Momentum Investing
  Asness, C. S., Frazzini, A., Israel, R., and Moskowitz T.J. (2014). JPM 40 (5):75-92. PDF

Development Economics and SRI

Development economics involves methods of promoting economic development, economic growth and structural change. Financial investors are able to contribute with a beneficial impact on the environment and society as a whole by targeting social responsible investing (SRI) and environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors.
The United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) Initiative provides best practice for incorporating ESG and SRI issues into the investment decision making process. UNPRI