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The greater the deviation tolerance, the lower the turnover will tend to be.",[],{"nodeType":896,"data":1025,"key":898},{},{"nodeType":896,"data":1027,"key":901},{},{"nodeType":17,"data":1029,"value":1030,"marks":1031},{},"In addition to these general techniques, which are widely used by investment managers and index providers, there are also more strategy-specific ways to reduce turnover. Empirical studies carried out on the short-term reversal phenomenon, which has been extensively documented in the academic literature, provide a good illustration of this.",[],{"nodeType":896,"data":1033,"key":908},{},{"nodeType":896,"data":1035,"key":911},{},{"nodeType":17,"data":1037,"value":1038,"marks":1039},{},"Short-term reversal strategies exploit the fact that stocks that experience huge gains or losses during one month tend to reverse that trend the following month. However, many investors remain skeptical about this kind of approach because they involve huge turnover, as signals typically change completely every month.",[],{"nodeType":896,"data":1041,"key":918},{},{"nodeType":896,"data":1043,"key":921},{},{"nodeType":17,"data":1045,"value":1046,"marks":1047},{},"But a 2011 paper",[],{"nodeType":937,"data":1049,"content":1055},{"target":1050,"type":942,"props":1053},{"sys":1051},{"id":1052,"type":385,"linkType":853},"73nWOZkqOFhBvoM0qjgYrv",{"text":1054},"3",[],{"nodeType":17,"data":1057,"value":1058,"marks":1059},{}," by Wilma de Groot, Joop Huij and Weili Zhou, of Robeco’s Quant Equity research team, showed that the high transaction costs incurred in many these investment strategies implemented in the US stock market could largely be attributed to excessive trading in small caps. Trading costs could therefore be significantly reduced by limiting the stock universe to large caps. Similarly, comparable ways to reduce turnover can often be found for different kinds of quantitative strategies.",[],{"nodeType":896,"data":1061,"key":952},{},{"nodeType":896,"data":1063,"key":955},{},{"nodeType":17,"data":1065,"value":1066,"marks":1067},{},"All of Robeco’s quantitative strategies use portfolio-construction processes designed to keep trading low and trading costs under control, using a securities-ranking approach. This kind of method is less sensitive to changing market inputs. Moreover, for credit markets, which lack the immediacy seen in equity markets and where keeping transaction costs under control proves more challenging, we have developed a specific investment process, in which liquidity management is actually embedded in the portfolio construction process itself. This enables us to send only those orders which have a high probability of being executed.",[],{"alignment":986},{"id":72,"text":1070,"design":1148,"type":62},{"nodeType":9,"data":1071,"content":1072},{},[1073,1081],{"nodeType":1074,"data":1075,"content":1076},"heading-3",{},[1077],{"nodeType":17,"data":1078,"value":1079,"marks":1080},{},"Footnotes",[],{"nodeType":13,"data":1082,"content":1083},{},[1084,1087,1093,1097,1106,1108,1114,1117,1125,1128,1134,1137,1145],{"nodeType":17,"data":1085,"value":31,"marks":1086},{},[],{"nodeType":937,"data":1088,"content":1092},{"target":1089,"type":942,"props":1091},{"sys":1090},{"id":941,"type":385,"linkType":853},{"text":944},[],{"nodeType":17,"data":1094,"value":1095,"marks":1096},{}," ",[],{"nodeType":1098,"data":1099,"content":1101},"hyperlink",{"uri":1100},"https://www.researchaffiliates.com/en_us/publications/articles/601-the-incredible-shrinking-factor-return.html",[1102],{"nodeType":17,"data":1103,"value":1104,"marks":1105},{},"Read the related article on mutual fund returns",[],{"nodeType":896,"data":1107,"key":974},{},{"nodeType":937,"data":1109,"content":1113},{"target":1110,"type":942,"props":1112},{"sys":1111},{"id":964,"type":385,"linkType":853},{"text":966},[],{"nodeType":17,"data":1115,"value":1095,"marks":1116},{},[],{"nodeType":1098,"data":1118,"content":1120},{"uri":1119},"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2846982&download=yes",[1121],{"nodeType":17,"data":1122,"value":1123,"marks":1124},{},"Read the academic paper on the impact of rebalancing on SSRN",[],{"nodeType":896,"data":1126,"key":1127},{},"break-8-0",{"nodeType":937,"data":1129,"content":1133},{"target":1130,"type":942,"props":1132},{"sys":1131},{"id":1052,"type":385,"linkType":853},{"text":1054},[],{"nodeType":17,"data":1135,"value":1095,"marks":1136},{},[],{"nodeType":1098,"data":1138,"content":1140},{"uri":1139},"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1963131",[1141],{"nodeType":17,"data":1142,"value":1143,"marks":1144},{},"Read the latest related academic paper on SSRN",[],{"nodeType":17,"data":1146,"value":31,"marks":1147},{},[],{"alignment":986}]