Equifax Retail Dynamic

Performance 12/31/12 - 12/31/19
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Investment Approach
About Equifax: Equifax Inc. is a consumer credit reporting agency. It collects and aggregates information on over 800 million individual consumers and more than 88 million businesses worldwide.

About the Equifax Retail Bullish Model:
The model identifies optimal conditions for entry based on retail credit information of US consumers from Equifax along with technical and fundamental factors from Neuravest Research. Machine learning models are identified and retrained in a roll forward basis to account for change in market regime. Large cap of publicly traded companies in the retail sector are covered by the model and hence the goal of the strategy is to outperform the benchmark XRT (SPDR S&P Retail) in Sharp ratio (Risk Adjusted Return). Some of the factors are listed below:
  • Delinquency Rate - Percentage of consumers who are unable to pay their debt.
  • Utilization Rate - Ratio of a consumer’s debt to their total credit limit.
  • Debt to Income - Ratio of a consumer’s debt to their annual income.
  • Inquiries TTM - Number of credit inquiries made by a consumer over the past 12 months.
  • Total Balance - The total balance across all consumers.
  • Payment Ratio - The ratio of a consumer’s monthly payment to their outstanding debt.
  • Available Credit - The difference between a consumer’s total credit limit and their outstanding debt.
  • Payment to Due - The ratio of a consumer’s monthly payment to their payment due.
  • Avg. # Accounts - Average number of accounts per consumer.
  • # New Accounts - Number of newly opened accounts.


Here’s how the backtest is generated:
  • This is a long only model based on retail sector.
  • Each day the models evaluates a set of constituents from the retail sector
  • Top 20 ranked positions are selected daily, and a maximum of 10 percent of the available cash is allocated daily towards the positions
  • Allocation limit for each equity is set to the maximum of 30 percent of the portfolio
  • Positions are held conditionally until an exit criteria is met or as long as the buy signal is active
  • Models are retrained and feature selection is performed in walk-forward fashion using a sliding window
  • The backtest considers transaction costs and slippage. See report for additional details
Performance Versus Benchmark 12/31/12 to 12/31/19
Strategy Overall Bench Overall Strategy TTM Bench TTM
Abs. Return 81.1% 60.8% 13.2% 12.5%
Rel. Return 20.2% N/A 0.7% N/A
Beta 0.32 N/A 0.11 N/A
Ann. Volatility 10.2% 18.0% 6.3% 19.6%
Sharpe 0.89 0.47 2.00 0.70
Drawdown -12.1% -26.9% -3.8% -17.5%
IR 0.04 N/A -0.06 N/A
Tracking Error 14.9% N/A 18.5% N/A
Historical Summary
1 Yr 2 Yr 3 Yr 5 Yr 10 Yr
Ann. Return 13.2% 3.4% 11.5% 8.0% N/A
Ann. Volatility 6.3% 12.0% 12.2% 10.9% N/A
Performance Attribution
Risk/Return versus benchmark
Monthly Return Comparison Trailing 12 Months
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total
Strategy 2.2% 4.5% 5.2% 1.0% -1.8% -0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% -0.5% 0.8% 1.3% 13.2%
Benchmark 7.7% 3.9% -1.6% 1.5% -12.3% 6.3% 0.5% -6.6% 7.1% 1.7% 3.5% 3.5% 12.5%
Rel. Return -5.5% 0.6% 6.8% -0.5% 10.6% -6.4% -0.5% 6.6% -7.1% -2.2% -2.7% -2.1% 0.7%
  
Perspective on Performance
The out-of-sample portfolio outperforms the benchmark XRT (SPDR S&P Retail) with a sharpe ratio of 0.89 compared to 0.47, max drawdown of -12.06% compared to -26.90%, a beta of 0.32, and Information ratio (IR) of 0.04.

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Equifax Retail Dynamic

Strategy Performance Analysis by Neuravest
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Performance Report
Performance Chart
Correlation
Beta
Exposure
  
Value At Risk
Rolling Stats
Return Attributions
Participation and Contribution
Top Participation Long
CPRI27.70
BBY27.33
KSS26.55
JWN22.76
GM22.70
Top Participation Long/Short
CPRI27.70
BBY27.33
KSS26.55
JWN22.76
GM22.70
Top Long Winners
KSS6.4%
CPRI5.5%
BBY5.3%
HRB3.5%
WYND3.4%
Top Long/Short Winners
KSS6.4%
CPRI5.5%
BBY5.3%
HRB3.5%
WYND3.4%
Top Long Losers
HAS-1.5%
KMX-0.9%
F-0.8%
AN-0.8%
TPR-0.7%
Top Long/Short Losers
HAS-1.5%
KMX-0.9%
F-0.8%
AN-0.8%
TPR-0.7%
  
Simulation Settings
Strategy Settings
Module:Event Analyzer
Date of report: 1/21/20 4:06 PM
Date Range: 12/31/12-12/31/19
Generated by: Equifax Research
Benchmark: XRT
Holding Period: Conditional Hold
Transaction Cost Modeling:
Leverage1.0
Short Borrowing3.5%
Slippage ModeSpecify a bps value
Slippage0 bps
Rebalancing:
Preferred Day N/A
Training:
Dynamic Retraining True
Retraining Schedule 3 months
Feature Groups Equity Conditions - Fundamental Long Term Rank
Retention Threshold 20%
Long/Short Long
Forecasting Period 21 days
Ranking Feature Sharpe (Desc)
Dynamic Models Timeline
Event Universe
Name Dates Whitelist Sectors
Equifax Retail Dynamic 1/1/10 - 12/31/12 S&P 500,Eqfx Retail Partial

Combination Method:
Selection Type:Union
  
Performance Metrics
Transaction Cost:
Commissions ($0.004 per share, $2.95 min per trade)$38,276
Slippage$24,880
Borrowing Costs$0
Total Transaction Costs$63,156

Transaction Analysis:
Number of Transactions 12,433
Average Trade Hold Days (Weighted) 19.00 (25.49)
% Successful Transactions (Weighted) 55.9% (66.4%)
% Hit Stop Loss 0.0%
% Hit Stop Gain 0.0%
Profit Ratio 1.45
Monthly Performance Metrics:
Days of Outperformance 49.3%
Months of Outperformance51.2%
Most Consecutive Months of Outperformance7
Most Consecutive Months of Underperformance5
Benchmark Relative Metrics:
Beta0.32
Information Ratio0.04
Annualized Tracking Error14.9%
Performance Metrics:
Portfolio Return Sharpe Sortino Alpha Ann. Volatilty Max DrawDown
Fund81.1%0.890.95 0.62 10.2% -12.1%
Benchmark60.8%0.470.69 0.00 18.0% -26.9%
Portfolio Initial Adjusted Final Adjusted Return Compound Annual Return
Fund$1,000K$1,811K$810,590 8.9%
Benchmark$1,000K$1,608K$608,347 7.0%
  
Performance Metrics By Year
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
ReturnStrategy 26.7% -2.8% 2.1% 3.7% 28.0% -4.2% 13.2%
Benchmark 42.2% 9.9% -8.9% 3.3% 4.2% -8.0% 14.1%
Winning DaysStrategy 57.7% 53.8% 52.6% 56.6% 55.4% 54.0% 57.3%
Benchmark 59.3% 53.8% 50.0% 50.6% 53.0% 54.2% 53.2%
SharpeStrategy 2.42 -0.47 0.37 0.40 2.04 -0.19 2.00
Benchmark 2.60 0.69 -0.44 0.26 0.32 -0.29 0.77
SortinoStrategy 3.36 -0.37 0.32 0.44 3.14 -0.24 1.92
Benchmark 3.87 1.00 -0.63 0.40 0.50 -0.43 1.17
Max DDStrategy -5.9% -7.3% -4.9% -6.9% -5.6% -12.1% -3.8%
Benchmark -6.9% -12.1% -16.6% -13.1% -15.4% -26.2% -17.5%
AlphaStrategy 0.06 -0.04 0.03 0.03 0.26 -0.00 0.12
Benchmark 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Ann. VolatiltyStrategy 9.9% 5.6% 6.0% 10.3% 12.5% 15.8% 6.3%
Benchmark 13.9% 15.3% 17.6% 19.5% 18.0% 21.0% 19.6%
Tracking ErrorStrategy 0.6% 0.9% 1.0% 1.1% 0.7% 1.0% 1.2%
Benchmark 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
  
Monthly Return to Benchmark By Year
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecTotal
2013 Strategy 0.2% 3.7% 4.8% 2.4% 2.9% 1.1% 4.3% -2.3% -0.8% 3.8% 1.6% 2.4% 26.7%
Benchmark 7.5% 0.1% 4.9% 4.5% 5.6% -1.0% 6.6% -4.7% 5.4% 2.6% 5.1% -0.2% 42.2%
Relative Return -7.3% 3.6% -0.1% -2.1% -2.7% 2.1% -2.3% 2.3% -6.2% 1.2% -3.5% 2.7% -15.5%
 
2014 Strategy -2.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 1.0% -0.0% -5.4% 5.5% -1.5% 0.8% 0.0% 0.1% -2.8%
Benchmark -9.4% 7.2% -1.5% -0.9% 0.3% 3.9% -3.4% 5.9% -3.5% 3.4% 6.6% 2.0% 9.9%
Relative Return 6.4% -7.2% 1.5% 0.9% 0.7% -3.9% -2.0% -0.5% 2.0% -2.5% -6.6% -1.9% -12.6%
 
2015 Strategy 1.8% 2.7% 0.2% -1.8% 0.6% -0.1% 0.0% -1.8% 0.0% 0.6% -0.2% 0.1% 2.1%
Benchmark -3.2% 6.2% 2.7% -4.3% 1.1% 1.2% -0.3% -4.9% -4.9% 3.3% -2.9% -2.6% -8.9%
Relative Return 5.0% -3.6% -2.6% 2.5% -0.5% -1.2% 0.3% 3.1% 4.9% -2.7% 2.7% 2.8% 10.9%
 
2016 Strategy 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% -1.9% 2.3% 2.9% 1.2% 0.7% -2.3% -1.0% 0.8% 1.1% 3.7%
Benchmark -5.1% 5.6% 7.0% -4.3% -4.3% -0.5% 7.5% -1.4% -1.7% -3.0% 8.2% -3.3% 3.3%
Relative Return 5.1% -5.6% -7.0% 2.4% 6.6% 3.4% -6.3% 2.1% -0.6% 2.0% -7.4% 4.4% 0.4%
 
2017 Strategy 3.6% -0.2% 0.6% 2.1% -3.1% 4.0% 0.1% 1.4% 1.7% 0.3% 10.9% 4.3% 28.0%
Benchmark -2.0% -0.6% -1.4% 1.6% -5.1% 0.4% 1.1% -4.8% 7.1% -5.5% 10.7% 3.8% 4.2%
Relative Return 5.6% 0.4% 1.9% 0.5% 2.0% 3.5% -0.9% 6.2% -5.4% 5.8% 0.1% 0.5% 23.8%
 
2018 Strategy 4.0% -2.9% -3.1% 0.8% -1.6% 6.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% -1.9% -5.5% -0.2% -4.2%
Benchmark 4.5% -4.1% -1.9% 2.0% 2.6% 5.1% 2.2% 5.0% -1.8% -7.6% -1.7% -11.2% -8.0%
Relative Return -0.5% 1.2% -1.2% -1.2% -4.2% 1.3% -2.0% -5.0% 1.8% 5.7% -3.8% 11.0% 3.8%
 
2019 Strategy 2.2% 4.5% 5.2% 1.0% -1.8% -0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% -0.5% 0.8% 1.3% 13.2%
Benchmark 7.7% 3.9% -1.6% 1.5% -12.3% 6.3% 0.5% -6.6% 7.1% 1.7% 3.5% 3.5% 14.1%
Relative Return -5.5% 0.6% 6.8% -0.5% 10.6% -6.4% -0.5% 6.6% -7.1% -2.2% -2.7% -2.1% -0.9%
 
Monthly Turnover For Strategy By Year
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecTotal
2013 55.6% 96.9% 24.5% 157.2% 119.8% 48.6% 74.0% 66.4% 31.0% 165.4% 25.1% 64.3% 928.9%
2014 70.7% 0.0% 0.0% 10.0% 50.0% 9.9% 50.2% 4.9% 4.3% 50.0% 0.0% 20.1% 270.0%
2015 103.6% 54.0% 74.8% 94.5% 69.3% 20.0% 0.0% 48.0% 0.0% 89.4% 29.9% 79.9% 663.3%
2016 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 69.6% 92.9% 30.7% 20.9% 87.7% 15.5% 111.6% 17.5% 24.2% 470.5%
2017 43.8% 2.3% 13.7% 13.5% 16.0% 18.7% 93.5% 4.0% 0.0% 100.1% 19.9% 22.7% 348.1%
2018 40.8% 16.7% 13.0% 36.9% 0.0% 1.3% 50.0% 0.0% 0.0% 120.2% 79.3% 9.6% 367.8%
2019 49.7% 0.0% 9.6% 74.8% 78.6% 19.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 134.0% 105.2% 99.9% 571.6%
  

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