Quantitative investing: capitalizing on rapidly changing markets

Over the past decade, the global amount of information has grown at a rapid pace, and current estimates indicate that more data will be produced in the next three years than throughout all human history. In this environment, data and technology have become critical differentiators for active managers. By processing and generating insights from this data, investors can set themselves apart and secure an informational edge.

The Goldman Sachs Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS) team seeks to turn that edge into alpha. With 35+ years in systematic investing, QIS leverages Goldman Sachs’s scale and resources to capitalize on the growing volume of data using advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence.

We believe that the adaptability of quantitative investing is crucial for navigating rapidly changing market environments and achieving differentiated returns. Lessons from past market environments underscore that successful data-driven investing hinges on true diversification and the identification of unique sources of return.

Considering the rise of passive investing against a backdrop of an increasingly complex market, we believe a little active can go a long way. Enhanced index solutions aim to offer a ‘middle-ground’ approach between passive and traditional active investing that seeks to marry the key elements of both: low costs, performance predictability, and transparency, coupled with flexibility and enhanced risk management.

These solutions aim to enhance the risk/return profile of an index by maintaining the structure of the index in terms of sector and country allocations, taking a large number of small and diversified active bets and remaining within modest and systematically controlled levels of active risk. We also aim to account for sustainability-related active risk with a systematic alpha component.

Delivered through ETF wrappers, these strategies provide cost efficiency, daily transparency, and intraday liquidity—once reserved for institutions but now increasingly accessible to a wider audience.

By leveraging data-driven processes within a nimble ETF structure, Goldman Sachs Alpha Enhanced Active Equity ETFs aim to serve as versatile core portfolio building blocks, aligning with evolving investor goals.

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