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Country Asset Allocation

Quantitative Country Selection Strategies in Global Factor Investing

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  • Provides an accessible and critical review of up-to-date literature on factor investing
  • Offers a practical guide to country-level asset allocation
  • Presents various portfolio performances based on described investment strategies

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Part I

  2. Part II

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About this book

This book demonstrates how quantitative country-level investment strategies can be successfully employed to manage money in international markets. It offers a range of state-of-the-art quantitative strategies, describing their theoretical bases, implementation details, and performance in over 70 countries between 1995 and 2015. 


International diversification has long been a key to stable investing. However, the increased integration and openness of global financial markets has led to rising correlations between stock market returns in particular countries, driving down the benefits of diversification and increasing the importance of country selection strategies as part of an investment process. Zaremba and Shemer explain the efficiency of quantitative investing, which captures huge amounts of data of limited scope very quickly. In the traditional approach, this data compilation is an immense undertaking, limited in scope and vulnerable to behavioral errors, but this can be overcome with the help of a new paradigm of quantitative investment at the country level. Quantitative country asset allocation can be efficiently accomplished by using wealth insights that have been generated in the academic literature, discovering many anomalies and regular patterns in asset prices. Armed with this information, investors and managers can process large amounts of data more efficiently when deciding to invest in ETFs, index funds, or futures markets.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Poznan University of Economics and Business, Poznan, Poland

    Adam Zaremba

  • AlphaBeta, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Jacob Shemer

About the authors

Adam Zaremba is Assistant Professor at the PoznaÅ„ University of Economics and Business, Poland. He is an economist, adviser, and portfolio manager for investment management companies. Zaremba has written numerous research papers on financial markets and is also an individual investor with many years' experience.


Koby (Jacob) Shemer is an experienced asset manager in the Israeli Capital Market. He is the founder of Analyst IMS, a public asset management firm, and AlphaBeta, a quantitative asset management company. During his career he has been responsible for managing portfolios of assets under management totaling billions in US dollars.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Country Asset Allocation

  • Book Subtitle: Quantitative Country Selection Strategies in Global Factor Investing

  • Authors: Adam Zaremba, Jacob Shemer

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59191-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59190-6Published: 26 October 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-93034-0Published: 06 February 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59191-3Published: 26 October 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 262

  • Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Investments and Securities, Economics, general, Econometrics, Popular Science in Economics

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