Merit’s key expertise is based on providing customized solutions for its clients to optimize their investment portfolios and reduce market risk.
The quantitative investment framework allows for a systematic approach less dependent on human analysis, judgement and decision making.
Merit’s experts specifically focus on reducing potential over-exposure or other unnecessary risks of its investor portfolios. This focus is built on clear financial quantitative indicators per asset class.
Overlay Management:
Key Facts:
- Pure quantitative, systematic approach to asset allocation
- The models show robust results for any asset class and underlying asset including investment funds and have been tested with data going back more than 100 years
- Significant outperformance to static portfolios or indices
- Based on state-of–the-art academic research
- The models developed by MERIT have been successfully used in public Investment Funds since year 2000 and in Asset Management since 2003.
Key benefits for clients:
- As instrument for portfolio control for existing portfolios
- As independent broadly diversified portfolio with underlying instruments selected by Merit and Merit´s overlay model.
- As signaller for existing single investments into stocks, bonds, commodities, investment funds or real estate investments.


