Research

March 6, 2026 – AlphaRank Factor Performance represents the daily historical performance of Accelerate’s proprietary model factor portfolios. (more…)

March 4, 2026 - Portfolio management pioneer and trailblazer of the endowment-style asset allocation approach, David Swensen, once referred to private equity as "a superior form of capitalism." His praise of private equity was based on the notion that aligning ownership and control within the same group led…

February 21, 2026 - The roots of quality investing predate modern quantitative finance. In their ground-breaking 1934 book Security Analysis, investment legends Benjamin Graham and David Dodd emphasized not only cheap valuations (hence their status as the fathers of value investing), but also investment quality metrics such as…

February 6, 2026 – AlphaRank Factor Performance represents the daily historical performance of Accelerate’s proprietary model factor portfolios. (more…)

January 31, 2026 - For the past 3,000 years, the Chinese Zodiac has assigned each year an animal sign, along with its reputed attributes, to interpret cycles of fortune. Each animal of the zodiac represents personality archetypes and social energy. The 12 animals assigned to each year in…

January 19, 2026 - Several decades ago, prominent institutional investors had somewhat primitive investment portfolios, primarily focused on Government bonds. For example, in the early 1990s, the Canada Pension Plan (now one of the world's most preeminent and sophisticated institutional investors), did not allocate to private…

January 8, 2026 – AlphaRank Factor Performance represents the daily historical performance of Accelerate’s proprietary model factor portfolios. (more…)

  December 31, 2025 - After a prolonged period of hesitation defined by relatively high interest rates and a gruelling regulatory environment, the merger market reawakened decisively in 2025. Transaction volume accelerated, deal size expanded, and large strategic combinations moved from fantasy to reality. The shift…

  December 27, 2025 - “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future,” legendary New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra once quipped in a now oft-cited and paradoxical one-liner. Berra's aphorism, while both funny and sneakily profound, captures a few hard truths: Forecasts may feel precise but ultimately may rest on…

December 19, 2025 - The Dancing Plague of 1518 is a strange historical example of mass hysteria, a phenomenon in which a group of people experience similar symptoms but with no identifiable fundamental cause, that unfolded in the summer of that year in the Holy Roman Empire. In…