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Driving Alpha

Making a Difference

Signal’s strategy and offerings are based on the recognition that superior fundamental research is necessary, but not sufficient, to produce truly outstanding investment results. Signal helps clients generate incremental alpha by filling the gaps that fundamentals alone fail to reach.

Making a Difference

Why Work With Us

Regime Analysis

Signal’s mosaic approach to regime analysis has become Wall Street’s go-to source for industry-level Risk-On/Off recommendations.

Industry Tilts and Weighting Recommendations

Signal helps clients make informed industry-level Risk-On/Off tilts and weighting decisions.

Trade Timing

Signal’s proprietary quantitatively driven Technical model helps clients make alpha generating timing decisions.

Crowding Analysis

Signal’s proprietary Crowding Model identifies securities that are more likely to be over-owned by sector-focused Hedge Fund managers.

Unwind Identification

By analyzing the performance of Signal’s crowded securities, Signal is able to offer insight into unwind activity.

Pairing Recommendations

Signal offers superior pairing recommendations by considering Signal’s regime and crowding factors and characteristics.

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About Us

Founded in 2011 by Stephen Davis, Signal is an independent analytics firm dedicated to providing institutional equity investors with actionable insights based on Signal’s suite of proven proprietary alpha models.

Signal understands the needs of institutional investors because the team has been there. Each member of the Signal development team has multiple decades of institutional buy-side experience.

Signal has become Wall Street’s go to source for Timing, Crowding/Unwind, and Macro Regime (Risk-On/Off) analysis, helping institutional equity investors better understand positioning and regime trends at the market, sector, industry, and security level. Signal is proud to count the world’s largest institutional investors among its clients, including many of the largest hedge fund managers in the U.S. and U.K.

A few words

About Us

Founded in 2011 by Stephen Davis, Signal is an independent analytics firm dedicated to providing institutional equity investors with actionable insights based on Signal’s suite of proven proprietary alpha models.

Signal understands the needs of institutional investors because the team has been there. Each member of the Signal development team has multiple decades of institutional buy-side experience.

Signal has become Wall Street’s go to source for Timing, Crowding/Unwind, and Macro Regime (Risk-On/Off) analysis, helping institutional equity investors better understand positioning and regime trends at the market, sector, industry, and security level. Signal is proud to count the world’s largest institutional investors among its clients, including many of the largest hedge fund managers in the U.S. and U.K.