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# Portfolio Performance - Mar'26
- URL: https://www.huntingalphas.com/portfolio-performance-mar26/
- Published: 2026-04-04T11:57:56.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-04T14:10:48.000Z
- Description: Mar'26: ~8% annualized alpha, Sortino 1.8, IR 0.75, rare factor exposures style, low drawdowns. Strategy scalable to >$100M AUM. Live real-money.
- Author: Vish (Hunting Alphas)
- Tags: Performance

*Portfolio context is detailed in the* [*About*](https://www.huntingalphas.com/about) *page.*

*Performance metrics here are for the 1 Jul'24 to 31 Mar'26 time period.*

## Summary

### Monthly performance dashboard

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/53/51536a0e-598d-4a2b-84c8-fde2ea3bb5a0/content/images/2026/04/image.png)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/53/51536a0e-598d-4a2b-84c8-fde2ea3bb5a0/content/images/2026/04/image-1.png)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/53/51536a0e-598d-4a2b-84c8-fde2ea3bb5a0/content/images/2026/04/image-2.png)

### Strong risk-adjusted performance metrics

- Daily/weekly Sharpe: 0.73/1.00, assuming 0% risk-free or hurdle rate.
- Daily/weekly Sortino: 0.90/1.79, assuming 0% risk-free or hurdle rate.
- Daily/weekly annualized alpha: of 7%/8% vs SPY AUD benchmark.

*Value addition measures are high.*

### Results are based on a very large, diverse sample size

- Almost 1,300 tickers bet on over 21 months.
- Return contributions are broad-based across market caps, sectors and industries.
- Aggregate returns profile is made up of many contributions of small positions rather than a reliance on a few concentrated winners.

*Diverse sources of returns reduces dependency on favorable market regimes.*

### Minimal catastrophic tail risk and scalable

- Long-only, zero leverage strategy investing in global stocks and related traditional ETFs without any inverse, ETN or other derivative exposures in mostly Developed markets.
- Positive skew in both overall portfolio and ticker-level return, contribution to return distributions.
- Low max drawdowns, low beta, upside to downside capture ratio of 1.5-2.5x.
- Market impact analysis suggests this portfolio is largely scalable to >USD 100M AUM.

*The strategy is suitable to manage a large amount of capital in order to grow wealth over a long period of time with dramatically reduced volatility along the way.*

## Performance vs SPY AUD, Developed 5 Factor + Developed Momentum Factors

### Portfolio (AUD) vs SPY AUD

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/53/51536a0e-598d-4a2b-84c8-fde2ea3bb5a0/content/images/2026/04/image-4.png)

*These metrics are computed using an annualized AUD risk-free/hurdle rate of 0%, which is an industry standard for comparability purposes.*

- Much lower max drawdowns vs SPY AUD benchmark
- \>5% annualized alpha vs SPY AUD benchmark
- \>1.5x upside-to-downside capture, indicating a highly convex (asymmetric) return profile vs SPY AUD.

### Portfolio vs [Developed 5 Factor](https://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/faculty/ken.french/Data%5FLibrary/f-f%5F5developed.html?ref=huntingalphas.com) \+ [Developed Momentum](https://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/faculty/ken.french/Data%5FLibrary/f-f%5F5developed.html?ref=huntingalphas.com) Factor Regressions

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/53/51536a0e-598d-4a2b-84c8-fde2ea3bb5a0/content/images/2026/04/image-10.png)

- Positive but not statistically significant (p-val > 0.1) alpha for now.
- Low-beta strategy (statistical significance across daily and weekly regressions)
- Negative coefficient tilt to all Developed 5 Factor + Developed Momentum Factors (statistical significance for Profitability factor across all regressions, Size and Momentum factor in daily and weekly regressions, Value and Investment factor in daily regressions)
- Combination of negative coefficient tilt to Fama French Developed 5 Factors + Developed Momentum factors and low-beta makes for a rare factor exposure style

## Contribution to Return (CTR) Analytics

### Overview

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/53/51536a0e-598d-4a2b-84c8-fde2ea3bb5a0/content/images/2026/04/image-16.png)

- Most of the CTR comes from active satellite picks, not core index exposure positions
- A huge, almost 1,300 sample size of ticker bets increases robustness of the strategy's performance stats

### CTR, Return and Average Weight Distributions

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/53/51536a0e-598d-4a2b-84c8-fde2ea3bb5a0/content/images/2026/04/image-12.png)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/53/51536a0e-598d-4a2b-84c8-fde2ea3bb5a0/content/images/2026/04/image-13.png)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/53/51536a0e-598d-4a2b-84c8-fde2ea3bb5a0/content/images/2026/04/image-14.png)

- Histograms show that return contributions have a clear positive skew and is comprised of the aggregate of many small bets rather than a small number of outsized winners.

### Sector and Industry CTR Drivers

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/53/51536a0e-598d-4a2b-84c8-fde2ea3bb5a0/content/images/2026/04/image-18.png)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/53/51536a0e-598d-4a2b-84c8-fde2ea3bb5a0/content/images/2026/04/image-19.png)

- CTRs of [satellite picks](https://www.huntingalphas.com/about/) are broad-based across sectors and industries

### Analysis of scalability; MCAP and Market Impact CTRs

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/53/51536a0e-598d-4a2b-84c8-fde2ea3bb5a0/content/images/2026/04/image-11.png)

- Minimal return contributions from smallcaps, microcaps and nanocaps.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/53/51536a0e-598d-4a2b-84c8-fde2ea3bb5a0/content/images/2026/04/image-23.png)

- Under conservative average daily traded value (ADV) assumptions,  
91% of return contributions are scalable to USD 100M AUM.

### Top Contributors and Detractors

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/53/51536a0e-598d-4a2b-84c8-fde2ea3bb5a0/content/images/2026/04/image-15.png)

- Top contributors are meaningfully larger than top detractors, showing positive  
return skew.
- Grey-highlighted names are core index positions.
- Peach-highlighted names are FX movements.
- Blue-highlighted name represents a rare, high conviction satellite position.
- Pink-highlighted name is a rare mistake of investing in a highly illiquid stock.

## Active Stock Pick Selection Analytics

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/53/51536a0e-598d-4a2b-84c8-fde2ea3bb5a0/content/images/2026/04/image-22.png)

- Overall win rate averages are in the low 40%, but average win is almost 2x average loss, leading to a profit factor of 1.4-1.6.
- Mar'26 was the worst month so far in terms of win rate and the 2nd worst in terms of profit factor.

## More Details on Portfolio Performance Profile

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/53/51536a0e-598d-4a2b-84c8-fde2ea3bb5a0/content/images/2026/04/image-5.png)

- Sustained outperformance

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/53/51536a0e-598d-4a2b-84c8-fde2ea3bb5a0/content/images/2026/04/image-6.png)

- Positive active return accumulation vs SPY AUD

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/53/51536a0e-598d-4a2b-84c8-fde2ea3bb5a0/content/images/2026/04/image-7.png)

- High-single digit annualized alpha

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/53/51536a0e-598d-4a2b-84c8-fde2ea3bb5a0/content/images/2026/04/image-8.png)

- Much lower drawdown profile vs benchmark

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/53/51536a0e-598d-4a2b-84c8-fde2ea3bb5a0/content/images/2026/04/image-9.png)

- Lag vs SPY AUD benchmark has been contained to <1000bps

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## Takeaway

These are strong performance metrics by any institutional standard.

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#### Disclosures and Disclaimers

**Past performance ≠ future results. Not investment advice. See* [**full Disclaimer*](https://www.huntingalphas.com/disclaimer/)**.*