Elliott backs psychological approach

manager of jpmf europe is confident his quants methodology will deliver outperformance regardless of market conditions

By stripping out emotional attachment to stocks and exploiting irrational investor behaviour, James Elliott aims to outperform the market. With an emphasis on psychology rather than macro calls or pure bottom-up stockpicking, Elliott, head of Europe at JPMF, believes his process is a practical way of identifying attractive stocks from a universe of several thousand. By trying to remove as many human prejudices and failings as possible, Elliott believes his fund, JPMF Europe, can consistently produce scaleable top-decile performance on a five-year view. While this may sound like ...