Macroeconomic Factor Rotation Between CSI 300 and ChiNext

Summary

This report develops a framework for rotating between the CSI 300 and ChiNext indices, whose valuations, market capitalizations, and industry exposures differ. It organizes potential drivers of their relative performance into factors covering real economic activity, prices, liquidity, risk appetite, index characteristics, and policy. The analysis adjusts factor frequencies and release lags, and handles outliers so signals use information available at the time.

To assess individual factors, it groups observations into signal categories and evaluates their relationship with subsequent relative returns. It uses the significance of a factor’s t-statistic as a screening measure, then selects factors for predictive and explanatory value while accounting for correlations. Equal weighting and a majority-vote rule combine signals into long-short and long-only rotation strategies. The report states historical annualized returns and Sharpe ratios for these approaches, but those figures exclude fees and trading frictions; the summary gives no detailed out-of-sample validation, and short selling may be restricted.

Key ideas

• The proposed factor library spans economic conditions, prices, liquidity, risk appetite, index traits, and policy.
• Factor timing and release delays are adjusted to limit the use of information unavailable at the time.
• Signal groups and t-statistic significance help screen factors for predictive ability.
• Final factors are chosen for predictive and explanatory value while reducing redundancy across factors.
• Equal weighting and majority voting combine factor signals into index rotation strategies.

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