David Turkington

State Street Associates

Senior Managing Director

United States

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Scholarly Papers (38)

1.

Decarbonizing Everything

Financial Analysts Journal, 2021, 77(3): 93-108. DOI: 10.1080/0015198X.2021.1909943.
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 07 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2022
State Street Associates, TD Securities, Harvard Business School, State Street Associates and Fidelity
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climate change, investments, factor investing, ESG, environment, climate finance, decarbonization

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Mapping Momentum

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 12 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 11 Sep 2021
Yimou Li and David Turkington
State Street Associates and State Street Associates
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Equity Investing, stock momentum, factor momentum, industry momentum, panel regression

3.

The Past as Prologue: A New Approach to Forecasting

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 6166-20
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 17 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2021
Megan Czasonis, Mark Kritzman and David Turkington
State Street Corporate, Windham Capital Management and State Street Associates
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Informativeness, Mahalanobis distance, Partial sample regression, Relevance, Similarity

4.

Advances in Factor Replication

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 5174-16
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 14 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 19 Aug 2016
Megan Czasonis, Mark Kritzman and David Turkington
State Street Corporate, Windham Capital Management and State Street Associates
Downloads 459 (136,645)

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Bayesian shrinkage, Elliptical distribution, Factor-replicating portfolio Full-scale optimization, Independent-sample error, Interval error, Kinked utility function, Non-parametric, Power utility function, Resampling, Small-sample error, Stability-adjusted return sample, Symmetrical distribution

5.

How to Predict the Performance of NBA Draft Prospects

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 6955-23
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 09 Sep 2023 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2024
State Street Corporate, Windham Capital Management, Windham Capital Management and State Street Associates
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Adjusted Fit, Asymmetry, Central Limit Theorem, CKT regression, Codependence, Fit, Gaussian Kernel, Information Theory, Informativeness, Lasso Regression, Machine Learning, Mahalanobis Distance, Model-based Algorithm, Model-free Algorithm, Nearest Neighbor Partial Sample Regression, Relevance

6.

The COVID Report Card

MIT Sloan Research Paper 6185-20
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 20 Oct 2020
Megan Czasonis, Mark Kritzman, Baykan Pamir and David Turkington
State Street Corporate, Windham Capital Management, State Street Associates and State Street Associates
Downloads 213 (309,528)

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COVID report card, Cross-sectional regression analysis, Implied deaths, New cases, Reported deaths,

7.

The Relative Importance of Fiscal and Monetary Policy: An Empirical Perspective

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 6152-20
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 24 Jul 2020
Megan Czasonis, Mark Kritzman and David Turkington
State Street Corporate, Windham Capital Management and State Street Associates
Downloads 168 (384,501)

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Fiscal policy, Mahalanobis distance, Monetary policy, Statistical similarity

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Relevance-Based Importance: A Comprehensive Measure of Variable Importance in Prediction

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 7150-24
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 20 Sep 2024 Last Revised: 12 Dec 2024
Megan Czasonis, Mark Kritzman and David Turkington
State Street Corporate, Windham Capital Management and State Street Associates
Downloads 137 (458,213)

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Adjusted Fit, Collinearity, Conditionality, Fit, Grid Prediction, Information Theory, Informativeness, Linear Regression Analysis, Machine Learning Model, Mahalanobis Distance, Marginal Importance, Relevance, Relevance-based Importance, Relevance-based Prediction, Shapley Value, Similarity, t-statistic, Total Importance

9.

A Transparent Alternative to Neural Networks with An Application to Predicting Volatility

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 7149-24
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 20 Sep 2024
Megan Czasonis, Mark Kritzman and David Turkington
State Street Corporate, Windham Capital Management and State Street Associates
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Activation Function, Adjusted Fit, Bias, Cross Validation, Epoch, Fit, Fold, Grid Prediction, Hidden Layer, Hyperparameter, Information Theory, Informativeness, Learning Rate, Linear Regression Analysis, Mahalanobis Distance, Mean Squared Error, Model Free, Neural Network, Node, Patience, Relevance, Relevance-based Prediction, Similarity

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The Economic Logic of Large Language Models

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 19 Nov 2024
Huili Song, Megan Czasonis and David Turkington
State Street Global Markets - State Street Associates, State Street Corporate and State Street Associates
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Large Language Models, LLM, GPT, Machine Learning, Ensemble Models, Model Interpretability, Economic Growth

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Replacing Cross-Validation with Interrogation: A Universal Test for Underfitting and Overfitting

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 07 May 2025
Huili Song, Megan Czasonis, David Turkington and Yin Li
State Street Global Markets - State Street Associates, State Street Corporate, State Street Associates and State Street Global Markets - State Street Associates
Downloads 68 (734,180)

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Model validation, Overfitting, Underfitting, Cross-validation, Neural network, Machine learning, Model interpretability, Agnostic model

12.

Prediction with Incomplete Information

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 7255-25
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 09 Apr 2025 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2025
Megan Czasonis, Mark Kritzman and David Turkington
State Street Corporate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and State Street Associates
Downloads 27 (1,087,473)

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Adjusted Fit, Fit, Grid Prediction, Information Theory, Informativeness, Mahalanobis Distance, Relevance, Relevance-based Prediction, Similarity

13.

The Virtue of Transparency: How to Maximize the Utility of Data without Overfitting

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 7020-24
Posted: 23 Jul 2024 Last Revised: 26 Apr 2025
Megan Czasonis, Mark Kritzman and David Turkington
State Street Corporate, Windham Capital Management and State Street Associates

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Grid Prediction, High Complexity Model, Informativeness, Mahalanobis Distance, Model Free, Moore-Penrose Pseudo Inverse, Overfitting, Partial Sample Regression, Principal Components Analysis, Regularized Regression, Relevance, Relevance-based Prediction, Ridge Regression, Ridgeless Regression, Similarity

14.

Co-Occurrence: A New Perspective on Portfolio Diversification

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 6892-23
Posted: 17 May 2023 Last Revised: 16 May 2025
William B. Kinlaw, Mark Kritzman and David Turkington
State Street Global Markets, Windham Capital Management and State Street Associates

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Autocorrelation, Co-occurrence, Divergence, Full-scale Optimization, Informativeness, Lagged Cross Correlation, Mahalanobis Distance, Mean-variance Analysis, Multi-horizon Optimal Portfolio, Parametric Optimization, Pearson Correlation, Turbulence

15.

Portfolio Construction When Regimes are Ambiguous

Kritzman, M., C. Kulasekaran and D. Turkington. 2023. "Portfolio Construction When Regimes are Ambiguous." Journal of Portfolio Management (September).
Posted: 19 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2023
Mark Kritzman, Cel Kulasekaran and David Turkington
Windham Capital Management, Windham Capital Management and State Street Associates

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Binary, Central Limit Theorem, Euclidean Distance, Fit, Gaussian Decay, Information Theory, Informativeness, Kernal Regression, Mahalanobis Distance, Mean-variance Optimization, Non-binary, Partial Sample Regression, Regime Sensitive Portfolio, Relevance, Scenario Analysis, Similarity, Z-score

16.

Relevance-based Prediction: A Transparent and Adaptive Alternative to Machine Learning

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 6794, 2022
Posted: 03 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2022
Megan Czasonis, Mark Kritzman and David Turkington
State Street Corporate, Windham Capital Management and State Street Associates

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Stock Vulnerability and Resilience

Czasonis, M., H. Song and D. Turkington. 2023 "Stock Vulnerability and Resilience." The Journal of Portfolio Management, 49 (5): 34 - 44
Posted: 23 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2023
Megan Czasonis, Huili Song and David Turkington
State Street Corporate, State Street Global Markets - State Street Associates and State Street Associates

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equities, investing, vulnerability, factors, quantitative methods, portfolios, risk

18.

Inflation Hedging: A Dynamic Approach Using Online Prices

Cavallo, A., M. Czasonis, W. Kinlaw and D. Turkington. 2023. "Inflation Hedging: A Dynamic Approach Using Online Prices." Journal of Portfolio Management (September).
Posted: 21 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2023
Harvard University - Business School (HBS), State Street Corporate, State Street Global Markets and State Street Associates

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inflation, hedging, investing

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The Determinants of Inflation

Kinlaw, W., M. Kritzman, M. Metcalfe and D. Turkington. 2023. "The Determinants of Inflation." The Journal of Investment Management, 21 (3).
Posted: 16 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2023
State Street Global Markets, Windham Capital Management, State Street Global Markets and State Street Associates

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Baum-Welch Algorithm, Euclidean Distance, Hidden Markov Model, Mahalanobis Distance, Markov process, Regime Characteristic, z-score

20.

Event Time

Journal of Portfolio Management, 4 (7): 81 - 92, 2023
Posted: 06 May 2022 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2023
Megan Czasonis, Mark Kritzman and David Turkington
State Street Corporate, Windham Capital Management and State Street Associates

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Calendar time, Co-occurrence, Event intensity, Event time, Information theory, Informativeness, Kullback-Leibler divergence, Kurtosis, Mahalanobis distance, Normal divergence, Pearson correlation, Relative entropy, z-score

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Relevance

Czasonis, M., M. Kritzman and D. Turkington. 2022. "Relevance." Journal of Investment Management 20(1).
Posted: 17 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2022
Megan Czasonis, Mark Kritzman and David Turkington
State Street Corporate, Windham Capital Management and State Street Associates

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Informativeness, Mahalanobis Distance, Partial Sample Regression, Relevance, Similarity

22.

The Myth of Diversification Reconsidered

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 6257-21
Posted: 11 Feb 2021
State Street Global Markets, Windham Capital Management, affiliation not provided to SSRN and State Street Associates

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Bivariate normal distribution, conditional correlation, correlation asymmetry, correlation profile, exceedance correlation, full scale optimization, mean variance optimization, tail dependence

23.

Investable and Interpretable Machine Learning for Equities

Posted: 23 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 13 Dec 2021
Yimou Li, Zachary Simon and David Turkington
State Street Associates, State Street Associates and State Street Associates

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Machine learning, Stocks, Equity, Factors, Neural network, Boosted machine, Random forest

24.

Portfolio Choice with Path-Dependent Preferences

Kritzman, Mark and Li, Ding and Qiu, Grace (Tiantian) and Turkington, David, Portfolio Choice with Path-Dependent Scenarios (January 15, 2021). Financial Analysts Journal, 2021, 77(1): 90–100.
Posted: 15 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 30 Mar 2021
Mark Kritzman, Ding Li, Grace (Tiantian) Qiu and David Turkington
Windham Capital Management, GIC Private Limited, GIC and State Street Associates

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Informativeness, Mahalanobis Distance, Partial Sample Regression, Relevance, Scenario Analysis, Statistical Similarity

25.

Explaining Buyout Industry Returns: New Evidence

Journal Of Investment Management (JOIM), Vol. 17 No.1, 2019
Posted: 04 Jun 2020
David Turkington
State Street Associates

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26.

The Stock-Bond Correlation

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 6108-20
Posted: 12 May 2020
Megan Czasonis, Mark Kritzman and David Turkington
State Street Corporate, Windham Capital Management and State Street Associates

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Autocorrelation, Henriksson-Merton test, Informativeness, Lagged cross-correlation, Mahalanobis distance, Partial sample regression, Relevance, Single period correlation, Statistical similarity

27.

Private Equity and the Leverage Myth

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 5912-20
Posted: 20 Feb 2020
State Street Corporate, State Street Global Markets, Windham Capital Management and State Street Associates

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Fundamental risk, Leverage multiple, Leverage myth, Mean-variance analysis

28.

A New Index of the Business Cycle

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 5908-20
Posted: 21 Jan 2020
William B. Kinlaw, Mark Kritzman and David Turkington
State Street Global Markets, Windham Capital Management and State Street Associates

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Business cycle, Coincident indicator, Conference Board, KKT Index, Lagging indicator, Leading indicator, Mahalanobis distance, NBER, Robust growth, Recession, Statistical similarity, Yield curve

29.

Partial Sample Regressions

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 5894-19
Posted: 20 Nov 2019
Megan Czasonis, Mark Kritzman and David Turkington
State Street Corporate, Windham Capital Management and State Street Associates

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Event-driven observations, Informativeness, Kernel smoothing, Mahalanobis distance, Multivariate similarity, Nadaraya-Watson kernel regression, Ordinary Least Squares, Regression analysis, Relevance, Relevance-weighted average

30.

Beyond the Black Box: An Intuitive Approach to Investment Prediction with Machine Learning

Posted: 05 Nov 2019
Yimou Li, David Turkington and Alireza Yazdani
State Street Associates, State Street Associates and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Interpretable Machine Learning, Foreign Exchange, Investment, Prediction, Neural Network, Random Forest, Gradient Boosting Machine

31.

Decarbonization Factors

The Journal of Impact and ESG Investing Fall 2021, 2 (1) 47-73; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3905/jesg.2021.1.026
Posted: 14 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2022
State Street Associates, TD Securities, Harvard Business School, State Street Associates and Fidelity

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climate change, ESG, investment management, factor investing, investor behavior

32.

The Divergence of High- and Low-Frequency Estimation: Implications for Performance Measurement

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 5110-14, https://doi.org/10.3905/jpm.2015.41.3.014
Posted: 21 May 2019
William B. Kinlaw, Mark Kritzman and David Turkington
State Street Global Markets, Windham Capital Management and State Street Associates

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Auto-correlation, Cross-correlation, Excess dispersion, High-frequency estimation, Information ratio, Low-frequency estimation, Risk parity, Security market line, Sharpe ratio, Square root of time, Tracking error

33.

Enhanced Scenario Analysis

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 5774-19
Posted: 20 May 2019 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2020
Megan Czasonis, Mark Kritzman, Baykan Pamir and David Turkington
State Street Corporate, Windham Capital Management, State Street Associates and State Street Associates

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Covariance matrix, Economic scenarios, Euclidean distance, Financial turbulence, Gradient descent, Mahalanobis distance, Mean reversion, Mean-variance analysis, Multivariate normal distribution, Persistence, Scale independent, Scenario analysis

34.

The Shadow Price of Liquidity in Asset Allocation - A Case Study

Journal of Investment Management (JOIM), Second Quarter 2014
Posted: 15 Nov 2014
Independent, Independent, Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), Independent and State Street Associates

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Illiquidity risk, alternative investments, portfolio optimization, asset allocation, portfolio construction

35.

The Divergence of the High and Low Frequency Estimation: Causes and Consequences

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 5087-14
Posted: 14 May 2014
William B. Kinlaw, Mark Kritzman and David Turkington
State Street Global Markets, Windham Capital Management and State Street Associates

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Auto-correlation, Comparative statics, Cross-correlation, Excess dispersion, High-frequency estimation, Independent and identically distributed, Iso-expected return curve, Low-frequency estimation, Tracking error, Triannualized, Variance ratio

36.

Correlation Surprise

Posted: 21 Aug 2012
William B. Kinlaw and David Turkington
State Street Global Markets and State Street Associates

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Correlation surprise, turbulence

Regime Shifts: Implications for Dynamic Strategies

Financial Analysts Journal, Vol. 68, No. 3, 2012
Posted: 23 May 2012
Mark Kritzman, Sebastien Page and David Turkington
Windham Capital Management, Pimco and State Street Associates

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Regime Shifts: Implications for Dynamic Strategies

Financial Analysts Journal, Vol. 68, No. 3, 2012
Posted: 26 May 2012
Mark Kritzman, Sebastien Page and David Turkington
Windham Capital Management, State Street Associates and State Street Associates

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Portfolio Management, Portfolio Construction and Revision, Risk Management, Risk Management, Portfolio Risk Management

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In Defense of Optimization: The Fallacy of 1/N

Financial Analysts Journal, Vol. 66, No. 2, 2010
Posted: 19 Apr 2010
Mark Kritzman, Sebastien Page and David Turkington
Windham Capital Management, State Street Associates and State Street Associates

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Performance Measurement and Evaluation, Performance Attribution, Portfolio Management, Asset Allocation