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Essays on Asset and Portfolio Management

Author : Hagen Wittig
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Asset and Portfolio Management written by Hagen Wittig and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation comprises three articles which are covering various aspects in the area of dynamic asset allocation, i.e., how to control an investor's portfolio composition over time in light of changing market conditions and various asset classes with differing return and risk profiles. In the first article, we propose the advancement of the traditional value-based rebalancing framework by setting the bandwidth weights in a non-static manner depending on current market characteristics, namely the relative price and volatility levels. The empirical analysis reveals significant excess returns in comparison to a buy and hold strategy, an idealized SAA strategy, as well as a rebalancing strategy with static bandwidths but otherwise comparable characteristics. The proposed approach also proves to be robust in various subsamples. In the second and third article, we break new ground by explicitly incorporating the risk dimension in the dynamic asset allocation process. In the second article, we present a rebalancing approach which applies the various asset classes' risk contributions to control the rebalancing process during the investment period. In strong contrast to traditional value-based rebalancing strategies, the resulting risk contribution strategies are capable of triggering rebalancing procedures based on deviations in an asset class's stand-alone volatility or correlation to the portfolio's remaining asset classes. Thus, this method lets investors closely maintain the asset classes' initial risk contributions. In the third article, we develop another approach which applies the loadings of the investor's portfolio on various key risk factors as indicators for triggering the rebalancing process. We implement the approach by monitoring the loadings on the risk factors interest rate, term spread, credit risk, equity premium, and volatility. We further define bandwidths for every risk factor loading. Once the effective loading.

Essays on Portfolio Management and Asset Pricing

Author : Guojun Wang
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ISBN 13 : 9781321364200
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Portfolio Management and Asset Pricing written by Guojun Wang and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation studies three different topics in empirical finance, specifically, portfolio management, short selling constraints and stock price informational efficiency, and one of the puzzling calendar anomalies: turn-of-the-month effect. The first chapter studies whether educational endowments earn superior returns. This is an interesting question, given the strong returns earned by some legendary endowments (e.g., Yale under the management of David Swensen), which has led to the widespread adoption of the so-called endowment model of investing. Using NACUBO/Commonfund data from 1991 to 2011, Brad M. Barber (UC Davis) and I analyze the returns earned by US educational endowments using simple style attribution models pioneered by Sharpe (1992). We document that for the average endowment, models with only public stock and bond benchmarks explain virtually all the time-series variation in returns, yield no alpha, and generate sensible factor loadings. Elite institutions perform better than public stock and bond benchmarks because of large allocations to alternative investments. We found no evidence that manager selection, market timing, and tactical asset allocation generate alpha. The second chapter uses the event of short selling ban removal in China in March, 2010 to study the relation between short selling and stock returns. First, I document that an increase in short interest predicts negative future returns, indicating that short sellers are informed about future stock returns. The long-short portfolio that buys stocks with no increase in short interest and shorts stocks with an increase in short interest earns a daily return of 0.085% (t=3.97). Second, consistent with the prediction of the Diamond and Verrecchia (1987) model, I find that the reduced short sale constraint leads to smaller price adjustments in response to earnings surprises. Specifically, I document that the price reaction to earnings announcements during the period that allows short selling is 67% lower than the price reaction during the period in which short selling is banned. In combination, these results indicate that short sellers play an important role in setting prices in financial markets. In the last chapter, Nathan George (UC Berkeley), Ethan Namvar (UC Berkeley), and I study the turn-of-the-month effect (TOM)--stocks have significantly higher returns during the period spanning from the last trading day of the previous month to the third trading day of the current month than during other trading days. Specifically, using the 13F institutional ownership data over the last three decades, we study the cross-sectional difference of the TOM effect across stocks held by different investors. First, we confirm the existence of the TOM effect in the stock market across stocks with different institutional ownership. Second, we document two patterns: (1) For stocks mainly held by individuals, the stock return out-performance during the TOM period mainly comes from the last trading day of the previous month; and (2) For stocks mainly held by institutions, the TOM effect in raw returns is evenly distributed across each day in that period, and that effect is completely explained by their exposures to the market. Furthermore, for stocks with high institutional ownership, the three days leading up to the last trading day of a month exhibit a significantly positive abnormal return compared to those of the other days. We propose that the difference in the trading behaviors of individuals and institutions may explain this dispersion.

Essays in Positive Investment Management

Author : Pascal Blanqué
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782717870763
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Essays in Positive Investment Management written by Pascal Blanqué and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author reports on situations experienced by investors which clearly break the rules and norms of accepted rationality, for example when a fall in the price of an asset is accompanied, contrary to the classical hypotheses, by a fall in demand. He outlines a general theory for the fields of choice and the marginal rates of substitution within the framework of a specific referential of the economic subject, of a psychological nature and structured by time-values, and the framework of a limited rationality. In this important and timely book, Blanqué made a powerful claim for positive investment in order to avoid fanciful illusions. He assigned it the task of understanding what is happening in today's world. Blanqué argued that the investment world contains many elements of a fairy tale and showed that a mere confrontation with reality leaves its mark on the impressive procession of theoretical, sacred cows, of established beliefs and truths. As does the confrontation with crises.

Essays on Delegated Portfolio Management and Asset Prices

Author : Yūki Satō
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Delegated Portfolio Management and Asset Prices written by Yūki Satō and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Essays on Investment and Portfolio Management of Hedge Funds

Author : Chao Zhang
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Investment and Portfolio Management of Hedge Funds written by Chao Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Essays on Market Efficiency and Delegated Portfolio Management

Author : Philipp Doering
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Market Efficiency and Delegated Portfolio Management written by Philipp Doering and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Essays in Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice

Author : Philipp Karl Illeditsch
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Download or read book Essays in Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice written by Philipp Karl Illeditsch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Ơ̐1rst essay, I decompose inƠ̐2ation risk into (i) a part that is correlated with real returns on the market portfolio and factors that determine investor0́9s preferences and investment opportunities and (ii) a residual part. I show that only the Ơ̐1rst part earns a risk premium. All nominal Treasury bonds, including the nominal money-market account, are equally exposed to the residual part except inƠ̐2ation-protected Treasury bonds, which provide a means to hedge it. Every investor should put 100% of his wealth in the market portfolio and inƠ̐2ation-protected Treasury bonds and hold a zero-investment portfolio of nominal Treasury bonds and the nominal money market account. In the second essay, I solve the dynamic asset allocation problem of Ơ̐1nite lived, constant relative risk averse investors who face inƠ̐2ation risk and can invest in cash, nominal bonds, equity, and inƠ̐2ation-protected bonds when the investment opportunityset is determined by the expected inƠ̐2ation rate. I estimate the model with nominal bond, inƠ̐2ation, and stock market data and show that if expected inƠ̐2ation increases, then investors should substitute inƠ̐2ation-protected bonds for stocks and they should borrow cash to buy long-term nominal bonds. In the lastessay, I discuss how heterogeneity in preferences among investors withexternal non-addictive habit forming preferences aƠ̐0ects the equilibrium nominal term structure of interest rates in a pure continuous time exchange economy and complete securities markets. Aggregate real consumption growth and inƠ̐2ation are exogenously speciƠ̐1ed and contain stochastic components thataƠ̐0ect their means andvolatilities. There are two classes of investors who have external habit forming preferences and diƠ̐0erent localcurvatures oftheir utility functions. The eƠ̐0ects of time varying risk aversion and diƠ̐0erent inƠ̐2ation regimes on the nominal short rate and the nominal market price of risk are explored, and simple formulas for nominal bonds, real bonds, and inƠ̐2ation risk premia that can be numerically evaluated using Monte Carlo simulation techniques are provided.

Artificial Intelligence in Asset Management

Author : Söhnke M. Bartram
Publisher : CFA Institute Research Foundation
ISBN 13 : 195292703X
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Artificial Intelligence in Asset Management written by Söhnke M. Bartram and published by CFA Institute Research Foundation. This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artificial intelligence (AI) has grown in presence in asset management and has revolutionized the sector in many ways. It has improved portfolio management, trading, and risk management practices by increasing efficiency, accuracy, and compliance. In particular, AI techniques help construct portfolios based on more accurate risk and return forecasts and more complex constraints. Trading algorithms use AI to devise novel trading signals and execute trades with lower transaction costs. AI also improves risk modeling and forecasting by generating insights from new data sources. Finally, robo-advisors owe a large part of their success to AI techniques. Yet the use of AI can also create new risks and challenges, such as those resulting from model opacity, complexity, and reliance on data integrity.

Portfolio Management under Stress

Author : Riccardo Rebonato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107048117
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Portfolio Management under Stress written by Riccardo Rebonato and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rigorous presentation of a novel methodology for asset allocation in financial portfolios under conditions of market distress.

Managing Investment Portfolios

Author : John L. Maginn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470080140
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Managing Investment Portfolios written by John L. Maginn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-03-09 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A rare blend of a well-organized, comprehensive guide to portfolio management and a deep, cutting-edge treatment of the key topics by distinguished authors who have all practiced what they preach. The subtitle, A Dynamic Process, points to the fresh, modern ideas that sparkle throughout this new edition. Just reading Peter Bernstein's thoughtful Foreword can move you forward in your thinking about this critical subject." —Martin L. Leibowitz, Morgan Stanley "Managing Investment Portfolios remains the definitive volume in explaining investment management as a process, providing organization and structure to a complex, multipart set of concepts and procedures. Anyone involved in the management of portfolios will benefit from a careful reading of this new edition." —Charles P. Jones, CFA, Edwin Gill Professor of Finance, College of Management, North Carolina State University

Essays on Portfolio Management and Corporate Investment [microform]

Author : Jiaping Qiu
Publisher : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780612847200
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Portfolio Management and Corporate Investment [microform] written by Jiaping Qiu and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 2003 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Portfolio Theory, 25 Years After

Author : Harry Markowitz
Publisher : North-Holland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Portfolio Theory, 25 Years After written by Harry Markowitz and published by North-Holland. This book was released on 1979 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Applied Asset and Risk Management

Author : Marcus Schulmerich
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 364255444X
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Applied Asset and Risk Management written by Marcus Schulmerich and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a guide to asset and risk management from a practical point of view. It is centered around two questions triggered by the global events on the stock markets since the middle of the last decade: - Why do crashes happen when in theory they should not? - How do investors deal with such crises in terms of their risk measurement and management and as a consequence, what are the implications for the chosen investment strategies? The book presents and discusses two different approaches to finance and investing, i.e., modern portfolio theory and behavioral finance, and provides an overview of stock market anomalies and historical crashes. It is intended to serve as a comprehensive introduction to asset and risk management for bachelor’s and master’s students in this field as well as for young professionals in the asset management industry. A key part of this book is the exercises to further demonstrate the concepts presented with examples and a step-by-step business case. An Excel file with the calculations and solutions for all 17 examples as well as all business case calculations can be downloaded at extras.springer.com.

Portfolio Management

Author : John Bonner
Publisher : Harriman House Limited
ISBN 13 : 0857194836
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Portfolio Management written by John Bonner and published by Harriman House Limited. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investing can seem simple, but there are an infinite number of ways to get to your goals and an infinite number of ways to fail. To sharpen your investment skills, this book guides you through the key aspects of the fund management profession, working from a macro-industry overview to the micro details of security-valuation techniques, combining the benefits of academic experience with decades of industry experience. This is something also found in the complementary online Market-Class investment simulator, where you can manage a $100m fund in a dynamic market and your decisions and those of fellow fund managers 'make the market'. A smart investor doesn't rely on luck or guts, but on learning as much as possible to make the best decisions. Portfolio Management and Market-Class, with their uniquely rich insight into the real-life workflow of portfolio management, are a vital component in any investor's education.

Essays on Delegated Portfolio Management and Optimal Contracting

Author : Raymond Chi Wai Leung
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Delegated Portfolio Management and Optimal Contracting written by Raymond Chi Wai Leung and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is a compilation of three papers that investigate the role of optimal contracting in a delegated portfolio management setting. While the study of optimal contracts in classical principal-agent setup has been extensively studied, relatively few have been studied in the context of delegated portfolio management in finance. And even delegated portfolio management papers in finance, there are still several open questions and unresolved issues that are beyond the scope of a standard principal-agent problem. In Chapter 1, I study a continuous-time principal-agent problem with drift and stochastic volatility control. While the problem with drift-only control by an agent has been extensively studied recently, very few existing papers allow an agent to endogenously influence volatility. Endogenous volatility control is particularly important in delegated portfolio management settings as volatility is one of the defining aspects of modern financial portfolio management. In Chapter 2, I study a model that encompasses dynamic agency, delegated portfolio management and asset pricing. Traditionally, the fields of ``asset pricing'' and ``corporate finance'' are studied independently of each other. However, as the modern portfolio management industry blooms in size and influence, the role of the portfolio manager and the contracts that are extended to them arguably has a role in the securities that they invest in, and hence in equilibrium, the asset pricing implications of the market overall. This paper is an attempt to bridge ``asset pricing'' and ``corporate finance'' (specifically interpreted to mean delegated portfolio management contracting) into one. In Chapter 3, I study whether a principal investor is better off delegating most of his money to a single portfolio manager (centralized delegation), as opposed to multiple portfolio managers (decentralized delegation), especially when there is the possible presence of moral hazard. With the size of the hedge fund industry and growing empirical support that moral hazard is a growing risk among hedge fund managers, it becomes imperative to understand when an investor decides to delegate his money, should it be delegated in a more centralized or decentralized fashion.

Selected Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing

Author : Christian Funke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3834998141
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Selected Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing written by Christian Funke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Funke aims at developing a better understanding of a central asset pricing issue: the stock price discovery process in capital markets. Using U.S. capital market data, he investigates the importance of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) for stock prices and examines economic links between customer and supplier firms. The empirical investigations document return predictability and show that capital markets are not perfectly efficient.

Portfolio Management

Author : Walter J. Reinhart
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781463742652
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Portfolio Management written by Walter J. Reinhart and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portfolio Management: Theory, Behavioral Aspects and Application covers behavioral aspects of investing, investment strategies including buy and sell disciplines, technical analysis, plus the more standard textbook topics of systematic portfolio management, portfolio construction and analysis, security valuation and risk analysis, asset class management, portfolio applications, derivative valuation and portfolio evaluation. The behavioral topics range from psychological factors to "deadly sins" of financial decision making. As part of the behavioral aspects a brief overview of technical analysis is presented. The first two chapters set the stage for portfolio management by presenting systematic portfolio management and behavioral aspects. These chapters help lay out the environment in which investors and portfolio managers operate. The next three chapters present modern portfolio theory, capital market theory including the capital asset pricing model, and arbitrage pricing theory. We then move into valuation of two primary asset classes, debt instruments and equity. This valuation portion assumes the reader has successfully completed an investments course, and because the material covered varies between courses it is in placed in the text for review so students have a common base to work from. Next we turn our attention to strategies and managing portfolios for several chapters. Disciplined stock selection and tactics are presented in Chapter 9, while the most important decisions relating to portfolio management, namely asset allocation, is discussed in Chapter 10. Styles and strategies, and global investing are then presented in the next two chapters respectively. Chapter 13 presents strategies for managing bond portfolios. Our attention turns to derivative securities in Chapters 14 and 15. The book concludes with a critical element of portfolio management, namely evaluation of performance. The main body of the book is divided into sections and contains the chapter material in an outline form with essays to expand on the material. For the more advanced reader the outline will provide a synopsis and allow the reader to decide if they need to refresh their knowledge or if they need to expand their knowledge by reading the essay portions. For the less advanced reader the outline provides a summary of the material and the essay portions fill in the details for a fuller understanding of the topics presented. Each section has a brief overview of the material contained in the section. For each chapter thought questions and, if applicable, old CFA questions are provided for student learning. Additionally, multiple choice questions are presented at the end of the chapters so students can check their understanding of basic topics. Answers to the multi-guess questions are provided in Appendix A. The CFA material is reprinted with the kind permission of the CFA Institute (formally the Association for Investment Management and Research) Charlottesville, VA. All rights reserved. Some of the CFA questions cover material not directly covered in the book, hence the student needs to expand their learning experience and explore the Internet or think and realize it is an extension of what is covered in the text. In fact, the student is strongly encouraged to explore the Internet to further enhance the chapter material. If you are interested in adopting this book for your portfolio management or investments course (it has been used in both) please contact: Dr. Walter J. Reinhart Loyola University Graduate Center 2034 Greenspring Drive Timonium, MD 21093 TEL: 410.617.1555 for a complimentary copy. When you adopt the book, suggested answers to the end of chapter questions and problems will be provided. However, please note the text does NOT provide detailed mathematical examples, instead the book is designed to allow the professor of the course to go into the quantitative details suited to their students.