Volume 13, Number 2, Second Quarter 2015 Wai Mun Fong and Timothy Koh Traditional asset allocations such as the 60/40 portfolio of stocks/bonds are not as well diversified as many investors believe since almost all the portfolio’s returns are driven by the stock component. This paper examines a novel approach to strategic allocation by combining… Read more
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INSIGHTS: What Piketty Doesn’t Understand
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Alternative Currency Hedging Strategies With Known Covariances
Volume 13, Number 2, Second Quarter 2015 Wei Chen, Mark Kritzman and David Turkington Informed investors understand that they should hedge at least some of their portfolios’currency exposure, but the best strategy for doing so remains an open question. We investigate a variety of currency hedging strategies, including linear strategies, non-linear strategies, and combinations thereof… Read more
Growth Optimal Portfolio Insurance for Long-Term Investors
Volume 13, No. 2, Second Quarter, 2015 Daniel Mantilla-García We solve the growth-rate optimal multiplier of a portfolio insurance strategy in the general case with a locally risky reserve asset and stochastic state variables. The level of the optimal time-varying multiplier turns out to be lower than the standard constant multiplier of Constant Proportion Portfolio… Read more
A Structural Macro-Financial Model an Macro-Risk Management
Volume 13, Number 2, Second Quarter 2015 Thomas S. Y. Ho and Sang Bin Lee This paper provides a structural macro-financial model that can be used for the cost and benefit analysis of alternative financial regulatory regimes. The model solves for the optimal financial sector size to the real aggregate asset (household leverage) and to… Read more
Equity Indices’ Returns: Contingent Claims on GDP Stochastic Movements
Volume 13, Number 2, Second Quarter 2015 Thomas S.Y. Ho and Sang Bin Lee This paper proposes an equity index contingent claim model. The model assumes that the equity broad-based market indices’stochastic movements are contingent to macroeconomic risk factors that are derived from Ho et al.’s (HPS, 2012, 2013) and Ho and Lee’s (HL, 2015b… Read more
Price Dynamics and Liquidity of Exchange-Traded Funds
Ananth Madhavan Exchange traded funds (ETFs) have grown substantially in diversity, market significance and size in recent years. As a consequence, there is increased interest by practitioners in the pricing and trading of these investment vehicles. This paper develops a model to examine ETF price discovery and premium dynamics, and estimates the model individually for… Read more
Impact of Credit Markets on Dynamic Stochastic Real Aggregate Production
Volume 13, Number 1, First Quarter 2015 Thomas S. Y. Ho and Sang Bin Lee This paper provides a dynamic stochastic macro-financial model that describes the impact of the credit market on real production risk and provides some empirical evidence of the reasonableness of the model. Our model shows that the uncertain real sector output… Read more
Momentum, Acceleration, and Reversal
Volume 13, Number 1, First Quarter 2015 James X. Xiong and Roger G. Ibbotson This paper studies the impact of accelerated stock price increases on future performance. Accelerated stock price increases are a strong contributor to both poor future performance and a higher probability of reversals. It implies that accelerated growth is not sustainable and… Read more
Investing With Style
Volume 13, Number 1, First Quarter 2015 Clifford S. Asness, Antti Ilmanen, Ronen Israel and Tobias J. Moskowitz Investors are bombarded by a variety of investment strategies from a growing and increasingly complex financial industry, each claiming to improve returns and reduce risk. Amid the clamor, academic research has sifted through the vast landscape and… Read more