Peter A. Lee and Andrew W. Lo Volume 12, Number 3, Third Quarter 2014 During the past few years, hedge fund beta replication strategies have become more common. At the same time, questions about the relevance, performance, and applicability of these strategies have been raised in response to the rapidly shifting landscape in the hedge… Read more
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Large Price Changes and Subsequent Returns
Suresh Govindaraj, Joshua Livnat, Pavel G. Savor and Chen Zhao Volume 12, Number 3, Third Quarter 2014 We investigate whether large stock price changes are associated with short-term reversals or momentum, conditional on the issuance of analyst price target or earnings forecast revisions immediately following these price changes. Our study provides evidence that prices of… Read more
BOOK REVEIW: The Undercover Economist Strikes Back – How to Run or Ruin an Economy
Volume 12, Number 3, Third Quarter 2014 The Undercover Economist Strikes Back – How to Run or Ruin an Economy Tim Harford Reviewed by Javier Estrada View PDF… Read more
SURVEYS AND CROSSOVERS: A Survey of University Endowment Management Research
Georg Cejnek, Richard Franz, Otto Randl and Neal Stoughton Volume 12, Number 3, Third Quarter 2014 There is significant interest in how university endowments manage money and perform, and an emerging strand of finance research specializes in this growing area. The purpose of this paper is to survey and review the state-of-the-art in this field… Read more
Dilution of Sector Exposures: When Does Unintended Indexing Happen?
Michael Stein and Svetlozar T. Rachev Volume 12, Number 3, Third Quarter 2014 We analyze how the inclusion of several sectors in a portfolio leads to a countering of exposures and to a replication of the index. Using a weight-based measure, we find that on a composition level unintended indexing appears to happen with only… Read more
Corporate Credit Limits for Fixed Income Portfolios
Miikka Taurén and Thomas Philips Volume 12, Number 3, Third Quarter 2014 Fixed income portfolio managers and risk managers constantly grapple with the question of how to size their corporate credit trades. Their task is made more difficult by the fact that corporate credit events are rare, particularly among Investment Grade bonds, and that tail… Read more
PRACTITIONER’S DIGEST
Volume 12, Number 2, Second Quarter 2014 View PDF… Read more
CASE STUDIES: A Solution to the Trade Deficit?
Jack L. Treynor Volume 12, Number 2, Second Quarter 2014 View PDF… Read more
BOOK REVIEW: Global Macro: Theory & Practice
Volume 12, Number 2, Second Quarter 2014 Global Macro: Theory & Practice Andrew Razanov Reviewed by Cel Kulasekaran View PDF… Read more
Does Factor Timing Explain Hedge Fund Alpha?
Hyuna Park Volume 12, Number 2, Second Quarter 2014 This paper empirically decomposes hedge fund excess return into factor timing, security selection, and risk premium. Portfolio-level tests show that security selection explains most of the excess return generated by hedge funds during 1994–2009, and the contribution of factor timing is small. Fund-level tests find significant… Read more