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2018

0 comments / 29/10/2018 / the JOIM / Archives, Surveys and Crossovers

Risk, Reward, and Beyond: On the Behavioral Sensitivities of Mean–Variance Efficient Portfolios

Vol. 16. No. 4, 2018 Survey and Crossovers Risk, Reward, and Beyond: On the Behavioral Sensitivities of Mean–Variance Efficient  Portfolios Jürgen Vandenbroucke and Sanjiv Ranjan Das View PDF… Read more

0 comments / 25/10/2018 / the JOIM / Archives, Practitioner’s Digest

Practitioner’s Digest

Vol. 16, No. 4, 2018 Practitioner’s Digest View PDF… Read more

0 comments / 24/10/2018 / the JOIM / Archives, Book Reviews

Book Review – The End of Theory by Richard Bookstaber

Vol. 16. No.4, 2018 The End of Theory by Richard Bookstaber reviewed by Savannah Smith View PDF… Read more

0 comments / 24/10/2018 / the JOIM / Archives, Articles

Illiquidity and Factor Returns: Exploring the Intersection Between Illiquidity, Small Cap and Popular Factors

Vol. 16 No.4, 2018 Jason C. Hsu and Vivek Viswanathan Factor returns are often reported as the average of factor returns among large stocks and the factor returns among small stocks. However, factor returns among small, illiquid stocks are significantly higher than those among larger, more liquid stocks, suggesting that the factor returns in the… Read more

0 comments / 24/10/2018 / the JOIM / Archives, Articles

Automation, Intermediation and the Flash Crash

Vol. 16 No.4, 2018 Andrei Kirilenko, Albert S. Kyle, Mehrdad Samadi and Tugkan Tuzun The Flash Crash of May 6, 2010, shook the confidence of market participants and raised questions about the market structure of electronic markets. In these markets, intraday intermediation has been increasingly provided by market participants without formal obligations to do so. We… Read more

0 comments / 24/10/2018 / the JOIM / Archives, Articles

Trading Methods and Trading Costs for Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities

Vol. 16 No.4, 2018 Pengjie Gao, Paul Schultz and Zhaogang Song Investors can trade individual agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS) as specified pools (SPs), or trade them through TBA forward contracts. Sellers in the TBA market deliver the cheapest possible pool that fulfills the contracts, so they are traded on a cheapest to deliver basis. More… Read more

0 comments / 24/10/2018 / the JOIM / Archives, Articles

Time Aggregation of Sharpe Ratio A Better Extrapolation Rule

Vol. 16 No.4, 2018 Ziemowit Bednarek, Pratish Patel and Cyrus Ramezani The √T rule extrapolates a one-period Sharpe Ratio to T periods. But the rule ignores compounding. By considering compounding, Levy (1972) and others show that the Sharpe Ratio changes non-monotonically with horizon. We also theoretically and empirically show that the Sharpe Ratio term structure… Read more

0 comments / 24/10/2018 / the JOIM / Archives, Articles

Explaining the High P/E Ratios: The Message from the Gordon Model

Vol. 16 No.4, 2018 Heinz Zimmermann Are the high valuation levels of equity prices, after controlling for the low interest rate level, driven by irrational exuberance and excessive growth expectations? The Gordon model helps for a consistent interpretation of commonly used valuation ratios. Overall, P/E ratios do not seem to be caused by irrational growth… Read more

0 comments / 14/06/2018 / the JOIM / Archives, Articles

Macro-Based Parametric Asset Allocation

Vol. 16, No.3, 2018 Richard Franz Without doubt the financial returns of asset classes are interlinked with the economy. However, a direct link between financial returns and return-driving forces has not been discovered yet. Moreover, there exist many robust approaches for within-asset-class allocation but few advances have been made for between-asset-class allocation. To address these… Read more

0 comments / 14/06/2018 / the JOIM / Archives, Practitioner’s Digest

Practitioner’s Digest

Vol. 16, No.3 , 2018 Practitioner’s Digest https://joim.com/wp-content/uploads/emember/downloads/prdig_1302.pdf target=”_blank”>View PDF… Read more

0 comments / 14/06/2018 / the JOIM / Archives, Book Reviews

Book Review – Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought

Vol. 16, No.3, 2018 Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought by Andrew Lo reviewed by Savannah Smith… Read more

0 comments / 14/06/2018 / the JOIM / Archives, Surveys and Crossovers

Distributed Ledger and Blockchain Technology: Framework and Use Cases

Vol. 16, No.3, 2018 Seoyoung Kim and Atulya Sarin Since its first widespread implementation in 2009, distributed ledgers in general, and blockchain technology in particular, have rapidly become a part of the FinTech vernacular. In this paper, we provide an overview of the history of trade settlement and discuss this nascent technology that may now… Read more

0 comments / 14/06/2018 / the JOIM / Archives, Articles

Picking Through the Alpha Graveyard Correcting for Survivorship Bias in Investment Product Universes

Vol. 16, No.3, 2018 Gregory C. Allen, Ivan S. Cliff and Walter J. Meerschaert The authors propose a practical technique to correct for survivorship bias across return distributions for investment product universes. The technique is designed to work efficiently in a large-scale performance measurement environment. It uses all available data for survivors and non-survivors, corrects for bias across… Read more

0 comments / 14/06/2018 / the JOIM / Archives, Articles

Defined Contribution Pension Plans and Mutual Fund Flows

Vol. 16, No.3, 2018 Clemens Sialm, Laura Starks and Hanjiang Zhang Defined contribution (DC) pension plans constitute an important component of mutual fund assets. Flows into DC plans depend on the decisions of plan sponsors and plan participants: The sponsors select the investment menus made available to employees and the participants decide how to allocate… Read more

0 comments / 14/06/2018 / the JOIM / Archives, Articles

A New Approach to Goals-Based Wealth Management

Vol. 16, No.3, 2018 Sanjiv R. Das, Daniel Ostrov, Anand Radhakrishnan and Deep Srivastav We introduce a novel framework for goals-based wealth management (GBWM), where risk is understood as the probability of investors not attaining their goals, not just the standard deviation of investor’s portfolios. Our framework is based on a foundation of developments in… Read more

0 comments / 02/04/2018 / the JOIM / Archives, Surveys and Crossovers

Crypto-Assets Unencrypted

Vol. 16, No. 2, 2018 Seoyoung Kim, Atulya Sarin and Daljeet Virdi With the recent surge in crypto-activity, a natural question arises as to what exactly a “cryptocurrency” is and how to value and assess these digital assets. In this paper, we provide an overview of the history and technology underlying cryptocurrencies. We also present… Read more

0 comments / 02/04/2018 / the JOIM / Archives, Book Reviews

Book Review – A Practitioner’s Guide to Asset Allocation

Vol. 16, No. 2, , 2018 By William Kinlaw, Mark P. Kritzman and David Turkington, reviewed by Sharon Hill View PDF… Read more

0 comments / 02/04/2018 / the JOIM / Archives, Articles

The Dirty Dozen of Valuation Ratios: Is One Better Than Another?

Vol. 16, No. 2, 2018 Eero Pätäri, Ville Karell, Pasi Luukka and Julian Scott Yeomans This paper compares the efficacy of both traditional valuation ratios and an extensive set of related combination criteria in identifying the future best-performing stocks for a comprehensive U.S. sample over the period 1971–2013. Value portfolios formed on different criteria have… Read more

0 comments / 02/04/2018 / the JOIM / Archives, Articles

Evaluation and Ranking of Market Forecasters

Vol. 16, No. 2, 2018 David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein, Amir Salehipour and Marcos López de Prado Many investors rely on market experts and forecasters when making investment decisions, such as when to buy or sell securities. Ranking and grading market forecasters provides investors with metrics on which they may choose forecasters with the… Read more

0 comments / 02/04/2018 / the JOIM / Archives, Articles

Common Factors in Corporate Bond Returns

Vol. 16, No. 2, 2018 Ronen Israel, Diogo Palhares and Scott Richardson We find that four well-known characteristics (carry, defensive, momentum, and value) explain a significant portion of the cross-sectional variation in corporate bond excess returns. These characteristics have positive risk-adjusted expected returns and are not subsumed by traditional market premia or respective equity anomalies… Read more

0 comments / 02/04/2018 / the JOIM / Archives, Insight

Insights – Complete and Incomplete FinTech Platforms

Vol. 16, No. 2, 2018 Vasant Dhar and Roger M. Stein A major consequence of the Internet era is the emergence of complex “platforms” that combine technology and process in new ways that often disrupt existing industry structures and blur industry boundaries. These platforms allow easy participation that often strengthens and extends network effects, while… Read more

0 comments / 16/01/2018 / the JOIM / Archives, Practitioner’s Digest

Practitioner’s Digest

Volume 16, No. 1, 2018 Practitioner’s Digest View PDF… Read more

0 comments / 16/01/2018 / the JOIM / Archives, Book Reviews

Book Review – Portfolio Construction, Measurement, and Efficiency Essays in Honor of Jack Treynor

Volume 16, No. 1, 2018 Portfolio Construction, Measurement, and Efficiency Essays in Honor of Jack Treynor By John B. Guerard (Review by Savannah Smith) View PDF… Read more

0 comments / 16/01/2018 / the JOIM / Archives, Articles

Carbon Footprint and Productivity: Does the “E” in ESG Capture Efficiency

Volume 16, No. 1, 2018 Gerald T. Garvey, Mohanaraman Iyer and Joanna Nash This paper analyses the now-popular carbon ratio (emissions relative to sales) as a way to select stocks. We document that reduced carbon ratios are associated with stronger future profitability and positive stock returns in a global universe of stocks. But why? The… Read more

0 comments / 16/01/2018 / the JOIM / Archives, Articles

A Blueprint for Integrating ESG into Equity Portfolios

Volume 16, No. 1, 2018 Jennifer Bender, Todd Bridges, Chen He, Anna Lester and Xiaole Sun Environmental, social and governance (ESG) offers a source of new and potentially valuable information for investors, impacting both potential returns and risk. Growing data availability has created the opportunity to integrate ESG into equity portfolios for a variety of… Read more

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