Vol. 22, No. 3, 2024 by Mark Kritzman (Reviewed by Yaoyun Zhang) View PDF… Read more
2024
Forecasting the Distribution of Option Returns
Vol. 22, No. 3, 2024 Leandro Gomes, Roni Israelov and Bryan Kelly We propose a method for constructing conditional option return distributions. In our model, uncertainty about the future option return has two sources: Changes in the position and shape of the implied volatility surface that shift option values (holding moneyness and maturity fixed), and… Read more
The Options-Inferred Equity Premium and the Slippery Slope of the Negative Correlation Condition
Vol. 22, No. 3, 2024 Gurdip Bakshi, John Crosby, Xiaohui Gao, Jinming Xue and Wei Zhou The negative correlation condition (NCC) of Martin (2017) is that covPt (MT RT,RT )≤ 0 for all MT, where MT is the SDF and RT is the gross market return. He employs this assumption to derive a lower bound… Read more
Stock Market Insurance Prices, BL Skew, Conditional Marginal Utilities and the Equity Risk Premium
Vol. 22, No. 3, 2024 Douglas T. Breeden Option prices contain information about implicit state prices. In their recent article, Breeden and Litzenberger (B-L, 2022) demonstrated how option pricesin bond marketsfrom interest rate cap and floor price data can be used to identify the impacts of central bank policies on the distribution of state prices… Read more
Equivalent Expectation Measures for Risk and Return Analysis of Contingent Claims
Vol. 22, No. 3, 2024 Sanjay K. Nawalkha and Xiaoyang Zhuo Nearly half-a-century after the advent of equivalent martingale measures (EMMs), Nawalkha and Zhuo (2022, 2023) generalize these measures to obtain equivalent expectation measures (EEMs) for analyzing risk and return of portfolios of contingent claims over a finite horizon date. The new measures allow the… Read more
About Fischer Black
Vol. 22, No. 3, 2024 Emanuel Derman This speech is based on the chapter about Fischer Black in my 2004 book My Life as a Quant. View PDF… Read more
Retirement Security Bonds
Vol. 22, No. 3, 2024 Robert C. Merton 50th Anniversary Speech by Nobel Laureate Robert C. Merton December 1, 2023 CISDM, UMass Amherst View PDF… Read more
Introduction
Vol. 22, No. 3, 2024 Douglas Breeden, John Hull and Sanjay Nawalkha View PDF… Read more
Letter from the Editor
Vol. 22, No. 3, 2024 View PDF… Read more
Optimal Portfolio Choice with Absorbing Markov Chains: Application to Markets that May Potentially Decouple
Vol. 22, No. 2, 2024 by Andrew Ang, Henry Shen, Jeff Shen and Rui Zhao We develop a model of optimal asset allocation with a market that has the potential to decouple. There are three Markov regimes: a regime where the market remains fully investable, a second regime where the market may become potentially decouple… Read more
Extreme Weather and Retirement Savings
Vol. 22, No. 2, 2024 by Ted Daverman, Joshua Kazdin, Michael Pensky and Fiona Sloof In this paper, we discuss the impact of extreme weather on US families with a specific focus on household finances. We first derive a life-cycle model of consumption, then introduce climate change-oriented consumption shocks as an additional expense which is… Read more
Night Moves: Is the Overnight Drift the Grandmother of all Market Anomalies?
Vol. 22, No. 2, 2024 by Victor Haghani, Vladimir Ragulin and Richard Dewey Our research in single name stocks suggests that retail trading likely explains the phenomenon of outsized overnight returns at both the level of the overall stock market, and that of individual stocks. We find that the effect exists at the index level… Read more
Full-Scale Currency Hedging
Vol. 22, No. 2, 2024 by Megan Czasonis, Mark Kritzman and David Turkington After years of spirited debate, most investors agree that to minimize the risk currencies add to a portfolio they should hedge its currency exposures based on its betas relative to the currencies to which it is exposed. However, this notion of hedging… Read more
AI Applications in Mass Customization: From Predictive Analytics to Generative AI.
Vol. 22, No. 2, 2024 by Seoyoung Kim “Case Studies” presents a case pertinent to contemporary issues and events in investment management. Insightful and provocative questions are posed at the end of each case to challenge the reader. Each case is an invitation to the critical thinking and pragmatic problem solving that are so fundamental… Read more
Book Review – The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival
Vol. 22, No. 2, 2024 by Mark Kritzman (Reviewed by Junming Cui) View PDF… Read more
Practitioner’s Digest
Vol. 22, No. 2, 2024 View PDF… Read more
Book Review – Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
Vol. 22, No. 1, 2024 by Mo Gawdat (Reviewed by Jana Minn, Senior Quantitative Researcher, State Street Associates) View PDF… Read more
Case Study – Managing Market Downturns with NAV Loans
Vol. 22, No. 1, 2024 Ivan Asensio and Seoyoung Kim “Case Studies” presents a case pertinent to contemporary issues and events in investment management. Insightful and provocative questions are posed at the end of each case to challenge the reader. Each case is an invitation to the critical thinking and pragmatic problem solving that are… Read more
Surveys And Crossover – Unrealistic Expectations: The Futility of Precisely Estimating a Stock’s Expected Return
Vol. 22, No. 1, 2024 Sanjiv R. Das and Daniel Ostrov …dedicated to the memory of Mark S. Joshi, who worked to make results like these better known We reprise the result that even underthe best circumstances, it is impossible to use observed return data for a stock to determine its expected return with any… Read more
Biotech Asset Valuation Methods: A Practitioner’s Guide
Vol. 22, No. 1, 2024 Amitabh Chandra and Sumon Mazumdar Biotech innovations lead to the development of life-saving drugs and vaccines. However, bringing a new drug to market is an expensive,risky, and time-consuming process. According to one survey, the probability that a drug that has completed pre-clinical trials, would successfully pass all three stages of… Read more