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Testing Portfolio Efficiency with Conditioning Information

Ferson, Wayne E. - 2006

We develop asset pricing models' implications for portfolio efficiency when there is conditioning information in the form of a set of lagged instruments. A model of expected returns identifies a portfolio that should be minimum variance efficient with respect to the conditioning information. Our...

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Performance Evaluation with Stochastic Discount Factors

Farnsworth, Heber - 2002

managers. By constructing artificial mutual funds with known levels of investment ability, we evaluate a large set of SDF …

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Conditioning Manager Alphas on Economic Information : Another Look at the Persistence of Performance

Christopherson, Jon A. - 1996

This paper evaluates persistence in the performance of institutional equity managers. We build on recent work on … investment performance of pension fund managers persists over time. A conditional approach is able to better detect this … especially concentrated in the managers with negative prior-period conditional alphas. " …

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Sources of Risk and Expected Returns in Global Equity Markets

Ferson, Wayne E. - 1994

This paper empirically examines multifactor asset pricing models for the returns and expected returns on eighteen national equity markets. The factors are chosen to measure global economic risks. Although previous studies do not reject the unconditional mean- variance efficiency of a world...

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