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Personal Pensions with Risk sharing: Affordable, Adequate and Stable Private Pensions in Europe

Bovenberg, A Lans; Nijman, Theo E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

withdrawal of employers and external insurers as risk bearers of systematic financial and longevity risks. Partly because of … pension: the Personal Pension with Risk sharing (PPR). By unbundling and valuing the investment, (dis)saving, insurance and … risk-sharing functions of pensions, PPRs allow risk management and (dis)saving to be customized to the specific features of …

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Are Stocks Really Less Volatile in the Long Run?

Pástor, Luboš; Stambaugh, Robert F. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Conventional wisdom views stocks as less volatile over long horizons than over short horizons due to mean reversion induced by return predictability. In contrast, we find stocks are substantially more volatile over long horizons from an investor's perspective. This perspective recognizes that...

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Carry

Koijen, Ralph; Moskowitz, Tobias J; Pedersen, Lasse Heje; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

generalized version of the uncovered interest rate parity and expectations hypothesis in favor of models with varying risk premia …

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Improving Portfolio Selection Using Option-Implied Volatility and Skewness

DeMiguel, Victor; Plyakha, Yuliya; Uppal, Raman; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

contained in the volatility risk premium and option-implied skewness increases substantially Sharpe ratios and certainty …

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Heterogeneity of Investors and Asset Pricing in a Risk-Value World

Franke, Günter; Weber, Martin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Paper, they are derived from risk-value models that generalize the Markowitz-model. We use a behaviourally based risk … measure with an endogenous or exogenous benchmark. If the risk measure is modelled by a negative HARA-function, then sharing … variance and kurtosis of the risk-neutral probability distribution of the aggregate pay-off. …

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Performance Maximization of Actively Managed Funds

Guasoni, Paolo; Huberman, Gur; Wang, Zhenyu - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Ratios that indicate the statistical significance of a fund’s alpha typically appraise its performance. A growing literature suggests that even in the absence of any ability to predict returns, holding options positions on the benchmark assets or trading frequently can significantly enhance...

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Individual Investor Activity and Performance

Dahlquist, Magnus; Martinez, José Vicente; Söderlind, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We examine the activity and performance of a large panel of individual investors (approximately 70,000 investors and their daily returns over the 2000 to 2010 period) in Sweden's Premium Pension System. We document strong inertia in individuals' choices and changes of mutual funds. We find that...

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Buffett’s Alpha

Frazzini, Andrea; Kabiller, David; Pedersen, Lasse Heje - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

more than 30 years, and Berkshire has a significant alpha to traditional risk factors. However, we find that the alpha …

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Asset Allocation and Monetary Policy: Evidence from the Eurozone

Hau, Harald; Lai, Sandy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

market flows. In line with a powerful risk-shifting channel, we find that fund investors in countries with decreased real …

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The Impact of Hedge Funds on Asset Markets

Kruttli, Mathias; Patton, Andrew J; Ramadorai, Tarun - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper provides empirical evidence of the impact of hedge funds on asset markets. We construct a simple measure of the aggregate illiquidity of hedge fund portfolios, and show that it has strong in- and out-of-sample forecasting power for 72 portfolios of international equities, corporate...

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