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hedging approach can eliminate nearly 90 percent of the tracking error of more conventional inflation hedging strategies. We … also find that long-short positions in equities play a dominant role in the effective hedging of inflation risk over …We propose a new approach to constructing inflation tracking portfolios. The key to this approach is the insight that …
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We study the inflation hedging ability of individual stocks. While the poor inflation hedging ability of the aggregate … inflation. Stocks with good inflation-hedging abilities since 1990 have had higher returns, on average, than stocks with low … inflation betas and tend to be drawn from the Oil and Gas and Technology sectors. However, we show that there is substantial …
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hedging portfolio, which allows them to hedge the dynamic risk. This implies that trading volume of individual assets exhibit … a two-factor structure, and their factor loadings depend on their weights in the hedging portfolio. This allows us to … empirically identify the hedging portfolio using volume data. We then test the two properties of the hedging portfolio: its return …
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The popular perception is that hedge funds follow a reasonably well defined market-neutral investment style. While this long-short investment strategy may have characterized the first hedge funds, today hedge funds are a reasonably heterogeneous group. They are better defined in terms of their...
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, but not at long horizons. At horizons of several years, complete hedging not only does not lower return variance, it … apparent causes, and investigates their implications for hedging practice …
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. We show that this approach yields parsimonious and industry-balanced portfolios that perform well in hedging innovations … in climate news both in-sample and out-of-sample. The resulting hedge portfolios outperform alternative hedging …
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risks. Portfolios hedging macro uncertainty have historically earned zero or even significantly positive returns, while …
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In the finance literature, a common practice is to create factor-portfolios by sorting on characteristics (such as book-to-market, profitability or investment) associated with average returns. The goal of this exercise is to create a parsimonious set of factor-portfolios that explain the...
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Over the period 1975 to 2005, the US dollar (particularly in relation to the Canadian dollar) and the euro and Swiss franc (particularly in the second half of the period) have moved against world equity markets. Thus these currencies should be attractive to risk-minimizing global equity...
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when the investor has access to nominal bonds and a stock portfolio. In the presence of unhedgeable inflation risk, there … failure of the expectations hypothesis seen in the data. We extend this model to account for time-varying expected inflation …, and estimate the model with both inflation and term structure data. The estimates imply that the bond portfolio for the …
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