We study the optimal consumption and portfolio choice problem over an individual's life-cycle taking into account annuity risk at retirement. Optimally, the investor allocates wealth at retirement to nominal, inflation-linked, and variable annuities and conditions this choice on the state of the...

This article implements the minimum variance frontier for the stochastic discount factor, according to both Hansen and Jagannathan (1991) and Cochrane and Hansen (1992), for the Brazilian stock market. Two approaches are considered in terms of equity returns and equity premium, respectively, the...

This study examines the performance of sixteen different hedge fund and commodity fund investment styles during rising and falling stock prices over the period 1990:01 through 1998:08. Since a primary motivation for investing in hedge funds and commodity funds is to diversify against falling...

The term structure of interest rates gives the relationship between the yield on an investment and the term to maturity of the investment. Since the term structure is typically measured using default-free, continuously-compounded, annualized zero-coupon yields, it is not directly observable from...

In a recent paper, NBZ [2010] present a multidimensional transform for generating path-independent trees for pricing American options under low dimensional stochastic volatility models. For this class of models, this approach has higher accuracy than the GARCH tree method of Ritchken and Trevor...

We study the impact of regulations on the investment decisions of a defined benefits pension plan. We assess the influence of ex ante (preventive) and ex post (punitive) risk constraints on the gains to dynamic, as opposed to myopic, decision making. We find that preventive measures, such as...

We study an institutional investment problem in which a centralized decision maker, the Chief Investment Officer (CIO), for example, employs multiple asset managers to implement and execute investment strategies in separate asset classes. The CIO allocates capital to the managers who, in turn,...

This study examines the performance of sixteen different hedge fund and commodity fund investment styles during rising and falling stock prices over the period 1990:01 through 1998:08. Since a primary motivation for investing in hedge funds and commodity funds is to diversify against falling...

Previous research has concluded that prespecified asset allocations used by many Section 529 college savings plans are not only suboptimal, but that they are also so conservative that many investors would do better by avoiding such plans entirely. Recent changes in the tax code and in the rules...

There has been a substantial amount of research on whether mutual funds, and to a lesser extent, hedge funds have the ability to time the market. All of these studies have focused on market timing in the sense that they can correctly position their portfolios for a positive or negative movement...