This study examines the practical performance of the multiple priors optimal portfolio based on the mean-variance preference. The multiple priors optimal portfolio is designed to be robust to model uncertainty, also known as ambiguity. A back test finds two properties: the multiple priors...

Does economic policy uncertainty affect household stockholding? To answer this question we create a novel measure of household exposure to economic policy uncertainty news by combining survey information on the hours a household spends in reading newspapers and the frequency of such news in the...

In this article, we advance the use of factor investing across multiple asset classes. It turns out that style factors well established in the equity domain – such as value, momentum or quality – do extend to other asset classes as well. Even more so, multi-asset multi-factors significantly...

Story-telling helps to define the human experience. Do people also use narratives to make sense of, and to act on, financial information? Three studies demonstrate that people's investment predictions and choices instead are by narrative thinking. Whereas neoclassical financial theory maintains...

2020 has been a time of unprecedented change. Financial markets and consumer confidence have collapsed. The unemployment rate has reached double digits; the United States appears headed into a recession. Financial planning is in more demand as individuals and financial markets react to the...

In the presence of conditional charity, universities must undertake costly revenue raising to qualify as prospective recipients of private donations. This paper considers the donation portfolios of U.S. universities between 2003 and 2014 to investigate whether a strategy that includes beliefs...

There has been considerable research into dynamic global tactical asset allocation (GTAA) strategies driven by simple measures of Valuation and Momentum applied to a baseline balanced portfolio of equities and fixed income (see Blitz and van Vliet 2008, Wang and Kochard 2011, Gnedenko and Yelnik...

This paper studies the aggregation of a downside risk measure introduced by Fishburn (1977). Properties of aggregated downside risk are examined and compared to classical risk measures such as standard deviation and value-at-risk. The notion of downside-efficient portfolios that maximize the...

I introduce a method of portfolio selection based on the idea that investment risk is not having enough wealth when you need it. Not having enough wealth translates into a required return. When you need wealth translates into an investment horizon. These two ingredients, when combined with...