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This paper investigates how the nature of risk changes as investment horizon lengthens, and what it means for investors … equities, bonds and cash may vary with horizon is also discussed, including highlighting why fixed income may not be a low risk …
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The risk conscious investor is defined as the maximizer of a conservative valuation or dynamically a nonlinear …
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Many institutional investors depend on the returns they generate to fund their operations and liabilities. How do these investors' financial conditions affect the management of their portfolios? We address this issue using the insurance industry because insurers are large investors for which...
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This article presents various techniques for downside risk control of an emerging markets equity index or long only … fund. We evaluate different risk adjusted strategies applied to dynamic asset allocation between an emerging markets equity … by adjusting the allocation to the equity index according to risk levels measured either by volatility or tail risk using …
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significant exposures to equity markets but without appropriate risk control tools. Indeed, within just a few weeks a number of … downside risk mitigation, which requires both accurate risk measurement tools and effective risk management strategies.In this …
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The concept of enterprise risk management will be examined in the context of multi-strategy hedge funds and fund of … hedge funds. This paper seeks to demonstrate that risk at these organizations has to be considered holistically and not in …
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We study the interplay between tenure decisions, stock market investment and the public social security system. Housing equity not only serves a dual purpose as a consumption good and as an asset, but also provides insurance to buffer various risks in retirement. Our life cycle model captures...
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variables in stock markets, we find that evolving trading models based on fundamental variables substantially reduce the risk of … investing in stocks. This reduction is so generous that the risk-adjusted return obtained following these fundamental variables … the technical indicators we analyze do not show any predicting value neither in terms of return or risk. We observe the …
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The early work of Tobin (1958) showed that portfolio allocation decisions can be reduced to a two stage process: first decide the relative allocation of assets across the risky assets, and second decide how to divide total wealth between the risky assets and the safe asset. This so called...
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