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There is an annuity puzzle in that the actual allocation by individuals to annuities is low. Longevity bonds, to hedge overall economy-wide mortality risk, have been proposed, but these bonds have challenges and the proponents have not shown how governments are hedged. This paper recommends that...
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Investment managers require a consistent asset pricing model, asset allocation recommendations and risk-adjusted performance measures (or the “three facets of investing”) to be effective in managing portfolios. Incorporating three critical realities of investing into these models (i.e., that...
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The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) has been the backbone of asset market finance even though many academic studies have revealed its limitations, both theoretical and empirical. This paper argues that including liability or benchmark considerations in investment decisions may provide a...
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Investors live in a multi-period, volatile world and base their decisions on theories of asset pricing, and asset allocation, often derived from a single period model. They make assumptions about asset returns and volatilities and use optimizers to set their long term allocations, and often...
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Kahneman-Tversky's (KT) seminal paper on Prospect Theory (PT) found that individuals placed value on changes in wealth. Individuals appeared to display different reactions to gains and losses and, displayed loss aversion, which depended on the distance from a “critical value”. These two...
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The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) has been the backbone of asset market finance, even though many academic studies have revealed its limitations, both theoretical and empirical. This paper argues that including liability or benchmark considerations in investment decisions may provide a...
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