We discuss various performance measures of beta hedging and offer a new synthetic criterion that accounts for both risk-adjusted return and loss of the trading strategy. We consider two long portfolios hedged by the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) that mimics the S&P 500 index. The first portfolio...

"This book will satisfy the demand among college majors in Finance and Financial Engineering, and mathematically-versed practitioners for description of both the classical approaches to equity investing and new investment strategies scattered in the periodic literature. Besides the major...

Mean variance portfolio theory is expanded to accommodate investors' preferences for the portfolio ESG value (PESGV). Namely, PESGV is added to the minimizing objective function so that portfolio weights are simultaneously optimized in terms of returns, risk (volatility), and PESGV. PESGV is...