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Volatility is usually considered as a synonym for risk. Mainstream financial theory states that higher portfolio … framework that encompasses various investment styles and portfolio construction methodologies. Modern Portfolio Theory is a one … theory. We show that Markowitz portfolios and Warren Buffett's investment style are valid special cases of optimal growth …
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<p>This document contains presentation slides for the American Finance Association's Presidential Address of January 4, 2020. The address is based on the paper "Social Transmission Bias in Economics and Finance."</p><p>The paper: "https://ssrn.com/abstract=3550880" https://ssrn.com/abstract=3550880...</p>
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<p>I discuss a new intellectual paradigm, social economics and finance: the study of the social processes that shape economic thinking and behavior. This emerging field recognizes that people observe and talk to each other. A key, underexploited building block of social economics and finance is...</p>
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Present market instabilities have prompted great interest on the characteristics of specific portfolios such as minimum variance and equally- weighted risk contribution portfolios as these portfolios do not rely on the estimate of expected returns. Indeed, in turmoil periods traditional market...
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Many sophisticated investors rely on scenario analysis to select a portfolio. These investors define prospective economic scenarios, assign probabilities to them, translate the scenarios into expected asset class returns, and select the portfolio with the highest expected return or expected...
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use comparable beta sources, we used Modern Portfolio Theory as an analytical framework to demonstrate some well …
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We construct portfolios based on characteristic weights and develop a novel way to measure capacity of these portfolios to absorb capital. Our estimates suggest that portfolio capacity is the highest for fundamental-weights, whereas portfolios based on momentum, equal risk budget, and equal...
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Duration is an important parameter used by investors to choose between different investment opportunities in financial economics. While the concept of duration is usually associated with fixed-income assets, its expansion to the equity assets is becoming more relevant in the recent period, due...
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portfolio theory (MPT) in the context of the growth of large institutional investors. We examine the many so-called risk …
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Growth-Trend (GT) timing from Philosophical Economics is a brilliant timing strategy which only signals a bear market when both the trend in the unemployment (UE) rate and the SP500 index are bearish. As a result, it captures most market downturns while switching to cash in less than 15% of the...
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