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The purpose of this study is to develop an efficient strategy for managing fixed-income portfolios in crisis periods. We use the volatility ratio model of Briere and Szafarz (2008) and the Expected Tail Loss (ETL) approach of Litzenberger and Modest (2008). Our methodology is applied to U.S. and...
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The paper empirically analyzes stock market integration and the benefit possibilities of international portfolio diversification across the Southeast Asia (ASEAN) and U.S. equity markets. It employs daily sample of 6 ASEAN equity market indices and S&P 500 index as a proxy of U.S. market index...
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We analyze how interest rates affect cross-border portfolio investments. Data on U.S. bond holdings by foreign …
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The risk-taking effects of low interest rates, now prevailing in many advanced countries, "search-for-yield," can be hard to analyze due to both a paucity of data and challenges in identification. Unique, security-level data on portfolio investment into the United States allow us to overcome...
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We harvest factors—broad and persistent sources of returns—in US core fixed income in three ways. First, we take strategic over and underweight positions in certain macro factors. While strategic overweights to rates, or duration, and credit factors have historically resulted in...
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debt securities. We also find a strong negative correlation between the foreign share of the U.S. financial bond portfolio … notably Australia and Canada). Lastly, these developments have led to a decline in home bias in the U.S. financial bond …
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number of bond funds with: both positive gross-of-fee alpha and positive net-of-fee alpha performance; and also a reduction … in funds with negative-alpha performance. This result indicates that many US bond fund managers anticipated the … Quantitative Easing that followed the GFC, positioned their bond funds against their benchmarks accordingly and added value to …
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Growing experimental evidence suggests that loss aversion plays an important role in asset allocation decisions. We study the asset allocation of a linear loss-averse (LA) investor and compare the optimal LA portfolio to the more traditional optimal mean-variance (MV) and conditional...
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