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very important for the risk-return characteristics of the resulting portfolios and their sensitivities to common risk … design elements of low-beta strategies too. If smaller firms are excluded, risk-adjusted returns of low-beta strategies can …
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The beta dispersion, which is the spread of betas on a stock market, can be interpreted as a measure of market vulnerability. This study examines the economic idea of the beta dispersion and its application as a market return predictor. Based on the empirical beta dispersion observed in the US...
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"Systematic Downside Risk" (SDR) is defined to characterize this asymmetry in the comovement of betas. This indicator negatively …
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By choosing investment strategies that intentionally create exposure to factor betas, investors may be obtaining uncompensated risks. We show across a wide variety of factors and geographical markets that factors constructed from fundamental characteristics have earned high returns, whereas...
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We study consumption-portfolio and asset pricing frameworks with recursive preferences and unspanned risk. We show that … with recursive preferences and unspanned risk. Our setting is not restricted to affine asset price dynamics. Numerical …
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We implement a long-horizon static and dynamic portfolio allocation involving a risk-free and a risky asset. This model …
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market instruments. Using intergenerational risk sharing arrangements, risks can be allocated better across the various …
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Deriving an optimal asset allocation for institutional investors hinges crucially on the quality of inputs used in the optimization. If the mean vector and the covariance matrix are known with certainty, the classical mean-variance optimization of Markowitz (1952) produces optimal portfolios....
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We merge the literature on downside return risk and liquidity risk and introduce the concept of extreme downside … same time when the market liquidity (return) is lowest. This effect is not driven by linear or downside liquidity risk or … extreme downside return risk and is mainly driven by more recent years. There is no premium for stocks whose liquidity is …
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Empirical measures of world consumption growth risk have failed to rationalize the cross-section of country equity … returns. We propose a new factor, termed "the global consumption factor", to explain the patterns in risk premiums on … from 47 developed and emerging market countries over a four-decade period. Our risk factor reflects changes in the cross …
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