In this paper we investigate the risk-adjusted performance of US sector portfolios and sector rotation strategy using the alphas from the Fama-French five factor model. We find that five-factor model fits better the returns of US sector portfolios than the three factor model, but that...

The paper examines the return pattern of the Indian stock market and proposes a model for long term investors by maximizing and minimizing the risk. The rolling compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of the flagship S&P BSE SENSEX index as well as CNX Nifty index is calculated over various...

In investment, particularly in the portfolio management, the risk and returns are two crucial measures in making investment decisions. This paper attempts to provide a brief theoretical explanation with examples on determining the returns and associated risk of shares, and of the portfolio of...

In this paper we introduce a new jump-diffusion model for stock prices, which takes into account over and under-reaction of the market to incoming news. The jumps' impact on the assets dynamics is twofold: on one hand we use a Poisson process as a driver to obtain discontinuous trajectories and...

This article is to show a paradox in the mean variance model for portfolio selection when the transaction costs are included. While a transaction cost decreases the mean of the rate of return of an investment, it also decreases its variance. Thus, for individuals with strong risk aversion, it is...

Part I of this two-part series touched upon the difficulty of using standard measures to evaluate a number of hedge fund strategies. After reviewing these difficulties, this paper will discuss the current state-of-the-art methodology in this area. The paper will conclude that if one has an...

This paper touches upon the quantitative and modeling shortfalls of the Sharpe ratio and other related Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) measures when used to evaluate alternative investments. These shortfalls can best be appreciated once one understands the common nature of how most...

We examine whether the value of active investment management can exceed its cost, and find that it can, by a substantial margin. We consider the 0.67% average cost estimate in French (2008), comparing it versus the expected value of a known active investment strategy. For a “passive”...

Some have argued that there is an accelerating convergence between the hedge fund industry and traditional institutional fund management. This article will argue the opposite: that in a very fundamental way, these two investment industries are still quite distinct.This article will argue that...

Hedge funds do not easily fit into the current way institutions go about investing. Based on a survey of recent academic and practitioner research, this article reviews six competing frameworks for how to incorporate hedge funds in institutional portfolios. Each framework has very different...