Motivated by the surge in popularity of passive hedge fund investments, the present article discusses the concept of quot;alternative betaquot; and its implications for the hedge fund industry. The article covers a variety of topics, ranging from the basic rationale for hedge fund replication to...

The English version of this paper can be found at "http://ssrn.com/abstract=3247865" http://ssrn.com/abstract=3247865.Spanish Abstract: Este libro proporciona descripciones detalladas, que incluyen más de 550 fórmulas matemáticas, para más de 150 estrategias de trading para una gran cantidad...

We examine professional connections among executives and analysts formed through overlapping historical employment. Analysts with professional connections to coverage firms have more accurate earnings forecasts, and issue more informative buy and sell recommendations. These analysts are more...

This paper reports aggregate statistics on securities lending activity based on a recently concluded pilot data collection by staff from the Office of Financial Research (OFR), the Federal Reserve System, and staff from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In its annual reports, the...

Administration of defined contribution retirement plans is generally outsourced by plan sponsors to third-party financial institutions, resulting in two primary types of plan fees. While investment fund fees in defined contribution plans have been heavily scrutinized, the administrative fees...

Historical VaR, CVaR and ES (Expected Shortfall) to LIQUIDATION Software is a model characterized by its straightforwardness, allowing regulators measure risk using a standard database of primitive factors and portfolio positions only, leaving little error margin in comparing market risk for...

This paper examines the pattern of order aggressiveness, and the determinants of this pattern for institutional and retail brokers in the interval around monetary policy announcements. Utilizing a high-frequency dataset, with broker identifiers for each order submitted on the ASX over the period...

The concept of a market portfolio plays an important role in many financial theories and models. Knowledge of each asset's share of the invested capital markets is both useful information and a good starting point for investors considering the appropriate allocation to the asset. In our latest...

In the United States and in several other wealthy countries, the demographic and financial problems facing retirees are (finally) getting attention as the costs grow so large that they clearly will impact every member of society through tax hikes, cuts in services or both. Long-term solutions at...

During the last two decades of the twentieth century, the investing world saw declining dividend and bond yields, with prices generally moving higher for both equities and bonds over the period. In the early years of this century, investors seemed to belittle the importance of income as a...