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In this paper we introduce the notion of themes as an additional investment dimension beyond asset classes, regions …
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theory. I cannot recommend enough the insights provided in Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis, 8/e, by Edwin …The core of the theory behind portfolio construction was developed in 1956 by Harry Markowitz. Many pages have been … the original integrity behind Markowitz's insights and addresses many of the criticisms of the theory …
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When the planning horizon is long, and the safe asset grows indefinitely, iso-elastic portfolios are nearly optimal for investors who are close to iso-elastic for high wealth, and not too risk averse for low wealth. We prove this result in a general arbitrage-free, frictionless, semi-martingale...
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American university and college endowments now hold close to one-third of their portfolios in private equity and hedge funds. We estimate the implied beliefs of endowments about alternative assets' returns relative to equities and bonds. At the end of 2012, the typical endowment believes that...
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We dissect the realized performance of factor-based equity portfolios using a characteristics-based multi-factor return model. We show that generic single-factor portfolios, which invest in stocks with high scores on one particular factor, are sub-optimal because they ignore the possibility that...
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The special, dual nature of property as both a consumption and an investment goodmakes it salient for portfolio choice …. In fact, the theoretical literature predicts a con-straint imposed by property on investment and the empirical literature … differentiate between owner-occupied and investment property. Withreference to the predictions of a stochastic control model, we …
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evolution of modern portfolio theory are discussed. A new, 'next economy' methodology is proposed to practically apply modern … realities to portfolios in meaningful ways. Existing yet insufficient attempts to modify portfolio theory to address climate and …
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, to name the most famous - have become increasingly popular in the investment industry due to their return-agnostic and …
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inheritance) and a number of units of human capital.Human capital is measured in efficiency units, as in the theory of growth. By … contrast to the theory of growth, efficiency units increase as the result of training and education. Training is a costly …
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